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Top Values at the LCBO (November 2018)
Your Guide to Best Values, Limited Time Offers & Bonus Air Miles selections at the LCBO So many discounts at the LCBO; Updates to Top 50 by Steve Thurlow November will be remembered as one the best months in a long time for value shopping at the LCBO! There are many wines discounted this month […] More
NEW! Exchange One-time Gift Cases
We’re delighted to announce a new Exchange offering to complement our popular quarterly subscription package: one-time gifts. One-time gifts deliver a carefully curated, twelve bottle case (MIXED or ALL RED) to the lucky recipient’s door (with a personalized message) just in time for the holidays. The wines have an average price of about $25/bottle. The WineAlign Exchange taps […] More
If I Could Buy Only One – Nov 10th, 2018 VINTAGES Release
As part of our VINTAGES recap, we asked our critics: “If you could buy only one wine from this release – which one would it be and why?” Our picks from the Nov 10th VINTAGES release: David Lawrason: What a gorgeous pinot! The nose of the{{PremiumStart}} Foxen John Sebastiano Vineyard Pinot Noir 2015 ($55.95) shows such lift and complexity […] 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.
