“Burgundy is easy!” is how Nicolas Dewe of Bourgogne de Vigne en Verre started each of his two tasting events this week at Merchant Tavern and Raymond’s. The region has a reputation of being hard to understand, with many sub-regions and tiny appellations, and labels dominated by village names instead of domains and producers. Nicolas […]
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Gold Medal Plates rolled into St. John’s on Friday past with its culinary and wine competition, entertainment, and fund-raising efforts. Proceeds from this and similar events across the country, and the national final, support the Own the Podium program for Canada’s Olympic athletes. The focus of […]
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The local chapter of the Opimian Society hosted one of its wine tasting events this past Saturday night. Area Representatives Dave Conway and Courtney Escott were our hosts for an intimate gathering featuring wines from one of the Society’s long-time Australian suppliers – Wines by Geoff Hardy. Wines by Geoff Hardy has four labels: GMH, […]
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Steve Delaney
October 28, 2016
France
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