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Eight Under $28 From The April 28th VINTAGES Release
April 24, 2012 VINTAGES Vinea Garganega 2010 (230656, $13.95) sugars great Veronese IVR* promise out of the Veneto. Hyperglycemic green-eyed lady bass line and Hammond organ finger roll plum and...
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VINTAGES Classics, May 2012 – Six “values” under $69
April 30, 2012 VINTAGES The bi-annual fine wine catalogue is “free to those that can afford it, very expensive to those that can‘t.” Have been burning the midnight must, wondering from which...
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Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. Desert island wines?
Comparative 2008 Napa Cabernet Tasting By Featured Writer Jascha Baraness Vertical Restaurant, 100 King Street West, (416) 214-2252 Vertical Restaurant The comparative/competitive tasting event was...
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VINTAGES May 12, 2012 – Wines for Mother’s Day
May 9, 2012 Chardonnay. So often velocitized by toasted oak that a rise against it became known as the ABC movement. Trust me, Chardonnay is back and like City TV (thank you JB), it’s everywhere....
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VINTAGES May 26, 2012 Release: Chardonnay
May 21, 2012 May 24th happens to be the third annually designated Chardonnay Day so this quintet of quality gold comes in right on cue. This a marketing concept using social media as the thread that...
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Tasting through Portugal and the VINTAGES May 26th Release
Three thematic release posts done, Lytton Springs, Chardonnay and Tuscany, 16 more tasting notes to go. Shout out to Anne Yarymowich and Annick Le Goaix for some splendid Portuguese gastronomy last...
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Re-wined up. May openings and online releases
One Pinot, two Shiraz, three Tintos and 27 obscure grapes. Belle Glos Pinot Noir Clark & Telephone Vineyard 2005 (652883, $39.95) has softened since the last visit on Mother’s Day 2009. Speculation...
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Essential wine for Father’s Day
What to get dad this year for Father’s Day. Perhaps not the gifting conundrum that is Mother’s Day but no walk in the park either. The obvious gadgets present themselves; iPhone, iPad, Kindle, Nook or...
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Money the issue as NASCAR Montreal event folds
NASCAR racing arrived in Montreal in 2007 with throaty, angry 700-horsepower engines roaring beneath the heavily decalled hoods of 43 cars. These machines banged and hammered memorably off each other...
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California wildfire photos look like hell on Earth
Wildfires in Ventura County, California have now burned through more than 10,000 acres. USA Today reports that the fires, which started yesterday morning, have sent thousands fleeing as the flames move...
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Pond Hockey, Beyond Beer
Curious to know what wine to drink with Pond Hockey? On Saturday night of the big tourney we had a pot luck dinner and opened these wines… KUNDE ZINFANDEL 2007 (965921, $16.95). Like waiting for a...
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In Dominus We Invest
From Saturday’s February 18th, 2012 VINTAGES release, the great Napicon, conspicuous with a Parker (99) to boast its already inflated position. I tasted it and it truly is da bomb. Is it worth the...
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VINTAGES February 18th Release, Wines Tasted
13th STREET OLD VINES RIESLING 2010 (272617, $23.95) carries on in the tradition of the house style. Eerily similar to the Palette, reeking of Viognier and Gewurztraminer. It’s round, easy to like, if...
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Selling Ontario By The Wine
Sunday, March 4, 2012 An example of the VINTAGES rare and sui generis modus operandi. Released back on Oct. 15, 2011, the Shafer One Point Five Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 (45476, $79.95) reappears as an...
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Toronto Life Names Top 10 New Restos
Friday March 9, 2012 Since opening in April 2011, the wine card at Barque Smokehouse has been in my charge. Weighed favourably towards VINTAGES releases, the list makes friends with and flatters the...
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Hunger Games and Blind Wine Tasting
Monday, March 19, 2012 Quince Bistro, 2110 Yonge Street, Toronto I play the hunger game all day in anticipation of the big night. Eating little, saving myself for what the chef will throw at me....
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Of Budgets, Bohemian Rhapsody, Intrigue and Curiosity
Saturday March 31, 2012 Search the newswires, blogosphere and the world of internet forums and you will sense, as my friend DL would say, a “guttural sadness” and general discontent. Talking here...
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April Wine: Top VINTAGES Values to Buy Right Now
April 12, 2012 How many times have you found yourself standing in the LCBO dumbfounded and lost in ambient wine distraction? Do you feel knocked upside the Medulla Oblongata by a monopoly’s shelves...
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3 critically injured, 87 treated at hospital after 6.0 magnitude earthquake...
By Ellen Knickmeyer NAPA, Calif. — A large earthquake caused significant damage and left three critically injured in California’s northern Bay Area early Sunday, igniting fires, sending at least 87...
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With a big lead, Bae Sang-moon hangs on to win Frys.com Open in PGA Tour opener
Bae Sang-moon set a big goal for the new PGA Tour season. He wants to end it at home in South Korea by playing in the Presidents Cup. He couldn’t have asked for a better start. Bae won the...
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