Artificial Intelligence has a bit of a double-edged sword. AI will decimate the middle class if it has its way. What a profit seeking corporation needs is rock bottom low labour costs. Eliminate costs, increase profitability and pump-up bonuses to the “senior management team” and throw a few extra pesos to shareholders. Worth celebrating forContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: A Toast to the Disappearing Middle Class of North America and EU: To the Liquor Control Board of Ontario Please Note We Weren’t Born Yesterday!”
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RKS 2023 Wine: We Aren’t Impressed by That Gold Medal Seal and a 92 jamessuckling.com or are We?
Hopefully wine drinkers are not swayed by a “Gold Medal” seal and a 92 James Suckling seal on the bottle of the Knappstein Clare Valley 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon. There is nothing inscribed on the “Gold Medal” seal to indicate who issued it. Could it be from some children’s colouring book? As for a jamessuckling.com 92Continue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: We Aren’t Impressed by That Gold Medal Seal and a 92 jamessuckling.com or are We?”
RKS 2023 Wine: An Outstanding Ontario Merlot: To Dream The Impossible Dream?
As for outstanding Ontario Merlot about the only one that turns my crank is Merlot from Niagara-on-the-Lake’s Two Sisters but not being a cardiologist or a captain of industry can you afford $57.80 for a bottle of their Merlot? Ontario Merlot may be suitable for blending but then is blending with a less than stellarContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: An Outstanding Ontario Merlot: To Dream The Impossible Dream?”
RKS 2023 Wine: Trius Red “The Icon”: The Strong Man and The Two 99 Pound Weaklings
I think there won’t be much hooting and booing when I say Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot aren’t exactly two of Ontario’s great grapes unless under the cover of “terroir” you bless their weakness by stating they have a distinct Ontario imparted quality to them. Bah Humbug says me the Wine Scrooge. On the other handContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: Trius Red “The Icon”: The Strong Man and The Two 99 Pound Weaklings”
RKS 2023 Wine: Agiorgitiko From Nemea in Greece
Nemea is a wine producing region in the Peloponnese. This Driopi Agiorgitiko is from Nemea. Agiorgitiko has medium to deep ruby colour, dense ripe red-fruit character and sweet spices that lead towards a soft almost velvety palate with finely textured tannins, medium to full body and medium high alcohol. It can handle oak very well,Continue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: Agiorgitiko From Nemea in Greece”
RKS 2023 Wine: A Douro White: Part of the Minority Club
Douro reds overwhelm Douro whites in terms of volume. The whites are in the minority in the Douro but as white wines of the Douro matter it is only fitting, we try a Cabral Reserva from the Douro a blend a Arinto, Rabigato, Gouveiro and Vioshino. You’ll find these white grapes in almost all DouroContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: A Douro White: Part of the Minority Club”
RKS 2023 Wine: Chile Can Seem to do Little Wrong
As we move on closing 2023 Chilean red wines sparkle with many wines at a modest price and a high quality. In the hope I don’t have to eat my words we move to a red by the name of Sideral from San Pedro Tarapacá from the Valle del Cachapoal. It is a blend ofContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: Chile Can Seem to do Little Wrong”
RKS 2023 Wine: Where Have the Douro Table Wines Gone?
I don’t have piles of statistics and charts to determine why in Ontario’s Liquor Control Board Douro wines have slowed down to a trickle in the province of Ontario. Not that they were gushing in but it seems to me the Douro is faltering. Some of the LCBO old guard point fingers at the youngerContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: Where Have the Douro Table Wines Gone?”
RKS 2023 Wine: Is This Sicilian Wine Suffering from Moderate to Severe Back Pain?
Planeta is one of Sicily’s most recognized wineries. Perhaps I picked up a bottle of their Plumbago because it reminds me of an affliction called lumbago somewhat of a relic of a disease categorization these days. Remove the P from the wine’s name and you have lumbago an affliction affecting the back. If you don’tContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: Is This Sicilian Wine Suffering from Moderate to Severe Back Pain?”
RKS 2023 Wine: Man of La Mancha and Wines of La Mancha
Man of La Mancha was a 1965 Broadway Musical. The wine we try now is a Cimal Tempranillo from the Spanish wine region known as La Mancha. Which is the better dancer? The answer is up to you. Aroma: This just about purple coloured wine is very much infused with blackberry, black currant and blackContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: Man of La Mancha and Wines of La Mancha”
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