Deux Roches Mâcon-Villages

DEUX ROCHES MÂCON-VILLAGES TRADITION 2022 Price: $27.95 ($25.25 without HST)Channel: LCBO Vintages Producer: Collovray et TerrierCountry: FranceRegion: BurgundyAppellation: Mâcon-Villages Grapes: ChardonnayAlcohol by Volume: 13%Sugar Content: 5 grams per litre Sunshine lemon citrus and stone licking minerality: this Deux Roches Mâcon-Villages is a kind of Platonic ideal of a food friendly, straight forward, well made Chardonnay. At $25 it’s a bargain, but anywhere under $30 it’s great value. I liken it to a stainless steel version of Pouilly-Fuissé. It’s genererous, but also…

Cave de Lugny Chardonnay

Cave de Lugny Mâcon-Lugny Saint-Pierre Chardonnay 2022 Price: $23.55Channel: LCBO Vintages Producer: Cave de LugnyCountry: FranceRegion: BurgundyAppellation: Mâcon-Lugny (Mâcon-Villages) Grapes: ChardonnayAlcohol by Volume: 13%Sugar Content: 2 grams per litre Lean and lemony, this white burgundy is a classic from the renown and respective co-operative in Lugny, one of the better known of the eleven communes that make-up the Mâcon-Villages appellation. Cave de Lugny is a good example of the new…

Argo Langhe Nebbiolo

Villadoria Argo Langhe Nebbiolo 2020 Price: $20.95Channel: LCBO Vintages Producer: VilladoriaCountry: ItalyRegion: PiedmontAppellation: Langhe Grapes: NebbioloAlcohol by Volume: 13.5%Sugar Content: 2 grams per litre In this province, a 473 ml (16 oz) can of Black Cherry flavour White Claw Hard Seltzer costs $3.35. So, a six pack costs $20.10, which is just 70 cents less than a bottle of the Villadoria ‘Argo’ Langhe Nebbiolo 2020. À chacun sont goût, and…

Tres Olmos Verdejo

Garciarévalo Tres Olmos Verdejo 2021 Price: $14.95Channel: LCBO Vintages Producer: GarciarévalosCountry: SpainRegion: RuedaAppellation: Rueda DO Grapes: VerdejoAlcohol by Volume: 12.8%Sugar Content: 2 grams per litre Spanish whites might be having a moment. At least they are at my house, where we look for good value and fresh fruit character. This fresh organic white gets a few months on its lees to round out its character, and the result is remarkably…

Muga Reserva 2019

Muga Rioja Reserva 2019 Price: $28.95Channel: LCBO Vintages Producer: Bodegas MugaCountry: SpainRegion: La RiojaAppellation: Rioja DO Grapes: Tempranillo, Garnacha Tinta, Mazuelo, GracianoAlcohol by Volume: 14.5%Sugar Content: 3 grams per litre The British wine writer, and Spanish wine expert, Tim Atkin MW calls the 2018 Muga Reserva “textbook”. That is a much more intersting way of saying classic, which was my note when I tasted it earlier this year. The Muga…

Caruso & Minini Catarratto

Caruso & Minini Naturalmente Bio Catarratto 2021 Price: $21.95Channel: LCBO Vintages Producer: Caruso & MininiCountry: ItalyRegion: SicilyAppellation: Sicilia DOCG Grapes: CatarrattoAlcohol by Volume: 12.5%Sugar Content: 8 grams per litre Catarratto competes with Sangiovese as Italy’s most planted grape variety, and nearly all of it is in Western Sicily. Once a mainstay of sweet, fortified Marsala wine, the grape is being taken seriously as a dry wine variety as the island’s…