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…

Bachelder Les Villages Gamay

Bachelder Les Villages Niagara Gamay Noir 2021 Price: $25.95Channel: Bachelder Wines Producer: Bachelder WinesCountry: CanadaRegion: NiagaraAppellation: Niagara Peninsula VQA Grapes: GamayAlcohol by Volume: 12.5%Sugar Content: 2 grams per litre Thomas Bachelder is surely one of Canada’s masters of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, having honed his craft in Burgundy, Oregon, then ‘home’ to Niagara. Lately, he’s become a kind of scholar of the Niagara Peninsula, carefully sourcing fruit from small, family…

Sanjoanne Terroir Mineral 2020

Quinta Sanjoanne Terroir Mineral 2020 Price: $26.03 (including tax and delivery fees)Channel: Buyers + Cellars Producer: Casa de CelloCountry: PortugalRegion: AmaranteAppellation: Vinho Verde Grapes: Loureiro, AvessoAlcohol by Volume: 12.5%Sugar Content: <1.5 grams per Litre The Terroir Mineral is a Vinho Verde because it is made within the boundaries of the region in Northern Portugal, and it is made from two of the half dozen or so grapes that are allowed…

Yalumba Bush Vine Grenache

Yalumba Samuel Smith Collection Barossa Bush Vine Grenache 2021 Price: $26.95Channel: LCBO Vintages Producer: YalumbaCountry: AustraliaRegion: South AustraliaAppellation: Barossa Grapes: GrenacheAlcohol by Volume: 14.5%Sugar Content: 3 grams per litre The Yalumba winery has remained in the Hill-Smith family for six generations, and this series of wines named after its founder focuses on old vines. The Grenache vines from which the 2021 Bush Vines was made were planted between 1920 and…

Bersano Gavi di Gavi

Bersano Gavi di Gavi 2022 Price: $22.95Channel: LCBO Vintages Producer: BersanoCountry: ItalyRegion: PiedmontAppellation: Gavi DOCG Grapes: CorteseAlcohol by Volume: 12%Sugar Content: 2 grams per litre The white wines of Gavi in Piedmont, made from the regionally indigenous Cortese grape, are said to have been developed for the seafood restaurants of Genoa on the Ligurian Coast not far over the mountains away. Bersano’s version might do very well with fresh seafood…

El Petit Bonhomme

x El Petit Bonhomme 2020 Price: $16.95Channel: LCBO Vintages Producer: Les Vins BonhommeCountry: SpainRegion: MurciaAppellation: Jumilla DO Grapes: Monastrelle (55%), Garnacha (30%), Syrah (15%)Alcohol by Volume: 14.5%Sugar Content: 4 grams per litre The Australians might have GSM, but the Southern Spanish have MGS: Monastrelle (aka Mourvèrdre), Granacha (Grenche) and Syrah. At least they do in this delicious aggressively priced juicy red from Nathalie Bonhomme’s wine making company, Les Vins Bonhomme.…