Celebrate your Valentine’s Day with the joy of food, wine, and music! To quote Shakespeare, “If music be the food of love, play on.” So, to set the mood for the evening, we will delight in live music from Kat Chabot. Book soon since tickets will go quickly! For both nights, we are donating a portion of each ticket sold to…
Celebrate your Valentine’s Day with the joy of food, wine, and music! To quote Shakespeare, “If music be the food of love, play on.” So, to set the mood for the evening, we will delight in live music from Kat Chabot. Book soon since tickets will go quickly! For both nights, we are donating a portion of each ticket sold to…
This month’s feature, The Roost, is a boutique winery located in a place where you may not think of grape growing – The Blue Mountains, near Collingwood. It’s owned by the husband and wife team, Jessica, the winemaker, and Michael, the vineyard manager. They planted their home vineyard in 2013/14 and The Roost opened to the public in 2017. With…
Enjoy a great value 3 course menu paired with local wine to beat the winter blahs! It will be held over 2 nights; so, you simply choose the best night for you, order, pick up dinner and wine at Bacio, and join us on Zoom to enjoy a restaurant quality meal at home. Chef William will prepare some classic Italian…
Enjoy a great value 3 course menu paired with local wine to beat the winter blahs! It will be held over 2 nights; so, you simply choose the best night for you, order, pick up dinner and wine at Bacio, and join us on Zoom to enjoy a restaurant quality meal at home. Chef William will prepare some classic Italian…
This month we’ll take a journey back in time to see who we should thank for the wine we’ll be enjoying this Christmas season. This idea came from a book by wine writer Oz Clarke that proposes the ancient civilization responsible for the “discovery” of wine. The usual suspects are the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. There is certainly evidence that…
We continue to focus on local since we have so many amazing Ontario wineries to explore. This month we feature Niagara’s 13th Street. The winery is owned by the Whitty family and their patriarch, Doug, is both the President and the Vineyard Manager. As a 3rd generation grape grower, he takes vineyard management seriously and completely identifies with the philosophy…
Our ongoing series continues to spotlight local Ontario wineries; this month we feature Cave Spring Vineyards and a selection of their wines (plus a few extra Local and International wines). The founding partners of Cave Spring, Len Pennachetti and Angelo Pavan (who is also the winemaker), have a vision for their winery. They feel, like the vintners in the world’s…