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Author : the Tidings Staff
Last-minute shopping
for the gourmet in your life is futile when you don’t know what to
get them. Tidings to
the rescue once again! There is something here for everyone. Who
knows, you...
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Author : Kendra McKnight
“I only have four days.” This is what was going through my mind as I touched down in Pescara on the east coast of central Italy. Though only two hours’ drive from Rome, Pescara...
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Author : Kendra McKnight
By day, Elena
Faita-Venditelli runs one of the most original hardware stores you’re
likely to come across: the Quincaillerie Dante, a family-owned
Montreal institution that caters to...
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Author : Evan Saviolidis
Its
location on the western edge of the Iberian Peninsula, a weak economy
in the early 1900s and a military dictatorship that lasted for almost
forty years essentially put Portugal in...
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Author : Tony Aspler
Flying
winemakers, move over! There’s a new wine celebrity in town: the
flying image-maker. His name is Bernie Hadley-Beauregard and he has
an MBA in Marketing and International Business,...
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Author : Tod Stewart
A major
international corporation known historically for the production of
some of the world’s finest luxury goods is facing tough times. Its
most visible and respected brand is losing...
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Author : Tod Stewart
Tod
Stewart talks to Sven Bruchfeld, the young winemaker at the helm of
Chile’s dynamic Viña Santa Carolina. Here is his conversation.
Can
winemaking be considered an extreme...
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Author : Sean Wood
Long
gone are the days when Spanish wines were heavy clunkers, over-oaked,
high in alcohol and frequently oxidized. Historically, hot arid
conditions and rudimentary resources had given...
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Author : Sean Wood
As a wine country,
South Africa today defies easy explanation. The convenient Old or New
World tags really don’t fit here.
The wine culture of
the Cape goes back at least 300 years....
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Author : Sean Wood
Nothing
quite gets a party going during the festive season like the
gladdening pop of sparkling wine. This year, rather than counting
your pennies to see if you can spring for one or maybe two...
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Author : Robin Mines
You’ve all heard
the current buzz, right? Forty is the new thirty. Fifty is the new
forty. Sixty is the new fifty. That’s some pretty nifty math, don’t
you think? It puts a...
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Author : Lynn Ogryzlo
It
can range from the palest pink to a beautiful soft coral to cherry,
perhaps with a hue of tangerine or grapefruit. The colour of rosé
is the wine’s most romantic, most poetic...
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Author : Lynn Ogryzlo
What
you might ask, could possibly be so different about an Icewine
tasting? A few wines, a dialogue leading you through one liquid icon,
towards those unique and then aged. Everyone...
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Author : Evan Saviolidis
“And
I sacrificed a goat to St Urbain, the Patron Saint of Wineries.”
Daniel
Speck, owner of Henry of Pelham Winery
Keeping
ones sense of humour in light of adversity is...
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Author : Tod Stewart
Over two million Canadians have diabetes.
For thirty-two years I’ve been a card-carrying member of the
no-sugar-tonight club. The thing that always surprises people when...
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