The Nouveau wines are released today. I still look forward to this release every year. This year feels a little exciting and there is definitely something a little different about the 2017 vintage, especially from France. The wines this year are a little more austere and this may be a...
Recently I posted my thoughts on the fantastic Beaujolais producer Dominique Piron. I also mentioned that the wines are not available in Canada. It turns out, I was wrong. While I still wish that these bottles were available at the LCBO the people at Lifford (LINK) have brought in a...
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...
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...
I am the kind of guy that likes to Barbeque year round. Growing up in Saskatchewan shoveling the yard meant clearing the driveway for the car and clearing a path from the back door to the BBQ. Needless to say that regardless of the season my Dad is king of...
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...
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...
