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Author Archives: CanadianWineGuy
2005 Liberty School Cabernet Sauvignon
Good morning and happy Tuesday. Hopefully wherever you are it is not -23 degrees Celsius with the wind-chill. If it is, well misery does love company so welcome to the party. Yes it is cold! Last night the Mrs. and … Continue reading
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Tagged Cabernet Sauvignon, canadian wine guy, liberty school, wine review
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Hillebrand Winter Glow Dinner (Part 2)
What a relaxing and lazy weekend as I am sure by the lack of information/blogging was apparent. This is the ‘real’ write up on the Hillebrand Winery Restaurant event we went to on Saturday evening. Events like this one are … Continue reading
Hillebrand Winter Glow Dinner (part 1)
Very brief, as I do not have the time to do a proper round up. Parental units plus Mrs and Mr CWG went to this tonight and it was brilliant. I will review this and the wines tomorrow. Enjoy your … Continue reading
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Midi Region Release – Vintages
Just a fast note. A Vintages email arrived this morning and it has an extremely good release for Saturday February 28th. A large selection of wines from this Southern France region and all well priced. See this link for more … Continue reading
PhillyD.tv
No review tonight as it was a martini night. Just wanted to pass on a link to one of the better video-bloggers (or whatever you want to call them) that has an intense and large following. Insightful, humourous and poignant, … Continue reading
2008 Wyndham Estate Bin 525
The follow up to the first of the Wyndham Bin 5xx release is this wine, a Shiraz Grenache blend (51% shiraz 49% grenache). First thing that should shock everyone is the 2008 on the vintage label. WOW. I know that … Continue reading
Posted in Australian, Wine
Tagged Australian, canadian wine guy, wine review, wyndham estate
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2003 Andrew Peller Signature Series Cabernet Franc
We recently got this wine from our wine club and this is the high end series from Peller Estates. It is always nice to see a monthly wine club that is not afraid to send high end wines as a … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian, Wine
Tagged cabernet franc, canadian wine guy, niagara, peller estate, wine review
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Californian Wine Purchases Part 1
As I often travel to California for work I regularly buy wine to bring back. Generally I try and grab a few bottles that are recommended to me and that I cannot get in Canada, though that is hard to … Continue reading
Posted in American, Wine
Tagged californian, grgich hills, stags leap, wine purchases
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2007 Cave Spring Riesling
Must be Cave Spring month! Last night upon my arrival Mrs CWG had a bottle of this open, it is one of her favorite easy drinking, refreshing and casual whites. Cave Spring do several Rieslings from Ice Wine to some … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian, Wine
Tagged canadian wine guy, cave spring, niagara, off-dry riesling, Riesling, wine review
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Buon Appetito – San Diego
I am in transit back home through San Diego. This restaurant in Little Italy is outstanding. I hate being a creature of habit when I am in foreign cities but when you find a great restaurant why risk somewhere else … Continue reading
2006 J.Lohr Seven Oaks Cabernet Sauvignon
Once again I had the chance to try two more Californian wines last night. Thank you goes out to the friends that invited me over for dinner and lively discussion. I brought the 2006 J Lohr Cab Sauv as mentioned … Continue reading
Posted in American, Wine
Tagged Cabernet Sauvignon, canadian wine guy, J Lohr Seven oaks, wine review
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2006 Frog’s Leap Chardonnay
This is actually going to be a double review. One will be for the Frog’s Leap as the title of this blog suggests, the other will be a brief one for a 2005 Charles Krug Pinot Noir. I was kindly … Continue reading
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Tagged californian wine, chardonnay, charles krug, frog's leap, wine review
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Sangria Recipe
I am off on a business trip so I thought I share a quick and easy recipe for sangria. The rest of the week will be small little updates on wines I am drinking on the road. Sangria is great … Continue reading
2006 Edmeades Zinfandel
Mrs CWG was tasked with getting something from our local LCBO vintages section last night. With a planned dinner grilled rib-eye and truffle infused garlic mashed potatoes she came back with this Mendocino County red. Edmeades is a small producer … Continue reading
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Tagged californian wine, Canadian, edmeades, sonoma, wine guy, wine review, zinfandel
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2006 Flat Rock Cellars Chardonnay
A belated Happy Valentine’s Day to all our readers. I recently said during my Cockfighter’s Ghost review that I could recommend 3 to 4 Niagara based Chardonnays that were better then the Pooles Rock wine I thought I’d try and … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian, Wine
Tagged Canadian, chardonnay, flat rock cellars, niagara, wine review
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Happy Saturday
This is not a wine review, just a quick hello and a few pictures. We are having dinner guests over tonight and I have been a busy bee (with the super helper in Mrs CWG cleaning up after me). Apple … Continue reading
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If you look to the right you will now see a “subscribe to” service, apparently I never bothered to activate this before, oops!
2006 Cockfighter Ghost Unoaked Chardonnay
Alright here goes, a bit of background on this wine. Mrs CWG and I had this on our recent trip to Australia. We picked up at a local Sydney bottle shop and went to have a Vietnamese dinner. I did … Continue reading
Posted in Australian, Wine
Tagged Australian, cockfighter's ghost, hunter valley, review, unoaked chardonnay, wine
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2003 Cave Spring Cabernet-Merlot
As I was making a fusilli pasta last night Mrs CWG was going over my recent wine reviews and noted I had not reviewed any Canadian wines recently. Such a travesty needed correction, and thus we pulled this 2003 from … Continue reading
2002 Joseph Drouhin Morey-Saint-Denis
Sitting around last night, Mrs CWG and I decided that we needed to coif a Burgundy and looking through our wine database we settled on trying the 2002 Joseph Drouhin. For those that know me know that I am more … Continue reading
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Tagged Burgundy, canadian wine guy, joseph drouhin, wine review
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2000 Joseph Phelps Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
We brought one of our 2000 Joseph Phelps‘ Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignons to friends the other night as I was thinking it was probably getting close to drinking time (we have/had two so why not try one?!). First off it … Continue reading
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Tagged Cabernet Sauvignon, Joseph Phelps, Napa Valley, review, wine
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2006 Wyndham Estate Bin 515
Someone recently presented me with this wine to review and I thought I’d wait for an evening of relaxing to settle in to do a proper review, one where I had time to pull out the old notebook and give … Continue reading
Posted in Australian, Wine
Tagged australian shiraz, bin 515, review, wine, wyndham estate
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Monday Morning WHAT THE???
Shockingly (note SARCASM alert) the City of Toronto is going to bump property taxes AGAIN this year. So in 2008 and 2009 they will have instituted their own land transfer tax as well as raised property taxes by 3.75 % … Continue reading
Vintages In-Store Bin End Sale
A quick note: Vintages (LCBO, Ontario only) is doing a Bin End sale (see link here) and at first glance there are a few very good deals: LCBO #207944 CHATEAU DES CHARMES MÉTHODE TRADITIONNELLE BRUT 750ml $22.95(was) $18.90 (now) savings: … Continue reading
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Quick Note
I have been travelling and then decided to come home with one nasty virus putting my non-sickness streak to an end. In the past few weeks we have had an excellent 2000 Joseph Phelps Cabernet Sauvignon and a bunch of … Continue reading
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