Perhaps there is some comfort looking at this bottle of 2022 Small Lot Gamay Noir from Ontario’s Stoney Ridge. Those grapes saw some summer sun and warmth “cold comfort” to Torontonians facing minus twenty temperatures tonight. I prepared a salad tonight and given the deep freeze I had very little enjoyment of it preferring theContinue reading “RKS 2025 Wine: Stoney Ridge Estate Winery 2022 Small Lot Gamay Noir”
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RKS 2024 Wine: Malivoire’s Courtney Gamay from Niagara
Many ex-Canada readers are certainly familiar with Niagara Falls as one of Canada’s primo tourist sites. But how many realize Niagara Falls is surrounded by a virtual waterfall of wineries producing world class red, white, sparkling and ice wines. 20 minutes from the Falls, if that, wine country abounds with wineries many of which haveContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Malivoire’s Courtney Gamay from Niagara”
RKS 2024 Wine: The Great Gamay Comeback in Ontario?
Was it a decade or so ago that Gamay in Ontario looked like the next oenological prince of the Ontario wine kingdom? Then it faded like Harry and Meaghan and then made a comeback like Camilla? No discussions please on royalty who in Canada are seen as ready to meet the fate of Marie AntoinetteContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: The Great Gamay Comeback in Ontario?”
RKS 2024 Wine: Frogpond Croaker of an Ontario Gamay! Colonoscopy Memories
Generally speaking, organic wines are cleaner tasting than non-organic. How many dead wines do we encounter? Probably too many. Spray and spray and eventually kill the soil. God help you if you have any vegetation growing between rows of vines. Why would you want to have sheep munching on the growth between the vines? ForgetContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Frogpond Croaker of an Ontario Gamay! Colonoscopy Memories”
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