Wine magazines and catalogs try to educate you about wine, but their true goal is to sell wines. Colour, aroma, and taste are all described to give buyers a sense of the wine on offer. They use descriptors like “laced with ripe pear, “”Apples and honey on the nose,” “complex aromas of spiced oak and…

There are several dozen wine tour options for the Niagara wine region. Almost all are offering transportation to and from wineries, plus wine tastings at them. Vehicles range from large buses (20-40 people), minivans ( 8-16 Passengers), SUVs, Wagons, and passenger cars. There are limousines, English style taxi-cabs, and even a Jeep or two. Hardier…

Support Your Local Winery All Niagara wineries are now under lockdown for the next few weeks. A few of the larger wineries have LCBO listings to help them along. For most smaller producers only pick up of telephone orders and on-line orders are allowed. Some wineries do have vigorous wine club sales. This is a…

Wine tasting is not the same as drinking wine. Drinking wine is sharing a bottle of your favourite wine with a friend and settling down to relax.Tasting wine is trying small samples of other wines to educate yourself about wines you may not have known. If you are lucky, you’ll find one or two to…