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Cellared in Canada = Cash Cow

 

New Tory leader Tim Hudak’s membership in the Facebook group “Boycott Cellared in Canada Wines” could be a worry for the producers of this controversial wine if Dalton stumbles. And now there’s the issue of government subsidies.

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Wine on the Web  
New Brunswick to N.J.

Gary Vaynerchuk is a New Jersey-based wine merchant turned critic with an online "tv show". He's become a big star on the American wine scene and this week he gets all Canadian with talk of hockey and icewine and two brothers from New Brunswick.

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Mission Hill SLC Syrah

It's always nice to get a care package of big red wine from British Columbia and Mission Hill delivered...

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Wine on the Web  
Bottle Shock in Montreal

Just as a panel of French wine judges surprised themselves and the world by choosing California wines over some top French names in 1976, Quebec judges chose Ontario over all other white wines.

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Boys' Night Out

It's the third annual Boys' Night Out by Lifford Wine Agency. The blowout in the Distillery District is for prostate cancer research - and many fine wines will be harmed in the process.

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Ontario Sparkles

In a very casual tasting with a small group at the Fine Wine Reserve, Ontario sparklers stood up well against a formidible and glam overseas challenger.

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Chardonn...gay?

Chardonnay is often seen as a "ladies' drink"  while the he-men reach for big cabs and shirazes. Niagara producer Daniel Lenko has come right out and called it gay.

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Wine on the Web  
Coppola: Celebrity Claret

Easily the most successful of the celebrity wine producers, Francis Ford Coppola may be based in Napa now, but he still knows his way around Hollywood.

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Pairings on the Go

My Blackberry - a year and a half old - is too antiquated for apps. But I have seen their usefulness on iPhones... Prolific Ottawa critic Natalie Mclean has just launched a Drinks Matcher app.

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Wine on the Web  
Wine Auctions 2.0

A new service launching in July promises to take the secondary wine market in a whole new direction - with a virtual wine warehouse and online trading.

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Parker: Judgement in Paris

The venerable wine critic surely wishes he were comparing French and American wines, but Robert Parker has been ordered to stand trial in Paris in July...

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