I escaped to Toronto this weekend. My basic plan was to get away, do some shopping, wander the neighbourhoods and be anonymous for a bit. I love Toronto… I probably should have looked for a job there when I was going into public accounting, but I wanted a smaller firm and more advancement [...]
Archive for November, 2008
toronto gourmet food & wine expo
Posted in other education, travels, wine school, tagged catena, toronto, wine, wine fair, wine tasting on November 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
ottawa food & wine show
Posted in other education, tagged black prince winery, catena, French wine, lcbo, ontario wine, prince edward county, wine, wine fair on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This past weekend was the Ottawa Food & Wine Show, which is generally considered to be Ottawa’s premiere wine event. It was held at Lansdowne Park, in the civic centre, which was a nicely disguised hockey arena. Basically this event is known, on Friday evenings and Saturday, to be an excellent excuse for [...]
the battle for wine and love
Posted in wine books, tagged alice feiring, biodynamic wine, organic wine, robert parker jr., the battle for wine and love, wine, wine books on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished reading this book, The Battle for Wine and Love: Or How I Saved the World from Parkerization by Alice Feiring. I’ve been reading a lot of books about wine and the wine industry – I plan to write about a few that I think worthy of a read occasionally.
Alice Feiring is a wine [...]
