In today’s Liquor Control Board of Ontario’s monopoly any wine under $15 falls into the Penniless Pensioner Category. The question of course is it any good. Cheap does not mean plonk. It may help there is no glowing review accompanying its description in the LCBO Vintages Catalogue which might keep the cost down. Geez itContinue reading “RKS Wine: More Penniless Pensioner Wines: South Africa’s Alvi’s Drift Signature Cabernet Sauvignon 2019”
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Stag’s Hollow From British Columbia Hits the Mark!
7 JULY, LONDON: Full results from the Decanter World Wine Awards 2021 have been released today, revealing big wins for established wine regions but also many hidden gems from producers making exciting wines across the globe. This year marks the biggest ever Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA), which is already the world’s largest and most influential wineContinue reading “Stag’s Hollow From British Columbia Hits the Mark!”
COVID-19 And Fungal Infections
COVID-19 and Fungi: A Nightmare in the Making India’s “black fungus” crisis signals a global problem INTERVIEW BY ANNALIES WINNY | JULY 1, 2021 Facebook Twitter Linked In Email Pinterest As India battles a devastating wave of COVID-19 cases, another crisis is waiting in the wings that could far outlast the pandemic—in the form of a chronic fungalContinue reading “COVID-19 And Fungal Infections”
Passage of the Day: Charles Dickens “Bleak House”: A Sarcastic Poke at the Law
“Equity sends questions to law, law sends questions back to equity: law finds it can’t do this, equity finds it can’t do that: neither can so much as say it can’t do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing and that counsel appearing for B; and soContinue reading “Passage of the Day: Charles Dickens “Bleak House”: A Sarcastic Poke at the Law”
RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner Selection: Greece’s Thalia Rosé
You know in Canada the Canadian government Canada Pension Plan pays way under the poverty line. If you haven’t had the income to stuff your Registered Retirement Savings Plan or Tax-Free Savings Account or never benefitted from a private pension plan you may be close to penniless when you retire assuming of course you aren’tContinue reading “RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner Selection: Greece’s Thalia Rosé”
“Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 77 “Jiber Fabricates and Transforms into René Hecklevesque”
The Jiber continued, “The Brits arrived in Quebec after the French and after a long struggle culminating in the Battle of the Plains of Brahms defeated the French. But they were calculatingly polite letting the French retain their language, schools and religion. The Brits should have crushed them like flies and wiped them out butContinue reading ““Mutantism on the March” :Chapter 77 “Jiber Fabricates and Transforms into René Hecklevesque””
“Building A Life Worth Living: A Memoir Marsha M. Linehan”; Trying to Control a Suicidal Person
“Later, working as a therapist, I fell into the same trap. When you become afraid that a client may commit suicide, you become anxious, and as your anxiety increases, your urge to control the client increases, too. So for awhile, my experience with clients was the same one the Institute had with me. I eventuallyContinue reading ““Building A Life Worth Living: A Memoir Marsha M. Linehan”; Trying to Control a Suicidal Person”
“Building A Life Worth Living: A Memoir by Marsha M. Linehan”; The suicidal mind
“A suicidal person is like someone trapped in a small room with high walls that are stark white. The room has no lights or windows. The room is is hot and humid, and the boiling heat of the floor of hell is excruciatingly painful. The person searches for a door out of life worth livingContinue reading ““Building A Life Worth Living: A Memoir by Marsha M. Linehan”; The suicidal mind”
RKS Wine: Hot For Hungary? Drinking outside the box
Hungarian wine dribbles into the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) at a slow pace. Shame. While I enjoy the red Kéfrankos and the legendary Tokaji sweet white wine we really don’t see much more than that. This time it is a Zelna Bárka Red blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Merlot. Are weContinue reading “RKS Wine: Hot For Hungary? Drinking outside the box”
RKS Wine: A Couple of 92’s from Spain
Imagine as a wine producer no wine reviewer picks up your wine. Well that’s not so bad if your wine is good. Favourable news travels by word of mouth. If you receive a negative review distributors want to keep that off the radar. If you get a 90 plus it is as if you haveContinue reading “RKS Wine: A Couple of 92’s from Spain”
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