Time for another wine thread
Oct 22nd 2017, 10:08 pm
#151
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Re: Time for another wine thread
For those folk who live in go-ahead, forward thinking provinces like Quebec and New Brunswick where you can buy wine at the supermarket, things are even better 2 or 3 years in.
More stores involved now but, as well, the supermarkets are now offering some of the same labels as the liquor store whereas originally it was just local stuff or wines from other countries not sold in the liquor stores.
Carry on like this and we'll have full choice in a couple of years.
More stores involved now but, as well, the supermarkets are now offering some of the same labels as the liquor store whereas originally it was just local stuff or wines from other countries not sold in the liquor stores.
Carry on like this and we'll have full choice in a couple of years.
Oct 22nd 2017, 11:16 pm
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Oct 23rd 2017, 12:03 am
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Re: Time for another wine thread
My usual RCSS has had a beer aisle since last week. The assistant was quite offended when I asked if it was real beer, not the pretendy stuff they had stocked. Still haven't bought any though as that would require me to go to a till with an actual person, with whom I may be forced to interact, rather than my usual self-service.
Oct 23rd 2017, 12:35 am
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Re: Time for another wine thread
We live in the middle of what they call the Lake Erie North Shore Wine Route.
Our house is no more than a couple of kilometers from 4 vineyard/wineries.
Colchester Ridge Estate - North 42 Degrees - Viewpointe Estate - Oxley Estate.
We don't buy wine from anything other than our locals.
Our favorite is Late Autumn Harvest Riesling from Alexsander Estate which is owned by a friend of my wife and her husband and is a little further away, but worth the drive.
Our house is no more than a couple of kilometers from 4 vineyard/wineries.
Colchester Ridge Estate - North 42 Degrees - Viewpointe Estate - Oxley Estate.
We don't buy wine from anything other than our locals.
Our favorite is Late Autumn Harvest Riesling from Alexsander Estate which is owned by a friend of my wife and her husband and is a little further away, but worth the drive.
Oct 23rd 2017, 12:51 pm
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Dec 17th 2017, 10:08 pm
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Re: Time for another wine thread
Happy to report that I had a very nice Hardys Stamp Shiraz-Cabernet tonight.
I was always willing to break my UK rule for Hardys (don't pay less than £5 for white or £6.50 for red) but as with so many other wines over the last few years I lost my taste for it.
I bought a bottle the other day in another attempt to find a cheaper one to make up for paying $25 for Kim Crawford. $11.99 I think.
It was really good. Smooth. Wondering if it's worth reinvestigating the Chardonnay now.
I was always willing to break my UK rule for Hardys (don't pay less than £5 for white or £6.50 for red) but as with so many other wines over the last few years I lost my taste for it.
I bought a bottle the other day in another attempt to find a cheaper one to make up for paying $25 for Kim Crawford. $11.99 I think.
It was really good. Smooth. Wondering if it's worth reinvestigating the Chardonnay now.
