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D’Amato & Szabo: Wine Thieves – Episode 32
Sauvignon Blanc Day: A Toast to New Zealand! May 7th is Sauvignon Blanc day but we’ll be celebrating all week! Join the Wine Thieves at ground zero for new world sauvignon blanc, Marlborough, New Zealand. John and Sara explore its rise to prominence from the first plantings in the 1970s, through to its explosion […] More
If I Could Buy Only One – May 1st VINTAGES Release
We asked our writers, “If you could buy only one wine from this release, which one would it be and why?” Michael Godel – Finding value in old world European regions gets increasingly harder every year. The key to understanding where to look lies in the “lesser” appellations located in near proximate vicinity to the […] More
Buyers’ Guide to VINTAGES May 1st, 2021
Our Favourites and the Wine Thieves in New Zealand By John Szabo MS, with notes from Sara d’Amato, David Lawrason and Michael Godel This week’s report features a bevy of good wines from the Vintages May 1st release. The main theme is “customer favourites”, and here we bring you our favourites of your favourites, with […] 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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Port is a Portuguese, fortified wine from the Douro Valley in the northern provinces of Portugal. It is typically a sweet red wine, but also comes in dry, semi-dry and white varieties. It is often served as a dessert wine. Wines in the style of port are produced around the world in several countries, but under European Union guidelines, only the product from Portugal may be labelled as Port. There are many styles of ports, divided into two major families: rubys (which includes vintage and late bottled vintage ports) and tawnys (including the single-vintage colheitas). Vintage ports, which are bottled young in only the best years, when a vintage declaration is allowed by the consortium overseeing the production of port, fetch the highest prices and can age for decades if not centuries. A Tawny Port is made from a red Port wine that has matured in wooden barrels, whose permeability allows a small amount of exposure to oxygen, and experience what is known as "oxidative" aging. If red grapes are used, in time the red colour lightens to a tawny colour - these are known as Tawny (or sometimes Wood) ports. They also lose volume to evaporation, leaving behind a wine that is slightly more viscous and intense.
