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VINTAGES Buyers’ Guide – June 8th, 2019
Rewarding Excellence & Global Best Buys By Sara d’Amato with notes from Michael Godel As you read this report, critics from across the country (as well as our international judge, Dr. Jamie Goode) are en route to Prince Edward County for the National Wine Awards of Canada where over 1,800 Canadian wines have been entered […] More
A Healthy Three-Tier System: Chilean Wines For All
By John Szabo MS A healthy wine industry is a diverse industry. Focusing all effort in a single segment puts the industry at risk. Wine, like all non-essential products, is economy-dependent; I doubt you’ve stopped filling up your car since the carbon tax was imposed, but a dip in your personal income, or a government […] More
Top Values at the LCBO (June 2019)
June Deals and Discounts at the LCBO Your Guide to Best Values, Limited Time Offers & Bonus Air Miles selections at the LCBO by Steve Thurlow I am just back from a week in Austria where I was doing research for a future wine tour and discovering new wines from the border regions with Slovenia […] 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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Valpolicella is a viticultural zone of the province of Verona, Italy, east of Lake Garda. The hilly agricultural and marble-quarrying region of small holdings north of the Adige is famous for wine production. Valpolicella ranks just after Chianti in total Italian DOC wine production. The wine known as Valpolicella is typically made from three grape varietals: Corvina Veronese, Rondinella, and Molinara. Most Valpolicellas are quite light and fragrant table wines, but some also use the appassimento method (which consists in partially drying the grapes, as is done for amarone) to give them more depth and intensity.
