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Author : Aldo Parise
We’re flying high over the turbulent Andes Mountains. The stewardess is serving the last third of the plane as a rushed Spanish voice comes over the loud speaker. I can see the surprise in...
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Author : Tony Aspler
On October 14, 1997,
Natalie Skeldon entered the world naked. As adult-movie star Savanna
Sampson, Natalie has spent the last eight years of her life in front
of the cameras in the same...
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Author : Tony Aspler
“A
Katyusha rocket will take out forty vines.” That is just one of the
hazards Avi Feldstein, winemaker for Israel’s Segal wines, has to
deal with — along with the deer,...
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Author : Tod Stewart
Some
are massive. Of biblical proportions. Others are almost flat — as
slim as a sheaf of parchment. Some offer an evening of endless
pleasure, while many can be glossed over in only a...
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Author : Tony
In October I
attended a symposium in Chicago organized by Serene Sutcliffe MW. She
had invited ten young wine producers from around the world and asked
them how they were grappling with the...
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Author : Lynn Ogryzlo
Prince Edward County (PEC), the most-talked about new wine region in Ontario, may be scoffed at as being too intemperate for vines to survive there, but wineries like Norm Hardie, the Grange,...
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Author : Tim Pawsey
Chances
are there’s a Grüner Veltliner in
your future. That’s if it hasn’t happened already. Austria’s
mainstay white grape can make a surprisingly complex, often...
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Author : Sean Wood
I have
never understood why Port, always known as “the Englishman’s
drink,” has not been more popular here in Canada. Surely, with our
brutal winters, we need its heart-warming...
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Author : Tod Stewart
The Okanagan has long stolen the thunder
of its neighbouring valley to the west, the Similkameen. But all that
could soon change. This rugged ranching and former gold-mining region
runs...
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Author : Tod Stewart
Inquisitive
wine scribe: So tell me, Dr Frankenwine, how are you able to
create these lavishly oaked, yet very inexpensive wines in a
consistent, uniform style, year in, year out, no matter what...
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Author : Tod Stewart
“It is impossible to
understand plant life without taking into account the fact that
everything on earth is actually only a reflection of what is taking
place in the cosmos.” —...
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Author : Tod Stewart
No wine region in France’s southern Rhône is more recognized than Châteauneuf-du-Pape. The history of the appellation dates back to the fourteenth century when Pope Jean XXII chose...
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Author : Peter Rockwell
I
wasn’t much of a drinker when I was ten.
Milk
was my poison back then but, even so, I began a lifelong fascination
with Champagne one evening when my father let me stay up way...
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Author : Peter Gill
Do you wonder from time to time, Is my 1990 Stag’s Leap Cabernet insured for flood or fire, is my case of 2000 Niagara Brand X Chardonnay worth protecting from thieves?
Well, that...
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Author : Evan Saviolidis
Braving oh-so-tough days of great German wine and tireless portions of food is starting to take its toll on our intrepid writer as he journeys through the Rhineland, wading through never-ending...
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