Mas des Bressades Rosé 2024
Mas des Bressades Cuvée Tradition Rosé 2024 Price: $19.00Channel: LCBO Vintages Producer: Mas des BressadesCountry: FranceRegion: Southern Rhône ValleyAppellation: Costières de Nîmes Grapes: Grenache (50%), Syrah (30%), Cinsault (20%)Alcohol by Volume: 13.5%Sugar Content: 2 grams per litre This widely distributed rosé from the mouth of the Rhône River has been a summer stable in my house for many years because it’s a proper rosé in two respects. First, it’s made in the traditional saignée (bleeding) method. This is when…
Cardo White 2023
Cardo White 2023 Price: $16.95Channel: LCBO Vintages Producer: Quinta do CardoCountry: PortugalRegion: Castelo RodrigoAppellation: DOC Biera Interior Grapes: SíriaAlcohol by Volume: 12.5%Sugar Content: 2 grams per litre I wrote about Artur Gama at in this piece for The Hub when I met him in Toronto in the fall of 2023. The Lisbon-area winemaker was showing wines from his new, high altitude project further north in the Upper Douro. It was called Cardo for the thistles that grew in the vineyards at…
Lungarotti Torre di Giano 2023
Lungarotti Torre di Giano 2023 Price: $17.95Channel: LCBO Vintages Producer: LungarottiCountry: ItalyRegion: UmbriaAppellation: Torgiano DOC Grapes: Vermentino, Grechetto, Trebbiano (% not revealed)Alcohol by Volume: 12.5%Sugar Content: 2 grams per litre I’ve been to Umbria a handful of times. Only once on a press trip, but it was for olive oil not wine. So, in my travels to Italy’s only landlocked region I have largely been in charge of ordering the wine. I cannot recall ever getting a bottle or…
Château Le Grand Verdus GlouGlou 2020
Château Le Grand Verdus GlouGlou 2020 Price: $15.95 (reduced from $17.95)Channel: LCBO Vintages Producer: Château Le Grand VerdusCountry: FranceRegion: Bordeaux (Entre-deux-Mers)Appellation: Bordeaux Supériore AOC Grapes: Merlot (80%), Cabernet Sauvignon (20%)Alcohol by Volume: 13.5%Sugar Content: 3 grams per litre I don’t know how I missed this wine when it was released a few onths ago, and I don’t why it hasn’t sold out. It’s delicious, very fairly priced (even before the discount), and from one of the world’s most famous…
Kelerei Bozen Pinot Grigio 2023
Kelerei Bozen Pinot Grigio 2023 Price: $21.95Channel: LCBO Vintages Producer: Kellerei Bozen (Cantina Produttori Bolzano)Country: ItalyRegion: Alto Adige (Südtirol)Appellation: Alto Adige DOC Grapes: Pinot GrigioAlcohol by Volume: 13.5%Sugar Content: 4 grams per litre The Kellerei Bozen is among the vanguard of Western Europe’s new wave of serious co-operative wineries. It’s members literally grow their grapes on the slopes that form the valleys surrounding Bolzano and they intend to compete with the fine producers that have made the Alto-Adige one…