Few countries have as long and tangled history with wine as Italy, where the wine industry has been flourishing for close to four millennia. While small-scale...
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Big On Burgundy
When wine snobs get together to talk about wine, there are always a few regions that need no introduction. Places like Bordeaux, CĂ´tes du Rhone, or Burgundy...
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Seasonal Cheers and Beers
Your intrepid liquor reporter loves this time of year. No, gentle reader, it’s not that I’m partial to the snow, treacherous roads, and cold...
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Sour On Sweet
If there is one thing that was repeated ad nauseum to novice wine drinkers, it is that a good wine will be dry. In the halcyon days of my squandered youth...
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Fight For Your White To Party
Your intrepid liquor reporter makes no secret of his love for the red Bordeaux blends, but we should not forget all the fine white wines that are out there. In...
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The Blind(man) Leading the Blind
Your globetrotting liquor reporter had to make a business trip to Deadmonton last week, home of our provincial capital, and the recently repatriated Wayne...
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Man On A Mission
Your intrepid liquor reporter made his annual pilgrimage to the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia last month, on a tasting tour of the area wineries during...
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The Blind(man) Leading the Blind
Your globetrotting liquor reporter had to make a business trip to Deadmonton last week, home of our provincial capital, and the recently repatriated Wayne...
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Malty Mega Mergers
We live in interesting times, gentle reader. Like many of you, my first foray into the world of boozing was a frosty bottle of Molson Canadian, that iconic...
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#99 Whisky & Wine
Those readers who were not living under a rock in the 80s and 90s will remember Wayne Gretzky, aka Number 99, aka The Great One, aka the greatest hockey player...