When two lovely Italian gentlemen invite you to a lunch and to drink wine, you say yes. Well, in real life you think harder about it, because who are these Italian gentlemen, you may ask? But when the offer comes through a PR department and includes a four-course lunch … [Read more...] about Re-Branding Barolo as an Anytime Wine
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Lambrusco: Hunting for Quality Among Italian Sparkling Red Wines
Have you ever had a sparkling red Italian? A wine, I mean, but some of the same criteria fall to men I've dated, too: questionable ethics, a lack of concern for the environment, excessive sweetness or bitterness, and the tendency to try to present themselves as the kind of … [Read more...] about Lambrusco: Hunting for Quality Among Italian Sparkling Red Wines
Negroamaro del Prete Anne Review
Have you ever opened a bottle of wine that made you stop in your tracks? As in one of the best wines of your life? One that you could drink again and again? No special occasion necessary, except for the fact that you assume it's very expensive because it's so good? And then you … [Read more...] about Negroamaro del Prete Anne Review
The Wine Whisperers, Part 2: Coturri Winery, Sonoma Valley, California
I was on a mission. I was spending a week in Sonoma and Napa in search on natural, biodynamic and organic wines. There were to be no trolley tours, no limo tours, and, as one of my favourite Montreal wine import companies proclaims: "No shit in my wine." My next stop? Coturri. … [Read more...] about The Wine Whisperers, Part 2: Coturri Winery, Sonoma Valley, California