SOMETHING OLD AND SOME THINGS NEW
Quite the mix for this week’s reviews, each of which is a blend from the Iberian Peninsula: an eight-year-old and two-year-old red from Spain and...
Germany Will Make a Riesling Lover Out of You
My Wines of Germany menu demonstrated the versatility of Riesling. I know many Ontarians who say they hate Riesling. To me, it’s like saying you...
The Intriguing Tale of Casale Del Giglio
I love a good story. Consider that of Casale del Giglio. Some 50 kilometres south of Rome, the winery is situated in that noted, historic...
Two Well-Valued Reds
It’s taking summer a while to get here, and cooler evenings lend themselves to reds for me. Here are two easy bets for under $20....
The Canadian Museum of Nature
I went in blind for our visit at the Canadian Museum of Nature. Figuratively, that is. I’d never been there and did zero research in...
The National Gallery of Canada
Had the chance to visit Ottawa a couple weeks back and finally got to the National Gallery of Canada. On display right now is “Canada and...
Raising a Glass with Justin Taylor (at the Proper Temperature)
As you may have noticed from my previous blog, I had the chance to sit down for an hour with Justin Taylor last month at...
Not All Wineries Believe in Corks
I’ve written on the cork-taint subject before—that contamination of wine (usually involving a musty, wet-newspaper sort of smell) that’s typically the result of the chemical...
IT’S LIKE NOTHING ELSE: Spain’s unique, increasingly popular Albariño
Want to make a wine representative from Spain’s Rías Baixas region suddenly go quiet? Ask them what other wine they’d compare to Albariño. Dead silence....
SAND CASTLES: Ian Baker-Finch offers an insider’s guide to the world’s greatest golf region
Twenty million years ago, give a day or two, the lower lying areas just south of modern-day Melbourne, Australia, were submerged beneath a few hundred...
