Today’s dinner inspiration stems from Mother Nature. After hunkering down the past few days to wait out what many are calling the biggest snowstorm in years, this weekend’s weather was truly brilliant here in Toronto with bright sunshine and clear skies. Just what we needed for some serious winter weather fun. Of course, coming in...
Wine makers latest temptation to lure local oenophiles off the ski slopes and down to Niagara on the Lake is a sweet one. Days of Wine and Chocolate takes place every weekend in February with 28 participating wineries showcasing their wine paired to a creative chocolate dish. With touring passes only $35, it’s an indulgent...
Tonight we’re gathering around the dinner table… to the background sounds of Super Bowl XVLII. Or depending on our timing, Beyoncé. In honour of this much-ballyhooed yearly right of passage, we decided our family dinner should be something fried. And include something with beer. (Incidentally, it’s estimated that more than 325 million gallons of beer are...
Now that we’ve wrapped up January, how did we all do? Still riding the Health Warrior Resolution Train? Over the past 30 days we’ve shone a bit of a spotlight on how wine can be a positive benefit to balanced and healthy lifestyles. The keyword being “balanced,” of course. When it comes to the benefits...
The last few weeks have been filled with all kinds of wine fun! From Niagara’s Icewine Festival to the LCBO’s feature on BC wines we’ve been treated to some very nice bottles, indeed. But the party’s not over yet. Here are the wines we’ve for which we’ve gone back for seconds and they’re still around...
We normally sing the praises of great wine finds under $20. Heck, under $15, when we can find them. But one of the great joys of doing what we do is getting opportunities – albeit relatively rare ones – to indulge in the iconic wines of our industry; the First Growth Bordeaux, pioneering California Cabs,...
It’s amazing how one howling night of subzero temperatures and wind warnings can wipe out the memories of the January warm-up we just went through. With a wind warning in effect, Niagara’s Icewine Festival was forced to close its Icewine Village in Niagara on the Lake – when just yesterday tourists were enjoying the sweet...
It’s currently a blistering cold -12°C with the wind chill in Toronto. In fact, Environment Canada has issued a wind warning as it’s so howlingly ferocious that Erin’s evergreen trees, planted in huge containers with a cement base, fell over from the pointed gusts of Old Man Winter’s fury. The poor things will have to stay...
It’s not very often we get treated to a splurge of BC wines here in Ontario; yes, there are the Vintages Essentials of Mission Hill and Osoyoos Larose and a handful of others making their way periodically through Vintages during the year, but starting today the LCBO will feature a number of BC wines not...
Who can deny the pure pleasure of coming home after long day, opening up a great bottle of wine and sitting down to dinner with the ones you love the most? At this time of year, we hear time and time again that many wine lovers are backing off the juice to detox for the...
