Just back from a trip to Cuba. The all inclusive pricing included all the alcohol you could drink. We drank the Soroa band Red and White wines. We were told these were brought in from Spain and bottled in Cuba. The red was a simple easy drinking wine with a bit of depth and a [...]

Last night we had no idea what to drink, so we decided to open this wine we picked up in Paris a few years back. We bought this on a whim to fill up the bags coming home with some cheap Bordeaux and with the low price and medal on the label (marketing!) we grabbed [...]

If you get regular emails from Vintages this one may interest you. There are some very good wines featured and if you are looking at buying this may be a good time to look at these: (Overall List Here) 2006 Bouchard Pere & Fils Volnay Taillepieds 1er Cru for $65 a bottle 2006 Champy Volnay [...]

Well sort of! I am back from a longer then usual business trip and with a few pictures and comments to fill the blank space until a new review. Here we go: Had these three wines the night before I left. Quickly: The Trius was below average, not what I expected from them, Thirty Bench [...]

This wine is, you guessed it, not available at the LCBO I’m on a roll. We picked this one up on the latest trip down to Niagara. The wine is a simple slightly complex white. It would go well with a lot of dishes. It has a very slight effervescent tingle on the tongue, but [...]

I really hate to do this again, but this is another wine not available in the LCBO. We picked this one up at the winery back in the fall. We took a trip out to Prince Edward county for the 2 days and had a great time. The people, wineries and food were excellent. Our [...]

I really enjoyed this wine tonight. I paired it with a striploin steak with rice and cauliflower with cheese. Dessert was a chocolate brownie! It went well. The subtleties of this wine are best appreciated without food but it is food friendly. It could use a bit of breathing say 1/2 hour before serving. The [...]

This wine is one of the wines by the glass at Keg restaurants. Unfortunately it is not available at the LCBO. You can pay an importer to bring it in, but you can only bring in a case at a time. It’s tempting to just bring in a whole case. I really enjoy this Zinf. [...]

I’ve had this wine in my cellar since August and I can’t get over how much this wine has softened in the 7 months since I bought it. I brought it up from the basement and it was slightly chilled which also helped to soften the wine. This is a lovely varietal Malbec. The finish [...]

I had this wine at Casey’s before a leaf game. I paired it with dark meat rotisserie chicken and rice. I quite enjoyed the wine. Terroir is big in Niagara and this wine bears little resemblance to Napa Cab but was good none the less. Trius do a great job of managing the tannins into [...]

I had this wine at a restaurant called Symposium in Mississauga.  As usual the glass cost about the same amount as the bottle. This is a reasonably priced quite good pinot grigio. It has a reasonably long finish with a touch of bitterness. It is smack on varietal. All in all quite a reasonable wine [...]

I first tasted this wine at the Society for American Wine annual cab tasting event. They used it as the reception wine. This wine is a bargain $17.95. What you have here is a solid Californian cab. Absolutely varietal in flavor. This wine has lovely fruit a medium finish and just the right amount of [...]

I am traveling on Monday and have been crazy busy of late at work (think auditors, think pain) so I have not been able to bring forward a few reviews I have wanted. This is a brief one to talk about the following three wines: The other night we had a friend/coworker over who lives [...]

Opened this Spanish wine up a few nights ago thinking it was probably ready to go. We have had this in the cellar for at least 2 years and I was hoping to take an inexpensive red with potential for complexity and allow it some time to sort itself out. I am not the biggest [...]

We have done a couple of trips to the wine tasting areas of both Niagara as well as Prince Edward County. For these we chose to spend just one night down in the area which works out well. Go down have a nice lunch (or just after), tour a winery or 3, then have dinner, [...]