Tag Archives: 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”

RKS 2023 Wine: The Clarity of Organic Wine: Southbrook Triomphe Gamay from Niagara

If there is a constant impression I receive from organic wines it is they have a pureness and clarity to them. They are sharp and lively. It is not a question of omnipresent superiority. Many non-organic wines taste like they are dead and terribly blunt and dull. Constant soil abuse through spraying and use ofContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: The Clarity of Organic Wine: Southbrook Triomphe Gamay from Niagara”

RKS Wine: Christmas Dinner and Wine

I recall in my formal wine education days I had an instructor that seriously remarked any wine goes at Christmas as guests are so tanked up before the real dining starts they’ll drink anything! I never subscribed to that point of view. Christmas dinner preparation can be backbreaking and unless you’ve been involved in preparingContinue reading “RKS Wine: Christmas Dinner and Wine”

RKS Wine: Niagara Riesling: Shall We Get on The Merry Go Round Again?

I think it may be time for me to cease writing about Niagara Riesling. I have scuppered my chance of ever winning a Niagara Academy Award for astute and insightful reporting on Niagara Riesling. Much of it reminds me of a white Basque Txakoli which is so acidic it is poured into the glass aContinue reading “RKS Wine: Niagara Riesling: Shall We Get on The Merry Go Round Again?”

Ontario Moving into Stage One of Reopening on June 11th

NEWS RELEASE Ontario to Move to Step One of Roadmap to Reopen on June 11 Improvements in Key Indicators Allowing Province to Begin the Safe and Gradual Lifting of Public Health Measures June 07, 2021 Office of the Premier Table of Contents Content Quick Facts Additional Resources Related Topics TORONTO — Based on the provincewideContinue reading “Ontario Moving into Stage One of Reopening on June 11th”

“Dig Our Roots” : Wineries of Niagara-on-the Lake Annual Celebration

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 23, 2021 Wineries of Niagara-on-the-Lake ‘Dig Our Roots’, the Annual Celebration of Niagara-on-the-Lake’s Wine Appellation, is back! NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, ON- Wineries of Niagara on-the-Lake is ready to welcome back VQA wine lovers to safely taste exceptional wines grown in the heart of wine country. During the ‘Dig Our Roots’ weekends in April,Continue reading ““Dig Our Roots” : Wineries of Niagara-on-the Lake Annual Celebration”