This week's wine pick is perfect for all your spring flings this season! The Fresh Ideas Sparkling Riesling is one of my go-to sparkling wines for parties. This bubbly is always a crowd pleaser, compliments a wide variety of foods and has an excellent price point. The Fresh Ideas Sparkling Riesling has flavours of citrus, … Continue reading Wine of the Week: Fresh Ideas Sparkling Riesling
This week's wine pick is one of my favourite Ontario Pinot Noirs and go-to spring reds. The Pelee Island Pinot Noir Reserve is a medium-bodied dry red wine made with 100% VQA grapes. You'll first notice it's beautiful ruby colour, followed by lovely scents of cherry, vanilla and chocolate. This wine has flavours of red … Continue reading Wine of the Week: Pelee Island Pinot Noir Reserve
This week's wine pick, the Malivoire Vivant Rosé, is all about living life in pink! Vivant means 'alive' and this wine is alive with everything we love about Rosé. Firstly, it is the prettiest pink colour! Made of Pinot Noir grapes, the Malivoire Vivant Rosé has lively pink flavours of strawberry, cranberry, pink grapefruit and … Continue reading Wine of the Week: Malivoire Vivant Rosé
This week's wine is one of my favourite Ontario Rosés! It comes from Featherstone Winery owned by husband and wife team, David Johnson and and Louise Engel, in the Twenty Mile Bench. Featherstone is a boutique winery that creates limited small-lot wines using insecticide-free and eco-friendly farming. The hands-on artisanal winemaking process that Featherstone uses, … Continue reading Wine of the Week: Featherstone Rosé
You will be enchanted by this week's wine. A blend of Sauvignon Blanc and Riesling, the Foreign Affair Enchanted white wine is dry with lots of flavour. It's easy to fall for it's spell of jasmine flower, gooseberry, honeysuckle, lemon and mandarin orange! Especially when this spell of delicious spring flavours ends with a nice … Continue reading Wine of the Week: The Foreign Affair Enchanted
Spring is in the air! While I drink all wines all year, there are a few specific wines that I crave during the spring season. These wines tend to be light-bodied with earthy and floral notes. From a rainy spring walk through the forest to a sunny May picnic in the garden, these types of … Continue reading My Favourite Wines for Spring
This week's wine pick, the Cave Spring Chardonnay Musque, is another perfect wine for spring drinking! But what is Chardonnay Musque? Chardonnay Musque is a clone of the Chardonnay grape that gets it's name because of the wine's musky perfumed aromas and Muscat-like flavours. It's a very aromatic white wine with a medium-body that can … Continue reading Wine of the Week: Cave Spring Chardonnay Musque
I usually try to pick a wine of the week that's available at the LCBO, but I had to make an exception for this week's wine. Last weekend I visited the Grange of Prince Edward Winery in Prince Edward County and tasted their Cabernet Franc. Cabernet Franc red wine grape that's usually used in a … Continue reading Wine of the Week: Grange of Prince Edward Cabernet Franc
If any wine is going to turn you into a Merlot lover, it's going to be the Jackson-Triggs Grand Reserve Merlot. This Merlot is a full-bodied red wine with ripe fruit flavours of blackberry, raspberry and cherry. It then finishes smoothly with notes of mocha, cocoa and vanilla. The Jackson-Triggs Grand Reserve Merlot is available … Continue reading You Had me at Merlot: Jackson-Triggs Grand Reserve Merlot
The Konzelmann Merlot will easily woo you with it's elegant, gentle and smooth characteristics. You can't help but fall for the velvety flavours of pomegranate, cherry and vanilla with a touch of liquorice. The Konzelmann Merlot is a medium-bodied red wine with low tannins and good acidic structure. And it's great for food pairing! From … Continue reading You Had me at Merlot: Konzelmann Merlot
