My Take Home from RAW Toronto 2022
Toronto received its official Natural Wine stamp of legitimacy with the arrival of its first RAW...
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Tag: California Wine
Try This: A Lip-Smackingly Gorgeous Viognier
2020 Cline Cellars Viognier, North Coast, California (Alcohol 14.5%, Residual Sugar 6 g/l) LCBO...
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Special Offer from Forlorn Hope
Is Matthew Rorick the most interesting man we know? His past careers include navy seal,...
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Introducing: Booker Wines from Paso Robles
Meet the California cult wines that are turning heads! By MichelleD@lifford.com Paso Robles has...
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Making Some Bloody Serious Chardonnay In The Santa Rita Hills With Liquid Farm
Lately I have been getting quite excited about certain Chardonnays coming out of some of...
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Jamie Drummond on Food and Wine #71 Mike Hendry (Hendry Wines)
This week we sit down with Mike Hendry of Hendry Ranch Wines to speak about his family’s Napa Valley vineyards, where he has laboured since a young lad.
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Jamie Drummond on Food and Wine #68 Matt Dees (Jonata)
In recent years it has been a rare thing to see LCBO customers queuing for bottles in the manner they once did in days of yore. However, this weekend at both the Summerhill and Oakville stores, wine-hungry hordes stood patiently in line for a chance to grab a single bottle from the very limited allocations of both Jonata and The Paring. Matt Dees, the young, energetic Winemaker behind both of these labels was in town to quell the rabble and introduce his wines to the Ontario market, so GFR tracked him down with on Sunday afternoon and had a lovely chat about his wines.
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Try This Wine: Kendall Jackson “Summation – Vintner’s Reserve”
Somewhere along the line, North American wine drinkers changed their viewpoint on multi-grape blends and thankfully now embrace such bottlings without the suspicions they previously did. This week Jamie points us towards an interesting and unique blended white table wine from California.
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