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Top Values at the LCBO (February 2020)
Wines Join the Top 50 List Your Guide to Best Values, Limited Time Offers & Bonus Air Miles selections at the LCBO by Steve Thurlow You can save big time again this month and so continue an “economical” 2020. I have some great buys to tell you about with many wines discounted at the LCBO. […] More
Buyers’ Guide to VINTAGES February 8th, 2020
New Value Ratings Elevate South America By David Lawrason with reviews by John Szabo and Michael Godel In our last newsletter Sara d’Amato announced that WineAlign reviews will now include a value rating from 1 to 5. It sounds as though the rating should be based on a pure mathematical formula comparing price to score. […] More
Red Rooster – A Winery Profile
Perched On the Heights of The Naramata Bench By John Szabo MS This feature was commissioned by Red Rooster Winery. The view across Lake Okanagan from highway 97 to the bright, sand-coloured bluffs on the eastern shores is one of the most striking in all of Canadian wine country. Once the shoreline of prehistoric Lake […] 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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Icewine is a type of dessert wine produced from grapes that have been frozen while still on the vine. The sugars and other dissolved solids do not freeze, but the water does, allowing a more concentrated grape must to be pressed from the frozen grapes, resulting in a smaller amount of more concentrated, very sweet wine. Due to the labour-intense and risky production process resulting in relatively small amounts of wine, ice wines are generally quite expensive. The most famous (and expensive) ice wines are German Eiswein and Canadian Icewine but ice wine is also made in other countries around the world.
