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Wine in Canada:

I've read a few comments about the price of decent wine in Canada. A program I listen to on CBC called House Wine reviews a different wine each week. Here are some of their recommendations:

http://www.cbc.ca/homestretch/wine_archives.html

Do any other BE denizens have decent wine picks or sources for good wine?:fingerscrossed:

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I like this one:

http://www.uncrate.com/men/images/yellowtail-shiraz.jpg

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And this one:

http://www.travelinireland.com/pictu...on-whiskey.jpg

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For routine consumption and good value we usually go with Celliers des Dauphins Carte Noire Cotes du Rhone. It's no Grand Cru, but at about $11 in the LCBO, it's reliable and affordable.

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Leflaive Puligny Montrachet 1998 is one of my faves for the occasional tipple.

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Sounds good - I'll have to try this.

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Ditto plus! But at $240 a bottle it had better be good!

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This is of course presently a purely academic discussion as one cannot buy a bottle of wine in Ontario today. Ridiculous!

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How was Cancun?

I feel your pain on the wine front. I remember arriving in Mexico on election day in 2000. Not only couldn't you buy a bottle of booze but no alcohol sales in restaurants or bars either. Not a pleasant evening.

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Cancun was excellent. We enjoyed an excellent Christmas dinner overlooking the Caribbean without any combination of yam, pecans and cheese being present :)

Luckily I did bring back a bottle of duty free Stoli so that will have to suffice until noon tomorrow when I believe the LCBO may briefly re-open.

Pint this week?

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I'll have to talk with 'er inside. I'll e-mail you. :thumbup:

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Christmas day wine consumption was a disappointing Chilean Cabernet/Shiraz, today at my Brother and Mother-in-laws was a more pallatable Italian Cabernet. I had bought my father a rather nice $50 bottle of Shiraz to drink during his visit, but since he caught H1N1 at an inconvenient time, my folks ended up not visiting us this Christmas. I suspect it wont last until whenever they next do visit.......;)

Our easy drinking wine of choce at the moment is this:http://www.winegirl.ch/Series/Juno/juno5.jpg
Imported and distributed, in NL at least, by a friend of another B-i-L who is ridiculously young to be having fun as a wine importer.

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I have a soft spot for a nearby vinyard. They have a Port ($20 for the 08 but grab a 1996 if you can find it)
but I really like Their Vidal Icewine. Its quite sweet, I'd say its a nice after dinner sipper.
Won't break the bank at $25 either. I recommend the 07.

http://www.jostwine.com/

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I've had that and it's good. Actually at the risk of confusing 2 threads, a (half) bottle of Henry of Pelham Vidal Icewine that I took along with the missing 2005 Bordeaux yesterday did make it to the table. At $19.95 it's very good value.

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This is a fruity little number, will keep well if stored in cool place.

http://www.cadmanfinewines.co.uk/ima...s_big/0001.jpg

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Very good Oink. Do you like the 1947 at all?

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There's quite funny the story about the 47, as there was for the 59 Margaux and the 61 Latour, but not for the prying eyes of the internet.

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Didn't Simon Templar drink that?

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OK more down to earth wines please!;)

There's some really quite drinkable wines for under 20 bucks.

http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/e...eillelabel.jpg

Lavielle Ferme - Cotes de Ventoux

Both Robert Parker and Wine Spectator gave this wine an 87.

$11 in a liquor store near you.

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2006 Domaine de Serame, a Cabernet Sauvignon from Pays d'Oc. About $14 @ LCBO. Goes well with a healthy Guinness Stew.

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I've been drinking this http://www.besttoursofitaly.com/publ...limoncello.gif with this,http://img.idealo.com/folder/Product...trocken-3l.gif and sometimes with this.http://winfieldflynn.com/blog/wp-con...ondonDG-lg.jpg

It's rather pleasant.

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Gin and piss?

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:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: And very big bottles of them.

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edit edit edit, and smallerified.

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Nice! That's what I'm talking about!

Port and lemon - that's what the old dears used to drink at the Ram's Head when I were a young barman (young? - I was 17!:ohmy:)

I'd put a slice of lemon and a cherry on a stick and they'd tip me 10p!;)

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...don't get all coy - what's with the miniatures?

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er 17 yr old barman, was that legal?

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so they fit on the page of course....

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Nope! the lanlord kept asking for my NI number and finally gave up. But I was popular with the "old dears" - they were probably younger than I am now!:o

Now what's your favourite wine miss field mouse?

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Of course, it's only a matter of time before a certain part time Nova Scotian point outs that when I'm in Normandy I imbibe almost as vast quantities of Chateau Val de Carentan as she does.

1.50 euros a go from LeClerc.

Eat your hearts out.

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I'm torn between Hirondelle, Blue Nun or Bulls Blood. Of course there's always Don Cortez white wine and Ribena as a flavoursome tipple.

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You don't like Schloss Laderheim? Or Franciscan Burgandy?:confused:

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I don't know anything about European footballers. Do they play for Man United or Newcastle?

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I suppose it would be churlish of me to point out that fledermaus in German means "bat", not field mouse?

Siebenschlaefer =dormouse is what you're wanting.

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Or Sunderland?

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Maybe in German!:rofl:

What kind of language calls a bat "fledermaus!":o

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I think you've answered your own question. German. :rofl:

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and in
French chauve-souris
Spanish murcielago
Dutch vleermuis
Swedish FLADDERMUS
Norwegian flaggermus
welsh ystlumod
Latin vespertilio


according to google

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Your quite a ...


Yes, we've seen that old line before!

Back to wine.

Who likes milk of the young frau?

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Never had it. For a long time. Do you mean "loved lady milk"?