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Top Values at the LCBO (September 2020)
by Steve Thurlow There is a bumper batch of $8 and $9 whites and reds this month to tell you about. I have been tasting new vintages of my favourites; some of which are better then the last vintage and so have joined the Top50 Best Values List . There are lots of interesting discounts […] More
If I Could Buy Only One – September 5th VINTAGES Release
Back by popular demand: We asked the writers, “If you could buy only one wine from this release, which one would it be and why?”. David Lawrason – Ferraton Père & Fils La Matinière Crozes Hermitage 2017, Rhône Valley, France $26.95, Family Wine Merchants There were a handful of wines in the Sept 5 release […] More
Buyers’ Guide to VINTAGES September 5th, 2020
A Bushel of Good Buys for The First Real Fall Weekend By David Lawrason with Picks from Sara, Michael and John The week after Labour Day week is always one of the most intense and stressful of the year, all amplified here in 2020 of course. So, I want to keep this newsletter almost completely […] More
National Wine Awards of Canada
Discover Canada's best wines! In 2016, 22 judges tasted 1,535 wines from 230 wineries across the country to identify Canada's top wines.
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World Wine Awards of Canada
Seventeen judges tasted 1,000 wines in 21 categories in 2015 to find the world's best wines sold in Canada under $50.
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Soave (pronounced SWAH-vay) is a dry white wine from the Veneto region in northeast Italy, principally around the city of Verona. It's generally designed to be drunk a year or two after the vintage. It is a user-friendly white, which offers good value for money: a wine from which one expects neither complexity nor ageing potential but rather a clean fragrance and an appealing freshness and delicacy. Some producers, however, have worked on raising the general quality and offer some high-end and single-vineyard bottlings. Made from the Garganega and Trebbiano di soave, it is almost always vinified in stainless steel, a method which allows the wine's attractive floral and fruity notes to express themselves fully. It is also used to make a dessert wine, Recioto di Soave, made from partially dried grapes.
