Tag Archives: Hidden Bench

Post-TasteCamp North interviews: Adam Japko of Wine Zag

By Remy Charest | Published: May 23, 2011
TasteCamp North, held on both sides of the Niagara river on May 13-15, was a lot of fun and very instructive for the thirty-some wine bloggers and writers present. Pursuing a tradition started by Lenn Thompson for the first two TasteCamps, held in his home turf of New York State, I’ve decided to ask bloggers [...]
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Grape harvest begins in Ontario and New York

By Remy Charest | Published: August 25, 2010
It’s official. The 2010 harvest has begun. Today, August 25, crews at Tawse Winery in the Niagara region have gone into the vineyards to pick grapes for sparkling wine. In Long Island, as reported by the New York Cork Report, harvest started even earlier, with pinot grapes picked for sparkling on Monday at Macari Vineyards. The news
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Ontario’s best rieslings: a collective tasting on Spotlight Toronto (and two extra tasting notes)

By winecase | Published: November 20, 2009
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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A look at the 2008 Canadian Wine Annual (the good and the bad)

By winecase | Published: June 4, 2008
A few days ago, I grabbed a copy of Wine Access magazine’s Canadian Wine Annual for 2008 at my neighborhood news stand. It is a great reference about all that is wine (and fruit wine, and cider, etc.) in Canada, from Newfoundland to British Columbia, and everywhere in between. Some 393 wineries are listed, with [...]
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