I don’t make any bones about the fact that I really enjoy Ontario wines. Looking at the tastings listed in Grape Juice, you would think that’s all I drank. While that’s not really that far off the truth, there are several factors that bias me in that direction. First and foremost is proximity. I’m less
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It seems like every time we head down to Niagara to do some tastings, there are some vineyards that impress, and some that we swear we’ll never spend another of our hard-earned pennies at. This last trip was no different and in fact provided several prime examples of the sorts of chivalry and chicanery that
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Mark Fisher’s post over at Uncorked about a study that examined how restaurants can entice diners to buy more wine to accompany their food couldn’t have come at a more timely moment for us Grape Juice folk. We had just had dinner at one of the uber-restaurants in Toronto, recognized as a fab wine place
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Held in Toronto from November 23rd-26th, the Gourmet Wine & Food Show was a public event billed as “Toronto’s Best Party”. Why has it taken me so long to post about it? Frankly I needed a little time to consider how I was going to approach the subject and I also needed to try an
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February 5th marked the first day that Ontario residents will be paying more, but helping the environment, with every wine & spirit purchase. Billed as ‘an important environmental initiative’ the government organized Bag It Back (Ontario Deposit Return Program) system will see a price hike of twenty cents on every bottle of wine sold in
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Please don’t. Sometimes it happens by accident, simply through a lack of knowledge about web etiquette, propriety and how the whole URI system works; other times it’s a conscious effort to scrape visual content from one site and plop it onto another without costing the receiving site any precious bandwidth. Either way, it’s totally unacceptable.
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