Feb 04 2010
Off To Australia
I am off to Australia in a few hours, I will try and get some reviews of Aussie wines up while I am gone. See you in two weeks CWG
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Feb 04 2010
I am off to Australia in a few hours, I will try and get some reviews of Aussie wines up while I am gone. See you in two weeks CWG
Jan 17 2010
Happy Sunday morning, if you are at all like Canadian Wine Guy, you are prepping for two good football games today and making dog cookies (what?!?)… For all those interested, I have added twitter to my daily you know what’s, join/follow me @canadianwineguy I leave you with a picture of the world’s most spoiled Great [...]
Jan 13 2010
Canadian Wine Guy is excited to announce that we are getting another contributer if only from time to time. Natalie MacLean, the Canadian author of the bestseller Red, White and Drunk All Over, offers a free wine newsletter at her website (which is found in our links section). Not only is she a clear voice [...]
Jan 01 2010
Well 2009 was, to say the least, a busy year. It saw me go on an unexpected sabatical of six months with John picking up the slack. Despite being away half a year, wine was still drunk and some great ones made it to a special list, the top CWG wines of 2009. I will [...]
Jun 12 2009
I know it is a bit late to chat about these two events, but hopefully if you are reading this and have time you might venture down to Old Town and give one or both a shot. First the wine event: On Tuesday June 16th is the ‘sip & Savour Ontario’ event. I attended and [...]
May 08 2009
In case you hadn’t heard, Jordanne’s Claystone Terrace Chardonnay 2005 beat out a number of French and California wines in a blind taste test in Montreal. Read all about it! NOTE: If you do run out to grab one of these puppies, be careful there are two with identical looking bottles with the same price. [...]
Mar 24 2009
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 [...]
Jun 13 2007
Welcome to last week Globe and Mail… “I think this helps explain one of the reasons why corporate profits have been at a record high as a share of national income in the last couple of years,” Mr. Porter said. In theory, a runup in the currency should make imported goods cheaper and damp down [...]
Jun 04 2007
I try not to blog about politics or anything close to, but this is something a great many Canadians are getting affected by and either are choosing to be silent or simply have not gotten any support from their elected officials. Okay so you ask “CWG what are you talking about?” I am talking about [...]
May 28 2007
Things are settling down a bit, meaning I will be regaining my later evenings. Tomorrow will be a review of a Bordeaux Superior (a Sichel) that was quite polished. Hopefully I will get a stemware review in before the week is out and we are looking at a nice Canadian Cab-Merlot on Wednesday/Thursday evening. On [...]
May 14 2007
Fast Monday morning note, the Wall Street Journal Online linked to my review of 2004 Chateau de Seguin on Friday the 11th. At the bottom of the Gaiter/Brecher Tastings Review you will see a link to my review! A belated Happy Mother’s Day to all (due to entertaining both Mrs.CWG’s mother then my own I [...]