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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”

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: California Cabernet Sauvignon and My Self Imposed $25 Guideline

I am not one that ordinarily judges a wine by its price but there are exceptions to the rule or is it rules to the exception? One RKS Wine guideline for Cali Cabernet Sauvignon is that don’t expect much under the $25 guidepost. I suppose given the latest increases in wine prices in our provinceContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: California Cabernet Sauvignon and My Self Imposed $25 Guideline”

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”