Posted by winecase on Nov 29, 2009 in
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An article on the Wine Law web site, an extremely interesting source on everything legal about how wine is sold (or not sold) within Canada, caused a bit of excitement among Canadian wine tweeps, today, as it revealed that FedEx has begun shipping wine directly from the United States to Canada – or at least, [...]
Tags: Alberta, BCLDB, British Columbia, California, Canada, Direct purchase, FedEx, LCBO, Ontario, provincial monopolies, Rod Phillips, shipping wine, wine, Wine Reviews, Wine Tasting, wine trade, Winelaw, wineries
Posted by winecase on Nov 20, 2009 in
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It’s nice when social media pushes the idea of social forward, encouraging collective thinking and group efforts. Like this Ontario riesling project that was proposed to a small group of wine writers and professionals by Rick Van Sickle, of the St Catharines Standard, and Suresh Doss, of Spotlight Toronto.
Six writers, including this guy who does [...]
Tags: Canada, Canadian wine, Cave Spring, Creekside, Hidden Bench, Niagara, Ontario, Rick Van Sickle, Riesling, Spotlight Toronto, Suresh Doss, tasting, Thirty Bench, VQA, white wine, wine, Wine Reviews, Wine Tasting
Posted by winecase on Oct 12, 2009 in
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Note: I was originally hoping to post this article on Friday, but an overly busy schedule and a forgotten note pad with essential quotes are causing its publication to coincide with the beginning of the second Regional Wine Week, championed by Drinklocalwine.com. At first, I was disappointed about this coincidence, as I was planning to [...]
Tags: BC Liquor Distribution Branch, British Columbia, Bruce Walker, Canada, Canadian Vintners Association, Canadian wine, Cellared in Canada, Grape Growers of Ontario, LCBO, marketing board, Niagara, Ontario, Vincor, wine, Wine Council of Ontario, Wine Reviews, Wine Tasting
Posted by winecase on Sep 24, 2009 in
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A little oxydation can be a good thing, now and then. Not only for all these wonderful, “geeky” wines from Jura, as Eric Asimov points out in his New York Times column this week (where he rightly praises the Ganevat Trousseau as a great steak wine… but that’s another story). It can even be true [...]
Tags: 1995, Beamsville Bench, Canada, Cave Spring, Eric Asimov, Ganevat, icewine, Jura, New York Times, Niagara, Ontario, oxydation, Riesling, tasting, VQA, wine, Wine Reviews, Wine Tasting