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Thursday, 23 July 2009 |
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I recently received an e-mail that advertised a website offering "unbiased" reviews of wines. It's not the first time that I've seen the word used to describe reviews, along with the word "objective." |
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Thursday, 16 July 2009 |
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Here's an interesting query from a reader: "The LCBO inserts in the newspaper always do a good job of making even the most common product seem like 'one of the best ever.' But today's insert got me thinking ... " |
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Thursday, 09 July 2009 |
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It's finally summer and I've been served my first bottle of tepid red wine. I won't divulge the guilty restaurant, but I'm sure it won't be the only time it happens during the next two months. |
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
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I've just come back from two weeks of travelling in France and Italy, only a few days of which were devoted to wine. (I really do have a life outside wine.) This is not to say that wine didn't appear at some point every day; it's hard to imagine sitting down to a meal in Provence or Tuscany without a glass or two of the regional or local wine. |
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Thursday, 25 June 2009 |
I'm writing this from Tuscany, where I've been staying at Castello di Gabbiano, an estate in Italy's Chianti Classico wine region that dates back to the 12th century. (I've been living in a relatively modern building, constructed as recently as the 1500s.) You don't get much older than this in terms of continuously producing vineyards, so it's an ideal place to discuss the meaning of "old world" and "new world" as applied to wine.
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Thursday, 18 June 2009 |
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Here's a great idea for Ottawa restaurants: whenever a customer orders a bottle of wine with a meal, give her or him a bottle of the same wine -- free -- when they leave. If they drink two bottles, give them two bottles. Watch how happy they are as they leave, even if the meal hasn't been perfect and the service was mediocre. |
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Thursday, 11 June 2009 |
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When I started pushing rosé a number of years ago, I wrote almost defensively about it, because rosé was not a popular colour. Many of the rosés readily available were somewhat sweet, and that, together with the pink colour, meant that it was very definitely thought of as a wine more suited to women than to men. The most common rosé was (and is) white zinfandel, and it fitted the stereotype perfectly. |
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Thursday, 04 June 2009 |
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I'm still in New Zealand as I write this column. To date I've visited wineries in five main regions -- Waiheke Island, Marlborough, Central Otago, Hawkes Bay and Gisborne -- and the big picture is coming into focus. |
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Thursday, 28 May 2009 |
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I'm writing this from New Zealand, where I'm touring the main wine regions. When this column appears, I'll be in Gisborne, judging in the International Chardonnay Challenge and tasting more chardonnays per hour than I'd ever thought I would do. |
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Thursday, 21 May 2009 |
You might have seen all the media gasping a week or two ago when it was announced that, in a blind-tasting of chardonnays in Montreal, an Ontario wine beat out the mainly French competition. The French wines were from Burgundy, where nearly all the whites are 100-per-cent chardonnay.
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