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Tag Archives: icewine
Post-TasteCamp North interviews: Diane Letulle of the Wine Lover’s Journal
TasteCamp North, held on both the Canadian and the American side 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, [...]
Posted in Canada, Canadian wine, Niagara, Ontario, United States, wine, wine blog Also tagged Château des Charmes, Diane Letulle, Lenn Thompson, New York, Niagara Falls, Riesling, Tastecamp, TasteCamp North interviews, Thirty Bench, Wine Lover's Journal 1 Comment
A case of Canadian wine on Palate Press – and thoughts on the Canadian Wine brand
Busy week on the blogging front for me, as I contributed a sizeable article on Canadian wines for Palate Press, and started The Food Case, the companion food blog to The Wine Case. And that’s not counting the amount of tinkering involved from moving The Wine Case to its new winecase.ca address. Energy-consuming, for sure, [...]
Posted in Canada, Canadian wine, United States, wine and food, wine blog, wine trade Also tagged 13th Street Winery, British Columbia, dry wines, EnRoute, Et Ceteras White, Meritage, Niagara, Nova Scotia, Okanagan, Ontario, Palate Press, Quebec, Ravine vineyard, Southbrook Vineyards, Triomphe Merlot Leave a comment
Tasting note: Cave Spring 1995 Beamsville Bench Riesling Icewine, Niagara Peninsula VQA
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 [...]
Posted in Canada, Niagara, Ontario, Riesling, VQA, tasting Also tagged 1995, Beamsville Bench, Cave Spring, Eric Asimov, Ganevat, Jura, New York Times, oxydation Leave a comment
Canadian Icewine: Quality and Diversity from Coast to Coast
I used to love Canadian Icewine and its less expensive, but often quite as tasty counterpart, the late harvest. And then, for some odd reason, I practically stopped having it.
Over the last few months, however, I drank icewines from Ontario, British Columbia, Québec and Nova Scotia. And baby, I’m back.
Those were fine, fine wines, with [...]
Posted in British Columbia, Canadian wine, Niagara, Ontario, Quebec, dessert wines, tasting, wine Also tagged Benjamin Bridge, Borealis, Inniskillin, Mission Hill, Niagara Peninsula, Nova Scotia, Okanagan Valley, Riesling, Vidal, Vignoble du Marathonien 3 Comments
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Post-TasteCamp North interviews: Jeff Lefevere of Good Grape