New Zealand Wine
The New Zealand Wine fair blew into town yesterday with a stellar gathering of wine producers showing off...
Category Archives: Wine
The Wines of Léon Beyer
[caption id="attachment_2777" align="alignleft" width="199"] The charming town of Eguisheim[/caption] I love Alsatian wine. In my salad days, drowning...
Make Wine Not War – the Massey College wine grazing 2013
One of the signal privileges of being a member of the Quadrangle Society at Massey College is that...
David Lawrason’s CCC wine report
David Lawrason made a dramatic entrance at the Canadian Culinary Championships in Kelowna last week, flying in directly...
Lapostolle and Grand Marnier
My enthusiasm for the wines of Chile continues to grow, a long-smoldering ember fanned into flames by my...
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...
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-
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