Worlds of Wine
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Getting wine right in restaurants
October 17, 2007.
I've eaten out a lot recently, and it's given me a concentrated look at wine service in a range of Ottawa restaurants. As you'd expect, it's a mixed bag, and I wonder how many of my experiences are typical. The...A store where you can taste, but not buy
October 10, 2007.
Wine producers in Prince Edward County did an interesting thing a couple of weeks ago: they opened a wine store. How could they do that, in a province where private wine stores (apart from the restricted number of stores owned...Debunking more wine myths
October 03, 2007.
A few weeks ago I wrote about wine myths, including the beliefs that wine is mysterious and that consumers have gone off chardonnay. I asked readers to send me any other myths they'd noticed in circulation, and I had a...Southern France by the numbers
September 26, 2007.
Southern France continues to produce some of the best buys in the LCBO. In addition to the good selection on the General List, there are some nice offerings in the Vintages release this Saturday. The release has a special feature...Caliterra, a great wine value from Chile
September 19, 2007.
I had dinner a few weeks ago with Sergio Cuadra, chief winemaker at Caliterra, one of Chile's larger wineries (it produces 400,000 cases of wine a year -- almost five million bottles). Almost all Caliterra's wine is exported, and Canada...