Our winter this year has been especially tough, but I hadn’t really thought about what it might be doing to the vineyards across Ontario until a winery owner mentioned it to me at Cuvée a couple weeks ago. Though most agree it’s too early to tell the true extent of the damage, all the winemakers […]
Ingrid Sapona
Going Vertical
Yesterday I mentioned in a blog that 31 wineries are participating in the Cuvée en Route passport event this weekend. After looking through the brochure and really wrapping my head around the two different types of tastings the wineries were offering up: Vertical Tastings and Winemaker’s Selection, I decided to stop at a few wineries […]
Here’s what they poured at Cuvée 2014
As noted in my last post, the Cuvée 2014 Gala featured 51 Ontario wineries. Each winery poured only one wine — their favourite. I promised I’d publish the list after the event because I think readers would like to know what the different winemakers would encourage people to try, if you were only able to […]
Cuvée en Route 2014
Cuvée en Route is a passport event involving 32 wineries this weekend — March 1-2, 2014. At the wineries passport holders can sample themed flights that are either Horizontal tastings (different vintages of the same variety) or a Winemaker’s Selection. Here are the wineries featured in Cuvée en Route 2014: Calamus Estate Winery Calaneri Estate […]
Spoiler Alert?
Cuvée 2014 kicks off Friday, February 28 with the 26th Annual Cuvée Grand Tasting – a black tie gala at the Fallsview Casino Resort. The participating wineries (there are 51 on the list) will be pouring one wine each – one they’ve chosen as their favourite. I love that idea – it’s kind of the […]
2014 Niagara Icewine Festival
If you’ve been housebound this past week because of the arctic blast that’s blanketing much of North America, take heart – the forecast is for milder weather soon. And fortunately, for those who might be anxious to get out and about, the Niagara Icewine Festival kicks off this weekend The festival, which features wineries from […]
Picked but Too Cold to Press!
The day after I wrote about icewine picking happening in Niagara I got the Georgian Hills Vineyards’ newsletter saying they’d be picking icewine grapes on Saturday morning and that they welcomed volunteers. Having always wanted to do that, I responded to Robert Ketchin’s e-mail and said that he could count me in – unless the […]
What a Sweet Thought on these Cold Nights
I was just reading the newsletter from Crush on Niagara Wine Tours and Andrew Brooks mentioned that with the incredibly cold weather we’ve had the past few days they’ve started picking icewine grapes down in Niagara! Though I’m kind of glad I’m sitting here warm and cozy next to the fireplace rather than out picking […]
In the Spirit of Getting it Right
I was writing up an app entry for Still Waters Distillery and when I went to put a link to their website I noticed that they spelled whisky without an e between the k and the y. Confused, I went to my liquor cabinet and pulled out two bottles of “the stuff”: a bottle of […]
A Great Time to Stock Up
I’m on the mailing list of many wineries and it was in a July e-mail from Daniel Lenko Estate Winery that I first realized that from time-to-time wineries put their wines on sale – often at very good prices. (Back in July Daniel Lenko was selling his 2006 unoaked Chardonnay at half off. Clearly he […]