Category Archives: Wine

RKS 2023 Wine: So What if the Wine You Bottled is Incredible? A Cave Spring Example of What Needs to be Done to Create a Buzz

Making a good wine these days is simply not enough. The distance from a winery to a consumer’s gullet may be a very long one and in most cases it, never happens. You must think of creating some “buzz”. Flies migrate to honey and certain other substances. Wine drinkers gravitate towards buzz. I recall manyContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: So What if the Wine You Bottled is Incredible? A Cave Spring Example of What Needs to be Done to Create a Buzz”

RKS 2023 Wine: A Lighter Style of Australian Cabernet Sauvignon?

In the past 20 years Coonawarra has earned the reputation of producing less brutish Aussie Cabernet Sauvignon. On occasion a big jammy Aussie Shiraz or Cabernet Sauvignon hits the spot but risks the moniker of an overdone wine. In this case a 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon from Wynns Coonawarra Estate deserves a try. Aroma: Blueberry, blackContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: A Lighter Style of Australian Cabernet Sauvignon?”

RKS 2023 Wine: “Dough” Chardonnay: A Great Chardonnay on the Rise!

What a name for a winery…dough. Yes yeast is used in the fermentation of wine. It can be natural or added. Yeast is also used helping the bread dough to rise. However dough is not a taste you really want in a white wine although if you read reviews of sparkling wine you might encounterContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: “Dough” Chardonnay: A Great Chardonnay on the Rise!”

RKS 2023 Wine: A Steady Flow of Bordeaux at Reasonable Prices: A Burly Bordeaux

“Lower echelon” Bordeaux continues immigrating to Canada holding its own against “value” reds from Argentina, Chile and Spain. Bordeaux has a grand reputation and huge prices for its top “first growth” wines that has a few wine consumers running merely hearing the word “Bordeaux”. Most of the “lower echelon” wines are fairly good to excellent.Continue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: A Steady Flow of Bordeaux at Reasonable Prices: A Burly Bordeaux”

RKS 2023 Wine: What is Going on at the Second Annual Wine and Travel Week in Porto?

What is the annual Wine and Travel Week? A conference and a key wine tourism event bringing together influential professionals and decision makers from around the world. It is a week of intense networking for vendors seeking to sell wine tourism products and buyers that are in the market to buy wine tourism products. ItContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: What is Going on at the Second Annual Wine and Travel Week in Porto?”

RKS 2023 Wine: Canadian Wine Tourism Falling Behind the Pack: Inattentive Guys Finish Last

The concept of wine tourism involves more than simply visiting a winery sampling wines and perhaps taking a tour of the vineyard and the cellars. Pardon my triteness but if you visited a few wineries have you visited them all? Terribly boring and repetitive after a time. Wine tourism necessitates businesses, tourist authorities, restaurants, wineries,Continue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: Canadian Wine Tourism Falling Behind the Pack: Inattentive Guys Finish Last”

RKS 2023 Wine: Global Inclusion is Not Profitable! A St. Laurent from Austria

You would expect a state liquor monopoly like our brave and fearless Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) would be a champion of “global inclusion” a popular term these days rammed down our throats not because it is indeed a worthy concept but rather a corporate game historically designed to meet bidding requirements of governmentalContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: Global Inclusion is Not Profitable! A St. Laurent from Austria”

RKS 2023 Wine: The Bad Oak Stink of A Bubonic Plague New Zealand Pinot Noir! Oak Murder of a Wine!

Wine can stink with a variety of contaminants. I recall having a Hester Creek Merlot from British Columbia a few years ago. It was jacked up with so much sulfur the wine tasted like hot dog juice. Oak can compliment the juice or it can embarrass itself by overpowering a wine. I tried a Nor’WesterContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: The Bad Oak Stink of A Bubonic Plague New Zealand Pinot Noir! Oak Murder of a Wine!”

RKS 2023 Wine and RKS 2023 Film: “Crush: Message in a Bottle”: Life and Death in Wine

In the Canadian documentary “Crush: Message in a Bottle” the philosophy and life stories of Ann-Marie Saunders of Saunders Vineyard, Thomas Bachelder of Bachelder Wines and Le Clos Jordanne, Kelly Mason of Mason Vineyards and Shiraz Mottiar of Malivoire Wine Company and Mottiar Vineyard discuss their approach to making wines in the Niagara wine appellationContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine and RKS 2023 Film: “Crush: Message in a Bottle”: Life and Death in Wine”