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2019 Niagara Homegrown Wine Festival
Raise a glass and toast Niagara’s wine country! June 15-16 & June 22-23 The Niagara Homegrown Wine Festival is the perfect time to celebrate the start of summer. With fresh farm flavours, and everyone heading outdoors, there is no better place than Niagara to enjoy over 14,800 acres of lush vineyards! Award-winning winemakers are eager […] More
Top Values at the LCBO (May 2019)
Big Discounts and Delists at the LCBO; updated Top 50 Your Guide to Best Values, Limited Time Offers & Bonus Air Miles selections at the LCBO – by Steve Thurlow Ten wines joined the Top 50 Best Values List this month; some with big discounts due to delist by LCBO. I have highlighted below eleven […] More
VINTAGES Buyers’ Guide – May 11th
Local Finds, Springtime Rosés, New Zealand Best Buys and Global Gems By Sara d’Amato with notes from Michael Godel It is under wet and windy skies just outside of Lisbon I find myself reflecting upon this week’s VINTAGES release. Michael Godel is, at present, among sunnier skies in Sicily. Over 3,000 kilometres separate us, yet […] More
National Wine Awards of Canada
Discover Canada's best wines! In 2016, 22 judges tasted 1,535 wines from 230 wineries across the country to identify Canada's top wines.
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World Wine Awards of Canada
Seventeen judges tasted 1,000 wines in 21 categories in 2015 to find the world's best wines sold in Canada under $50.
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Rioja is a wine from a region named after the Rio Oja, in northeast Spain. Rioja wines are normally a blend of various grape varieties, and can be either red, white or rose. In whites, the wines are made from viura and verdejo, while in reds, the best-known and most widely-used variety is Tempranillo, blended with garnacha (grenache), graciano, mazuelo and others. Red Riojas often display characteristics of oak and vanilla, due to barrel aging with relatively high proportions of new oak. Red riojas come in various styles, defined according to the length of time spent in barrel, from joven (young) styles to Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva.
