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Dan Aykroyd is coming to Montreal. Does his wine taste funny?
If I was in Montreal, I’d be tempted to go. Dan Aykroyd, the famous Canadian actor of Saturday Night Live fame will be touring Montreal, today and tomorrow (June 25 and 26), to present the line of wines that bear his name. He’ll be visiting three SAQ stores (see the list here) over the two [...]
Posted in Canada, Ontario, Quebec, tasting, wine Also tagged Celebrity Cellars, Creekside Wines, Dan Aykroyd, Diamond Estates Wines and Spirits, Ex Nihilo Vineyards, Francis Ford Coppola, Gérard Depardieu, Il Palagio, Madonna, Mike Weir, Montréal, Rolling Stones, Sam Neill, Sting, Wayne Gretzky 2 Comments
It's Christmas. Bring out the big bottles – and I mean that literally
I did another one of those fun collaborations with Sharman Yarnell, of Montreal radio station CJAD, this week. The theme was Holiday wine giving, by which she meant: what wine do you buy someone as a gift that will be distinctive and, hopefully, impressive.
I made many suggestions, from Alvaro Palacios’ Petalos, a scrumptious Bierzo with [...]
Posted in wine, wine trade Also tagged Berry Bros and Rudd, Borsao, Château Pétrus 1947, Christmas, Finca Allende, Gary Vaynerchuk, Henriques & Henriques, Insolite Importation, madeira, magnum, Mas La Plana, Orin Swift, Petalos, Pey La Tour, The Prisoner, Waitrose, wine gifts, Wine Library 1 Comment
California Wine all tastes the same? Says who?
Well, finally back to blogging. After an intense weekend at the Wine Bloggers Conference, followed by four full days of running around Sonoma and Napa – and Fairfield, and Berkeley and San Francisco – and then returning to a new position at the newspaper in Quebec City, and mulling over about twenty different potential post [...]
Posted in California, United States, red wine, white wine, winemaking Also tagged Allan Meadows, Appellation St. Helena, cabernet sauvignon, Dry Creek Valley, Eric Asimov, Flora Springs, Matt Kramer, Napa, New York Times, New Zealand, Pat Garvey, pinot noir, Preston of Dry Creek, Quebec, Quivira, Rued Vineyards, Russian River, sauvignon blanc, Sideways effect, Sonoma Coast, Truett Hurst, Twisted Oak, Unti Vineyards, WBC, Wine Bloggers Conference, zinfandel 3 Comments
The great closure debate: Corked wines? What corked wines?
A little while a go, I worte about how Decanter had moved into the debate about corks and screwcaps by siding with the screwy side of the argument. If corked wines are a huge problem – up to 12% of wines are corked, according to some wildly flung statements -, then it is time to [...]
Posted in Quebec, wine, wine trade Also tagged cork taint, corked wine, Decanter, defective products, screw cap, Société des alcools du Québec, statistics 5 Comments
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SAQ goes into Olympic mode: a showcase for Okanagan wines in Quebec (and a podcast of sorts)