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Category Archives: Canadian Wine
Taste Canada 2020
Taste Canada took place at Fare on Old Street this Monday. Westbury Communications laid on a tasting sponsored by the Government of Canada presenting many of the Canadian wines currently available in the UK along with a selection of producers looking for … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Tastings
Tagged Bachelder Niagara, Bay of Fundy, Benjamin Bridge, Burrowing Owl Okanagan, Canada Tasting at Fare London, Canadian Icewine, Clos Jordanne, Domaine Queylus, Flat Rock Cellars, Gaspereau Valley, Haywire wines, Henry of Pelham, Hidden Bench Estate, Icewine, Inniskillin Wines, Janet Fast, Le Vieux Pin Okanagan, Martin's Lane Okanagan, Meyer Family Vineyards, Moray Tawse, Niagara Peninsula, Okanagan Crush Pad, Okanagan Valley, Painted Rock Wines, Pelee Island Winery, Peller Estate, Peller Estates, Quail's Gate Wines, Rebel Pi, Roussanne Icewine, Stratus Wines Niagara, Taste Canada 2020, Tawse Winery, The Bub 2016, Thomas Bachelder, Unsworth Vineyards Vancouver Island, Westcott Vineyards, Wines of British Columbia, Wines of Nova Scotia, Wines of Ontario
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Taste Canada 2019
Taste Canada is now an annual event put on by the Canadian High Commission in London to showcase, in 2019, two-hundred wines from British Columbia, Ontario and Nova Scotia. Forty producers were present, so the seven profiled here provide a … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Canadian Wine, Wine, Wine Tastings
Tagged Annapolis Valley, British Columbia Wine, Cabernet Franc Icewine, Canadian Cabernet Franc, Canadian Icewine, Canadian Sparkling Wines, Canadian Wine, François Morissette, Inniskillin Wine Estates, Janet Fast, John Peller, Lightfoot & Wolfville, Niagara Peninsula, Niagara Wine, Norman Hardie Wines, Nova Scotia Wine, Okanagan Valley, Ontario Wine, Osoyoos Larose, Pearl Morissette, Peller Estates Niagara, Pentage Winery Okanagan, Prince Edward County Wine, Rebel Pi, Riesling Icewine, Roussanne Icewine, Sparkling Icewine, Taste Canada 2019, Twenty Mile Bench, Vidal Icewine, Vidal Variety
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Canada Crush
The Canada House “Taste Canada” event took place this year on 16th May. It was my second year at the tasting. In 2018 I was frankly blown away by some of the wines. The 2019 event was, if anything, even … Continue reading
Posted in Artisan Wines, Canadian Wine, Natural Wine, Wine, Wine Tastings
Tagged British Columbia Wine, Canadian Cabernet Franc, Canadian Gamay, Canadian Wine, Christine Coletta, Haywire Narrative and Free Form Wines, Matt Dumayne, Okanagan Crush Pad, Okanagan Valley Wine, Secrest Mountain Vineyard, Steve Lornie, Taste Canada 2019
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Canada House
Canada House, not a dance music sub-genre, although a few readers might not be too surprised if I went off on a different subject, but the venue yesterday for the Taste Canada 2018 event, organised wonderfully well by Westbury Communications. It featured thirty-seven … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Tastings
Tagged Annapolis Valley Nova Scotia, British Columbia Wine, Canadian Icewine, Canadian Wine, CheckMate Artisanal Winery, Domaine Neige Québec, Gaspereau Valley Nova Scotia, Haywire wines, Hidden Bench Estate Winery, Ice Cider, Ice Cidre, Icewine, Inniskillin Wines, LaStella Winery, Le Vieux Pin Okanagan, Lightfoot & Wolfville Vineyards, Liquidity Wines, Luckett Vineyards, Martin's Lane winery, Megalomaniac Wines, Mission Hill, Niagara Peninsula, Norman Hardie Winery, Nova Scotia Wine, Okanagan Crush Pad, Okanagan Valley, Ontario Wine, Painted Rock Estate, Pillitteri Estate Winery, Poplar Grove Okanagan, Prince Edward County VQA, Severine Pinte, Taste of Canada 2018, Tidal Bay Nova Scotia
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Raw Wine 2017 – Part 1
In the run up to last weekend there was palpable excitement in the London wine fraternity, and doubtless beyond. Raw Wine was in town. Raw, founded and run by Isabelle Legeron MW, is one of the two big annual “natural … Continue reading
Posted in Austrian Wine, biodynamic wine, Canadian Wine, Natural Wine, Neusiedlersee, Swiss Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Festivals, Wine Tastings
Tagged Albert Mathier, Alexander Koppitsch, Burgenland, Gut Oggau, Meinklang, Okanagan Crush Pad, RAW Wine Fair, Rennersistas, Scholium Project, Somlo
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A Crush on You
When I wrote about the Red Squirrel portfolio tasting the other day, I promised to devote another piece entirely to the wonderful Okanagan Crush Pad. I think most of us are probably au fait with what the concept of a crush pad … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian Wine, Wine, Wine Agencies, Wine Tastings
Tagged Alberto Antonini, British Columbia Wine, Canadian Wine, Christine Coletta, Haywire Cannonview Pinot Noir, Haywire Free Form White, Haywire Switchback Pinot Gris, Haywire White Label Gamay, Matt Dumayne, Narrative Ancient Method 2013, Okanagan Crush Pad, Okanagan Valley, Steve Lornie
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David Crossley's Wide World of Wine 