My Acid Trip with The Living Vine
Malcolm Jolley is overwhelmed at The Living Vine portfolio tasting. No, this post isn’t...
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Tag: Zinta Steprans
Grande Degustazione 2015
The Italian Trade Commission to Canada held its 20th annual Toronto wine seminar and tasting this...
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Terroir Wine Workshops
Wine Workshops Registration on site day of Symposium Just a little heads-up regarding the four...
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What I learned at the Jura Tasting…
Good Food Revolution’s Jura Tasting was a great success. We speak with many of the attendees and attempt to discover just what makes the wines of Jura so very special and at the same time so polarizing.
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Boxed Toronto Supper Club Goes All Asian On Us
Toronto has been going through an exciting time as of late, with so many new independent restaurants opening and so many talented young chefs organising exciting pop-up ventures in quirky little spots all over town. Enter Chef Matt Sullivan, ex of Malena, who has decided to do his own thing for a bit through his Boxed evenings.
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Conceito Winemaker’s Dinner at Malena Wednesday, April 20TH, 2011
It was not until 2007 that Rita Ferriera Marques surprised the Portuguese wine scene by releasing what would become the best Portuguese white wine, Conceito Branco, and raised eyebrows with a red made from pure Bastardo, a shallow-colored red wine from this previously abandoned grape variety. This success came with increasing interest from abroad, with her major brand Conceito and minor brand Contraste receiving increasingly higher interest from world wide wine critics and importers.
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2010 Royal Winter Fair Wine Competition Results
GFR’s Jamie Drummond organised this year’s Royal Agricultural Winter Fair Ontario Wine Competition. With over 300 to taste and judge on a recent Sunday morning, Jamie organized 24 judges into panels to taste the wines. I brought my camera to asks the sommeliers, restaurateurs and foodie experts about their experience and this year’s wines.
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Young Blood Sommelier: Zinta Steprans
A few weeks ago we put Pizza Libretto/Enoteca Sociale Sommelier Lesa LaPointe through the wringer in one of our most popular articles thus far. We followed this with an interview with the Owner/Wine Geek of Parkdale’s Café Taste, Mr. Jeremy Day. This week we look into the mind of the lovely Zinta Steprans, Sommelier at Toronto restaurants L’Unita and Malena.
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