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Results from the 2025 Nationals – Winery of the Year
Mission Hill Family Estate By Anthony Gismondi and David Lawrason The Okanagan hilltop winery with the stunning vistas has returned to the top of the heap once again at the 2025 WineAlign National Wine Awards of Canada. It first happened when Mission Hill Family Estate took Winery of the Year honours at the inaugural awards … … Continue reading More
Results from the 2025 Nationals – Best Performing Small Winery of the Year
Laughing Stock Vineyards By NWAC judge HJ Cha HJ (Huijeong) Cha is a certified Sommelier and WSET Diploma holder pursuing her wine studies as a Master of Wine candidate. She is a reviewer and contributer at Gismondi On Wine. The title of this year’s Best Performing Small Winery went to Laughing Stock Vineyards, with standout … … Continue reading More
Results from the 2025 Nationals – Platinum Winners
Announcing the Results from the 2025 National Wine Awards of Canada The 2025 Nationals took place in Penticton from June 21st to 25th. Today, we are pleased to announce the Platinum Medal winners. Category results will be rolling out throughout the rest of July, concluding with the Winery of the Year announcement on August 1st. … … Continue reading More
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Exchange Wine Club SubscriptionMuscat grapes are used to make a variety of sweet dessert wines in just about every part of the wineworld and, more rarely, dry or semi-dry table wines. A fair amount of the dessert wines are fortified, though muscat is also used to produce wines from late harvest, botrytized or partially-dried grapes, as well as an increasingly popular style of semi-sweet sparkling wine, Moscato, originally from Piedmont, in Italy, but now produced in a growing number of countries. There are, in fact, a number of varieties bearing the name Muscat: Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains (the most frequent), Muscat of Alexandria, Black Muscat, Moscato Giallo, Muscat Ottonel, New York Muscat, etc. All these variations share an exuberant fruitiness, with aromas of peach or apricot, as well as floral and/or spicy notes. They also bear a large number of synonyms, depending on whether they are planted in French-, Spanish-, German-, Italian-speaking or other countries. Among the numerous appellations where muscat is present, notable examples include the vin doux naturels of Southern France (Frontignan, Beaumes-de-Venise, Rivesaltes, etc.), the muscats of Alsace (where the grape is also used in traditional white blends), Samos Muscat from Greece, Moscatels from Portugal and Spain and, here in Canada, a number of wines in Nova Scotia where Muscat Ottonel and New York Muscat play a successful and important role.