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5 Toronto wine shops you need to know
With restaurant wine sales now permanent in Ontario, here are five wine shops in Toronto that are worth checking out. by Erin Beleaguered restaurant owners and wine enthusiasts, rejoice! The Ontario government has tiptoed into the 21st century by allowing wine sales for take-out in Ontario restaurants forever more. Since the outbreak of Covid, and...
Ontario Wines You Should be Drinking Right Now
These wineries just made it easier to support Ontario with free local shipping. By Erin Ontario’s only one week into social isolation and already the wine drinking memes are hilariously flowing. But what isn’t so funny, is that local wineries, like many businesses right now, are feeling the financial pinch of a society on lock...
Our Top Wine Picks from the February 20 Vintages Release
This week Vintages highlights Australia and the wealth of wine coming from Down Under. While it was the iconic juicy and powerful Shiraz of Barossa that really shot Oz to fame on this side of the world, there’s so much more to the winemaking country than just the plump red wine. Indeed, hilly Eden Valley...
Stratus at 10 Years Old
We just returned from the cottage. A right of passage for Canadians (depending on where you live, you may call your summer wilderness excursion the cabin, camp or cottage but it’s all basically the same thing) this yearly (and for some lucky ducks weekendly) city escape truly brings about Canadian pride, and weirdly current nostalgia...
Will the Real Canadian Wine Please Stand Up?
The Truth Behind What’s in that International-Canadian Blend Bottle Perhaps it’s the Canada Day long weekend that’s given the inspiration, or maybe the build up to I4C, or even the recent report by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency which reveals most Canadian have no idea what the term “Cellared in Canada” means, but lately a...