Tag Archives: VQA

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

By winecase | Published: October 15, 2009
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: Creekside Estate Winery 2006 VQA Cabernet, Niagara Peninsula

By winecase | Published: September 11, 2008
On my short vacation on Manitoulin Island, last August, I took a minute to stop by the Gore Bay branch of the LCBO to grab some wine (and a bit of cider), and chanced upon a bottle of 2006 VQA Cabernet by Creekside Winery, which I’d heard much good about in the last few months. Among [...]
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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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Confusion in the Cellar(ed in Canada)

By winecase | Published: April 16, 2008
The Cellared in Canada wine category, as I’ve written previously on this blog, is a marketing category whose first aim, it seems, is to create confusion with actual wines from Canada, since in fact, it can contain practically no Canadian wine, as opposed to the 100% homegrown VQA wines. Which doesn’t stop the LCBO from [...]
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