Canadian wine
Great Canadian Wines for Canada Day
Our sommeliers went coast-to-coast for their Canadian wine faves this holiday. by Erin Canada is a big place. And its wine offering is nearly as big. With 280 wineries in BC, more than 160 in Ontario, and a small, but mighty, 20 or so wineries in Nova Scotia. Inevitably every year for Canada Day we...
Our Top 20 Best Buys for the September 5 Vintages Release
This week’s Vintages release seems smaller than usual. Maybe that’s because it doesn’t have a specific theme like the releases usually do. Still, there are some great wines being released this weekend – some we like for their terrific value, others are intriguing cellar dwellers. Let us know what wines you’re sipping lately – and if...
Wine for the Weekend
Burrowing Owl Cabernet Franc, VQA Okanagan Valley, BC 2012 $43.95 Vintages 349019 Cabernet Franc is one of our favourite varietals – and Burrowing Owl is one of our favourite BC producers. Too bad we don’t see it more often here in Ontario, but we have it on good authority that there is plenty in stock...
Go West! Some of BC’s Best Bottles Land at the LCBO
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...