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Annual Gift Guide December 2019
Gift Guide 2019 By Sara d’Amato with notes from David Lawrason, Steve Thurlow, Michael Godel and John Szabo M.S. Bells are ringing and so it is time for us at WineAlign to round up our top gift-giving picks. Recommendations are listed by individual critic as some of us took specific thematic approaches. I take on […] More
Top Values at the LCBO (December 2019)
New Wines at the LCBO Join the Top 50 List Your Guide to Best Values, Limited Time Offers & Bonus Air Miles selections at the LCBO by Steve Thurlow There are lots of wines discounted at the LCBO in December; many of which are white. Sales of white wine in Ontario drops as soon as […] More
Buyers’ Guide to VINTAGES December 7th
Open Season for the Holidays! By David Lawrason, with notes from John Szabo, Michael Godel and Sara D’Amato This is the last and largest release of the year at Vintages, with about 180 products representing the widest possible range of styles, prices, regions and grape varieties to serve the widest possible clientele just before Christmas. […] 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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Nero d'Avola ("Black from Avola" in Italian) is "the most important red wine grape in Sicily" and is one of Italy's most important indigenous varieties. It is named after Avola, near Syracusa in the southeast of Sicily and its wines are often compared to New World Shiraz, with sweet soft tannins and plum/ prune fruit and sometimes peppery flavours. It is often made as a varietal wine, but it is also be assembled with another local grape called Frappato or with international varieties.
