Tea fit for Olympians
[caption id="attachment_2194" align="alignleft" width="619" caption="Adam Kreek, gold medal, Beijing, 2008"][/caption] Some time ago I was given a small...
Category Archives: Drink
Crown Royal XR
Oh Joy! Someone on our street has decided to learn the tenor saxophone. He has spent the morning...
The Iron Sommelier
[caption id="attachment_1865" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Canada's three Master Sommeliers, Jennifer Huether, John Szabo and Bruce Wallner"][/caption] On Tuesday night,...
Allen’s Steak Festival 2012
I have always imagined John Maxwell, proprietor of Allen's, as the most urban of men, a boulevardier very much at...
Writers Tears
I believe in the social benefits of taxation. It’s how those of us who are lucky enough to...
Winners of the 2011 Winetasting Challenge!
The news is out. The winners of the 2011 Winetasting Challenge have been announced. The Challenge was created...
Massey College Wine Grazing Italy
To Massey College for the annual Wine Grazing, where 100 junior and senior fellows of the graduate...
Four pre-Christmas treats and one post-
[caption id="attachment_1726" align="alignleft" width="248" caption="Liquored salmon belly at Starfish Oyster Bed: is Patrick McMurray a genius or what?"][/caption]...
The uses of icewine
[caption id="attachment_1717" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Sue-Ann Staff unexpectedly attacked by a wine barrel"][/caption] To Sopra for a lunchtime tasting...
Easton’s charcuterie + Lillet Rouge = *
[caption id="attachment_1694" align="alignleft" width="260" caption="Easton's - a meaty new star in the Market"][/caption] A new store opened in...