This week featured some bargain wines from the recent Wine Fest, as well as some lovelies at a wine/dinner pot luck with friends. I picked the Sheep Thrills Pecorino 2016, Terre di Chieti IGP, Abruzzo, Italy as a good value wine during the wine show and I am sticking to my conclusion after sampling this […]
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December 30, 2017
Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Opimian Society, Other Countries, South Africa
C254 falls into the spot in the offering season once occupied by the annual “Special” offering – so-called because it included a lot of high-end and unique products. This offering contains similar selections such as champagne, cognac, calvados, and whisky from France and Scotland. My comments below are based on my experience with previous vintages/versions […]
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December 10, 2017
Argentina, Canada, Chile, France, Italy, Newfoundland, Opimian Society, Spain
The last month has been very active on the local wine tasting scene with many private and public events, and it looks like the next month or so will be just as busy! Opimian Society Dave Conway, local Area Representative of the Society, hosted a tasting of Spanish wines at the NLC’s Howley Estates premises […]
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I tend to favour Old World wine styles, at least based on the contents of my cellar. Even so, you will find a noticeable percentage of New World wines there, and even more in my “everyday drinking” racks. Almost two years ago I spent a month in Australia and New Zealand, including visiting 45 wineries, […]
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November 17, 2017
Argentina, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Other Countries, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, USA
The annual NLC Wine Show kicked off yesterday with Special Selections night (the special selections will be covered in my next blog entry). There was a full house in attendance, but the numbers worked well in the Delta ballroom and it was easy to approach a table and get the sips you wanted. There were […]
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More Whisky at Bacalao We recently returned to Bacalao for another tasting of fine whiskys paired with a multi-course dinner menu. A range of spirits from Canada, Japan, Scotland, and Tennessee featured a very rare 40 Year aged Canadian Club (pictured above) and other special selections. This was my introduction to Japanese whisky and the […]
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Nicolas Dewe was back in St. John’s recently for an encore presentation of wines from Bourgogne de Vigne en Verre (BVV), hosted once again by Greg Winter of Dialog Wines. Nicolas was here in October of 2016 and I was very impressed with his selections and the tasting events: Burgundy is Easy! BVV is a […]
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Here in Newfoundland and Labrador we know that Canada is making some very good wines, even if we don’t see many of them available locally. Every once in a while a special bottle will be slipped into one of our blind tastings of wines from around the world and be comfortable with the comparisons. British […]
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Bordeaux wines are one of the more frequent themes here, and its not just because I happen to like their style (I like wines from just about everywhere!). There are 7,000 wineries in Bordeaux, and most of them would dwarf typical wineries in Canada and similar countries. Annual production of 5.7 million hectoliters places the […]
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I admit to having a particular fondness for South African wine, in case it hasn’t already been obvious. My taste for the country developed following a week in the Western Cape wine district back in 2008. A steady trickle of wonderful wines through both the Opimian Society and the NLC has kept up my interest […]
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Steve Delaney
January 14, 2018
Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Opimian Society, Portugal
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