This release celebrates family-owned wineries, and sangiovese – based wines from Italy. Sangiovese is the most popular red grape variety of Italy and planted mainly in Tuscany, but thrives in many other regions. Many wine enthusiasts favour family-owned and operated wineries with the belief that they pay more and closer […]
Tag: Wine Tasting
Professor B’s September 19 Vintages Release Recommendations
The second release of September sets the tone to what we can expect in future releases that will culminate with the Christmas release at the beginning do December. This is a very large release with well over 130 wines, spirits, liqueurs, and only one sake. The main feature is Ontario […]
2014 – Annual German wine tasting – Toronto
Every ear, a small number of representatives of German wineries travel to North America hoping to gain a few thousands more consumers of their wines. Sales representatives, owners, and sometimes winemakers pour the wines in major wine markets in Canada and the U.S.A.. Toronto is a major German wine market […]
An Australian wine tasting
The Australian wine promotion agency Wine Australia has been re-organized. Previously, there was a Canadian office in Toronto promoting Australian wines in Canada, but not only one office in Washington D.C. will be promoting Australian wines in the U S A and Canada. The inaugural trade tasting took place on […]
Osoyoos Larose wine tasting
Osoyoos Larose was originally a joint venture of Vincor and Groupe Taillan from Bordeaux. As of January 2013, Groupe Taillan has become the sole proprietor of this 30 hectare vineyard and winery in British Columbia`s Okanagan Valley. Osyoos Larose is a Bordeaux-style red wine. The winery produces two wines Osyoos […]
Wine country Ontario 2013 tasting
Ontario is the largest wine producer of the four regions in Canada, the others being British Columbia, Nova Scotia and Quebec. While up to 1970’s few wineries existed in the province after the establishment of Inniskillin by Donald Ziraldo, and Karl Kaiser, the number of wineries has since skyrocketed. To […]
Taking a Wine Tasting Tour in Paris.
Whether you are experienced in the art of wine tasting, or you have only just stumbled upon the great world of wines, you really need to pay a visit to the home of fine wine and experience some of the best wine tasting events in the world. Of course I […]
A Beginners Guide to Wine Tasting.
Have you always wanted to be an expert wine taster but you just don’t know where to start? As usual, the best place to start is at the beginning. Down the road, you can be the wine aficionado you’ve always thought you should be. For now, you just need to […]