Feature  
Far and Away

 

 

The majority of wine consumed in Canada is imported. But the old expectations of what's what from where are being undermined by the blurring of Old World and New World styles.

 

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News & Events  
Vintages Goes Online

Vintages has has just launched an online ordering service. You can't order any of their in-store or catalogue wines, there's about a two- to four-week wait, and you can't have product delivered to your home. But some of the online wines are terrific.

 

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Wine on the Web  
Fine Wine Fraudster Busted

Well, sort of. Fine wine swindler Hardy Rodenstock, who's been in the crosshairs of some angry rich folk over fraudulent wine for some time now, has been nailed over glue on labels... 

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News & Events  
"The Ex" for Winos

The Gourmet Food & Wine Expo - the annual blowout of wine and food at the convention centre - runs from the 20th to the 23rd of November and this year's theme country is France.

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News & Events  
Fine Wine Time @ Ritchies

Canada's biggest commercial wine auction is on soon and it's bigger than ever. Run by Ritchie's in conjunction with Vintages, it's the annual auction of "Finest and Rarest Wines"

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News & Events  
Make Mine a Bailout!

With major western countries putting up bailouts and buyouts of their banking and mortgage sectors, and China's announcement of a $580 billion "stimulus package", Dalton McGuinty's Ontario wine bailout got overlooked.

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News & Events  
LCBO to BC: Drop Dead

Like Ottawa residents bringing beer back from Hull without a second thought, visitors to the Okanagan had wines shipped home to Manitoba and Ontario. Well, someone at the LCBO dusted off an old lawbook...

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News & Events  
VQA-Only Wine Stores

Tim Hudak (MPP, Niagara West-Glanbrook), a conservative at Queen's Park, is again promoting a plan to allow "VQA-only" stores around the province.

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Wine on the Web  
Restaurant Wine Racket

It's a subject that generates a large amount of frothing rage from a small percentage of indignant customers - restaurant wine mark-ups. In some cases, the mark-up can be as high as 400%. Ouch!

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BLOG  
Casa Lapostolle

Alexandra Marnier Lapostolle, the very glamorous parisienne who runs Casa Lapostolle in Chile, was in town recently to promote her company's finest red with a vertical of Clos Apalta.

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Wine on the Web  
Downturn? Not for Wine Sales

There's pretty clear evidence that the States has slipped into recession, yet US wine sales remained strong right through the summer. That looks like it's changing now...

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