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John Szabo’s VINTAGES Preview – Sep 29th, 2018
Three-Star Values By John Szabo, MS, with notes from Michael Godel This week we feature top, three-star values from the September 29th VINTAGES release, which covers a broad swath of the wine world from Argentina to Washington State. These are the wines that line up intrinsic wine quality and regional typicity with the best price […] More
Top Values at the LCBO (September 2018)
Your Guide to Best Values, Limited Time Offers & Bonus Air Miles selections at the LCBO Many new wines join the Top 50 List by Steve Thurlow I am in Agrigento, Sicily leading a group of wine lovers, exploring this isle of wine and fine food. I was hoping that a Sicilian wine might join […] More
The Best of Austria – Masterclass Six-Pack
The WineAlign Exchange Presents: An Austrian Wine Masterclass Six-Pack Have you ever experienced Austrian wine country? Admired the thousand-year-old terraced vineyards scratched out of the steep rocky banks while cruising the Danube Valley? Travelled over the rolling schist and limestone hills of the Burgenland, timidly peered down the precipitous double black diamond, vine-covered slopes of […] 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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Viognier (vee-ohn-yay) is a white wine grape. Viognier wines are well-known for their floral and tropical aromas. Its popularity has increased greatly, since the 1980s, both in France and elsewhere around the world. While its most renowned incarnation is in the Condrieu appellation, in the Northern Rhône, it is used more and more frequently in white blends from the Languedoc-Roussillon and in other appellations of the Rhône and Southern France. It is also found in significant amounts in California and Australia, as well as in Virginia (where it has become an emblematic grape for the state) and in Canada. Traditionally, small amounts of viognier were added to syrah in the famous Côte-Rôtie appellation, and the tradition has since been picked up by a number of Australian producers.
