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The County Charmes Hogtown – County in the City 2013
Prince Edward County is Ontario's youngest official wine appellation, but what it lacks in experience it more than makes up in potential. As things have started to come together and mature, that...
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i4C 2013 Preview: the Lunches
In three short years the International Cool Climate Chardonnay Celebration (i4C) has quickly become the local wine event of the summer. Taking cues from the International Pinot Noir Conference...
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i4C Preview: Lessons in Cool Climate Chardonnay
For wine lovers that thirst as much for wine knowledge as they do for what's in the bottle, the most important event of the 2013 International Cool Climate Chardonnay Celebration (i4C), is the Global...
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i4C 2013 Preview: A Primer on the World Tour Tasting
If you can only attend one event at the 2013 International Cool Climate Chardonnay Celebration (i4C), you need to make it the Cool Chardonnay World Tour Tasting. When i4C began three years ago the...
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30 Days of Ontario Wine – Day 4 – Rick’s Wine Picks Part 1
In the life of a young wine region, such as Ontario, five years can make a world of difference. Think about that for a minute. In the life of an Old World wine region, let’s say Bordeaux, Burgundy or...
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Cuvée 2014: A Snapshot of Ontario’s Evolving Wine Scene
One of the interesting side effects of the Cuveé format change, which began last year and continued again this year when the gala was held in early March, was that it forced winemakers to pick a...
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Hints of Great Things to Come: Wisdom from 25th Annual Experts’ Tasting
I'm sitting at a table with one of Niagara's top young winemakers, one of the country's leading experts on viticulture and vine biology and half of the duo that lent their names to a now world famous...
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Ontario Wine hits a Groove at Somewhereness 2014
The one thing all great food and drink has in common is that it has a unique quality which unmistakably links it to where it was made. This is especially true of wine where the grapes, climate, soil,...
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Introducing Redstone Winery
With the arrival of spring what might become one of the most important Niagara wineries of this current third generation launched. It's not using particularly innovative winemaking techniques nor...
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i4C 2014: Five Life Lesson from a Glass of Chardonnay
There may be truth in wine, but much like our tastes the insight it offer tends to be of the personal and introspective persuasion. But if there is such a thing as a universal truth in wine it would...
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