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Ontario’s best rieslings: a collective tasting on Spotlight Toronto (and two extra tasting notes)

Posted by winecase on Nov 20, 2009 in Viticulture, Wine & Beer, Wine Tasting

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 [...]

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Harvesting in Prince Edward County, just in time for new rules on Ontario wines

Posted by winecase on Oct 15, 2009 in Viticulture, Wine & Beer, Wine Tasting

I’d call that an auspicious sign. Just as I was heading to the vineyards of Prince Edward County to harvest chardonnay at Closson Chase, on Tuesday evening, the Ontario government came out with new rules governing VQA and Cellared in Canada wines.
These new rules give a push forward to VQA wines by introducing financial support – [...]

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Tasting note: Cave Spring 1995 Beamsville Bench Riesling Icewine, Niagara Peninsula VQA

Posted by winecase on Sep 24, 2009 in Viticulture, Wine & Beer, Wine Tasting

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 [...]

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