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Nouveau Release 2014

Nouveau Release 2014

This week on November 20th we will be greeted with 9 offerings from France, Italy and Ontario in their local LCBO.  Nouveau has a certain contradiction about it … the hardest wine snobs will turn their nose up at it… but the budding wineaux has no idea that it even...

Nouveau Release 2013

Nouveau Release 2013

The Third Thursday marks the arrival of Nouveau!  I may be one of the few holdouts but I really look forward to the Nouveau release.  I believe that from a wine snob perspective it’s a great litmus test to the quality of the harvest from the year.  Let’s face it...

2012 Nouveau Day – November 15

2012 Nouveau Day – November 15

I still get excited about the third Thursday in November.  Even after getting deeper and deeper into more “serious” wines there is something about Nouveau that I find exciting.  If you’re not familiar with the first wines of the harvest I won’t mince words, Nouveau is basically the Coca-Cola of...

Nouveau Day has Arrived!!! (2011)

Nouveau Day has Arrived!!! (2011)

Sorry I’m a day late with this …  but HERE is where you can purchase your Kerner Nouveau from Reif http://www.reifwinery.com/wines/Kerner_Nouveau  Something I would highly recommend. This week it’s time to take a departure from my usual picks of great Ontario wines.  The third Thursday in November the wineries release...