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RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner Goes Overboard with His Tuscan Wild Boar Stew! Stanley Tucci a Special Guest for Dinner!

If you have been following Penniless Pensioner you’ll know he has gone from more or less rags to riches as his Bitcoin investment made him a wealthy man so he is no longer penniless but he insists upon drinking wine under $20 and stocking his wine cellar with wines carrying that price limit so heContinue reading “RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner Goes Overboard with His Tuscan Wild Boar Stew! Stanley Tucci a Special Guest for Dinner!”

RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner Low Life Wine Fraud and Wild Tuscan Boar Stew

PP phoned me up the other day in an excited mood. Looks like he has a new girlfriend Celine Serpent a wealthy widower living in Rosedale. You might want to say she invested a paltry $200,000 with Bernie Madoff and being on the upper end of the Ponzi scheme she doubled her money. He saidContinue reading “RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner Low Life Wine Fraud and Wild Tuscan Boar Stew”

A Couple of Aglianicos From Campania: Stuck in the Tyranny of 89 Point Wines

Aglianico might well be one of Campania’s signature red grapes. Ontario receives very little Campanian wine. The Liquor Control Board of Ontario prefers other Italian wine regions particularly Tuscany. Aglianico was brought from Greece to Italy by the Phoenicians. In fact Aglianico is the corruption of the Italian word for Hellenic “Ellenico”. Our first AglianicoContinue reading “A Couple of Aglianicos From Campania: Stuck in the Tyranny of 89 Point Wines”

RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner: A Stunningly Delicious and Affordable Wine from Campania

A couple of years ago courtesy of the EU I was off to Naples, the capital of the Campanian wine region in Italy. Such incredible food, archeological sites and of course wine. I was at Southern Italy’s biggest wine show Vitingo in Naples and was also ferried about to some incredible wineries and co-operatives. FantasticContinue reading “RKS Wine: The Penniless Pensioner: A Stunningly Delicious and Affordable Wine from Campania”