Each Thirsty Thursday we help you get ready for the weekend ahead with a round up of the best wine reviews and pairings from your fave winos, oenophiles and beyond . . .
Reviews
- “Wine: Bordeaux need not break the bank to be good”
- “Jackson-Triggs Chardonnay, L.A. Cetto Cabernet: Best LCBO Wines January 19”
- “Nine Toronto restaurants with smart, minimalist wine lists where it’s harder to go wrong than right”
- “A Shy Italian, Made for Everyday”
- “Decent boxed wines do exist. Here’s why Ontarians can’t get them “
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A Curious Coupling … That Works
Weird and wacky wines
Dark, cold outer space is the new wine and spirits frontier.
The extra-terrestrial terroir taste in Meteorito, a cabernet made at Chile’s Tremonte winery, comes from a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite from the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars.
Winery general manager Ian Hutcheon, owner of the nearby Centro Astronomico Tagua Tagua and anxious to join his two passions, submerged the 3-inch space rock in some of his 2010 cabernet for a year.
