A return to the Brock CCOVI Experts Tasting
It’s been over four years since the last Brock CCOVI Experts Tasting, with the annual event...
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A Look At The Upcoming 2015 Experts’ Tasting with CCOVI’s Barbara Tatarnic
Undoubtedly an annual highlight of the Ontario wine community’s calendar, the annual Brock...
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2012 Experts’ Tasting: The Selection Process Begins…
Earlier this week a select group of fourteen Winemakers, Journalists, Academics, and Sommeliers convened at Inniskillin Hall, CCOVI, Brock University to begin the lengthy process of selecting wines for the 2012 Experts’ Tasting… It is ACTUALLY a hard job… and someone has to do it.
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Wine Tasting Challenge
Phil Sabatino is making a serious point. But then, nothing Sabatino does is by half measure. Whether it’s the legendary wine list (6,000 labels – Wine Spectator Grand Award) at his legendary restaurant, Via Allegro, or the Wine Tasting Challenge, which he founded in 2004. The point of the blind tasting contest, he makes clear, was to have the most challenging and best paying sommelier and amateur palate bout.
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