Aroma: This platinum-coloured wine has aromas of mango, peach, white grapefruit, pear and wet stone. Palate: Rather full bodied with some power. It is zippy and a bit cutting but underneath the acidity there is peach, grapefruit and a hint of lychee. Moderate finish. Personality: More cutting and sharper than Italian Pinot Grigio. Food Match:Continue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Canadian Pinot Gris From Niagara”
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RKS 2024 Wine: You Hear “Barbera” Think Piedmont
As Italian wine goes hear “Barbera” think Piedmont with the best Barbera wine being produced near the towns of Asti and Alba. Barbera is Piedmont’s most widely planted variety and technically takes third place in prestige to Barolo and Barbaresco. Often prestige and palate are incompatible. We try a Barbera D’Asti from Michele Chiarlo. Aroma:Continue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: You Hear “Barbera” Think Piedmont”
RKS 2024 Television: AMI’s “Postcards From…”: Season Five Episode 4: Salt Spring Island, British Columbia
In the fourth episode of season 5 of “Postcards From…” showing on the Accessible Media Incorporated television network and streaming service host Christa Couture takes us to Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. It is quaint and relaxing and the drone photography and commentary of Couture makes it a tempting Canadian tourist destination. Couture takes painsContinue reading “RKS 2024 Television: AMI’s “Postcards From…”: Season Five Episode 4: Salt Spring Island, British Columbia”
RKS 2024 Wine: The Cheapest Quality Bubby in Town?
Most likely a toss up between Prosecco and Cava. We try a Cornaro Prosecco DOC Treviso. Prosecco is more often platinum in colour as this Prosecco is. Aroma: Lime, lemon and marzipan. Palate: A cleansing wave of acidity. Almond, peach, banana split and sweet white grapefruit. Personality: Although I am simply the best on aContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: The Cheapest Quality Bubby in Town?”
RKS 2024 Film: Toronto’s Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival: “Dalton’s Dream”
Jamaican Dalton Harris wins the 2018 X Factor UK “talent contest”. He had been preparing for an X Factor UK appearance for seven years winning several Jamaican talent contests including “Rising Star”. Now translate the X Factor UK win into stardom, fortune and fame! Pictures circulate showing Dalton hugging a man and sitting on theContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: Toronto’s Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival: “Dalton’s Dream””
RKS 2024 Wine: Encruzado to the Rescue?
So many Portuguese white wines have a functional element of suitability with food and their thinness and acidity making many of them a superb match with seafood a commodity which Portuguese menus are rarely lacking. Rabigato, Viosinho and Arinto do not exactly make stellar sipping wines. I had the privilege of visiting the Dâo wineContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Encruzado to the Rescue?”
RKS 2024 Film: HOTDOCS 2024: “Silent Trees”: A Minefield to Somewhat Normalcy
Sixteen-year-old Runa fled ISIS controlled Kurdistan with her parents and four younger brothers. Trapped in a forest between Belarus and Poland her mother is felled by hypothermia and later dies in a Polish hospital. The family had spent 18 days in a frozen forest attempting to enter Poland. The Polish government had previously retaliated againstContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOTDOCS 2024: “Silent Trees”: A Minefield to Somewhat Normalcy”
RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS: “Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story”
Jackie Shane (born Jack Shane) was born in Nashville in 1940 abandoned by his 16-year-old unmarried mother being brought up by relatives. By eight years of age he was singing in a church choir adding to his musical background of spiritual music played often by his grandmother. Shane purchased some drums to start his musicalContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: HOT DOCS: “Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story””
“Travels to a Different Time” : 25July2005: Lagos, Portugal: BBQ Chicken and Saturday Night at the Bullfights
By God, another buffet breakfast. Yes they are excellent but when will they ever end? Almost as if there is too much choice with foods we simply do not have in Canada. The cheeses and the eggs are unbelievably good. The watermelon was particularly sweet this morning. There was a Brit dad with his youngContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : 25July2005: Lagos, Portugal: BBQ Chicken and Saturday Night at the Bullfights”
“Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog”: The Final Cut: Off to Hollywood for the Academy Awards! Stopping off to See President Biden First! Joe Grateful We Avenged His Trumpian Nickname of “Sleepy Joe”: New Chain “Noodles for Peace” to launch in North Korea: Chapter Seventy Two (72)
Nicole Kidman Productions Ltd. has sent a corporate jet to take Bob, Fay, Dylan the Westie, Mr. Gordon Lightfoot with our friend Bosco and Martin Malivoire to Los Angeles but our friend President Biden has asked us to stop at Dulles International in Washington to take a quick tour to the White House and toContinue reading ““Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog”: The Final Cut: Off to Hollywood for the Academy Awards! Stopping off to See President Biden First! Joe Grateful We Avenged His Trumpian Nickname of “Sleepy Joe”: New Chain “Noodles for Peace” to launch in North Korea: Chapter Seventy Two (72)”
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