Very brief, as I do not have the time to do a proper round up. Parental units plus Mrs and Mr CWG went to this tonight and it was brilliant. I will review this and the wines tomorrow. Enjoy your Saturday night, sip well!

Just a fast note. A Vintages email arrived this morning and it has an extremely good release for Saturday February 28th. A large selection of wines from this Southern France region and all well priced. See this link for more details on those wines. Only one wine is over $20 and most are ready to [...]

No review tonight as it was a martini night. Just wanted to pass on a link to one of the better video-bloggers (or whatever you want to call them) that has an intense and large following. Insightful, humourous and poignant, Phil DeFranco is pretty sharp. His website is here and he has his own youtube [...]

The follow up to the first of the Wyndham Bin 5xx release is this wine, a Shiraz Grenache blend (51% shiraz 49% grenache). First thing that should shock everyone is the 2008 on the vintage label. WOW. I know that the Australian harvest is on average 6 months before North America (as are Chili, Argentina, [...]

Last fall we travelled up and checked out a number of the wineries in the Prince Edward County area. The trip was thoroughly enjoyable and the wines were very different than those of Niagara. The whites have a ton of minerality and a lot of them have that tart green apple like flavor on the [...]

Every now and then I come across a review about some great bottle of wine under $10. Blah blah Blah, yadda, yadda, yadda and skip to the chase. Underwhelming, tasted like vinegar. Alcohol was the only flavor. Then every now and then one comes along and make you go hmmm. This is one of those. [...]

We recently got this wine from our wine club and this is the high end series from Peller Estates. It is always nice to see a monthly wine club that is not afraid to send high end wines as a part of their regular. One of the great things about being in the golden horseshoe [...]

As I often travel to California for work I regularly buy wine to bring back. Generally I try and grab a few bottles that are recommended to me and that I cannot get in Canada, though that is hard to figure out at the time of purchase. Usually the budget is $30 to $80 US [...]

Must be Cave Spring month! Last night upon my arrival Mrs CWG had a bottle of this open, it is one of her favorite easy drinking, refreshing and casual whites. Cave Spring do several Rieslings from Ice Wine to some Estate versions. This is one of their least expensive and quite pleasing ones, and if [...]

I am in transit back home through San Diego. This restaurant in Little Italy is outstanding. I hate being a creature of habit when I am in foreign cities but when you find a great restaurant why risk somewhere else disappointing you when all you want is great food and wine? So this at least [...]

Once again I had the chance to try two more Californian wines last night. Thank you goes out to the friends that invited me over for dinner and lively discussion. I brought the 2006 J Lohr Cab Sauv as mentioned in the title and as well a 2006 Sterling Vintners Collection. Both wine are available [...]

This is actually going to be a double review. One will be for the Frog’s Leap as the title of this blog suggests, the other will be a brief one for a 2005 Charles Krug Pinot Noir. I was kindly invited over by friends last night for dinner here in Yuma, Arizona. Like my mother [...]

I am off on a business trip so I thought I share a quick and easy recipe for sangria. The rest of the week will be small little updates on wines I am drinking on the road. Sangria is great with any Mexican dish, really it is. This recipe has on many many many occasions [...]

There is not a lot to say about this wine. It is slightly varietal, lots of oak with a medium to mild finish. I didn’t love this wine, but didn’t hate it. I won’t be rushing out for more. This is definitely not to be mistaken for a big bold Cab Sauv. There are some [...]

On first tasting this wine is overwhelmingly sweet. It reminded me of a mild ice wine or a Riesling Auslese. This does fade after a while but this is very much a wine dominated by sugars. The tasting notes below are pretty accurate. I get honey/nectarine like flavors. I was not hugely thrilled with this [...]