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Top 5 Sparkling at the LCBO
Anthonij Rupert L'ormarins Blanc De Blancs 2013, Traditional Method, Wo South Africa
Western Cape, South Africa
15681
Blue Mountain Gold Label Brut Sparkling, Traditional Method, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia
Canada
206326
If I Could Buy Only One – January 9th VINTAGES Release
If you could buy only one wine from this release, which one would it be and why? Nals Margreid Punggl 2018 Pinot Grigio, Südtirol-Alto Adige, Italy $29.95, Mondo Vino David Lawrason – For most of my career I have been only moderately enthusiastic about Italian pinot grigio as a genre. Because the vast majority, even […] More
Buyers’ Guide to VINTAGES January 9th, 2021
John Szabo’s VINTAGES Review January 9th: Smart Buys By John Szabo MS, with notes from Sara d’Amato, David Lawrason and Michael Godel There’s nothing I wish to say about recent world events, at least that would be appropriate here. Rather, let’s escape to a place of simple pleasures, where quality and price line up in […] More
D’Amato & Szabo: Wine Thieves – Episode 16
Green Austria Part 1 The Wine Thieves launch 2021 on a highly positive note: “Green Austria”, the first in a mini-series on Austrian wines. This small country in the heart of Europe has quietly been green, and getting greener for over a century, showing the way towards more responsible, earth-friendly wine production. Austria registered the first […] 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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Sparkling wine is a wine with significant levels of carbon dioxide in it making it fizzy. The classic example of a sparkling wine is Champagne, but many other examples are produced in other countries and regions, such as Cava in Spain, Asti in Italy (the generic Italian term for sparkling wine being Spumante) and Cap Classique in South Africa. In some parts of the world, the word "champagne" is used as a synonym for sparkling wine, although laws in Europe and other countries reserve the word champagne for a specific type from the Champagne region of France.
