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Top Values at the LCBO (September 2019)
New Wines Join the Top 50 List Your Guide to Best Values, Limited Time Offers & Bonus Air Miles selections at the LCBO by Steve Thurlow I am in Portugal at present, leading a group of wine lovers. This region offers many great wine values. In fact, there are nine wines from here on the […] More
Buyers’ Guide to VINTAGES September 14th: Diving Deeper into Ontario Wine
Diving Deeper into Ontario Wine By David Lawrason, with notes from John Szabo MS, Michael Godel and Sara d’Amato At this time of year, as harvest draws near, VINTAGES always features local Ontario wines. And it has thankfully come to the point in the industry’s evolution that promoting local can be done confidently, with overall […] More
Sustainable South Africa – Oct 15th
Come out and taste more than 150 different wines from over 35 producers (see list below) from South Africa. Co-hosted by the South African High Commission in Canada and Wines of South Africa, we invite you to explore more than 350 years of heritage and discover a breadth of wines made with sustainability in mind. […] 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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Merlot is a red wine grape that is used as both a blending grape and for varietal wines. Merlot-based wines usually have medium body with hints of berry, plum, and currant. Its softness and "fleshiness", combined with its earlier ripening, makes Merlot a popular grape for blending with the sterner, later-ripening Cabernet Sauvignon, which tends to be higher in tannin. Along with Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot, Merlot is one of the primary grapes in Bordeaux wine where it is the most widely planted grape. Merlot is also one of the most popular red wine varietals in many markets.
