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Nov
2007
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Category: On the Road with the Grape Guy
I have written a few times about my love for Spain and Spanish wines … I have a number of reasons for that. Spain is re-emerging as a wine powerhouse, I’m not saying their wines are gonna take the world by storm (a la Australia), nor will the world compare their wines to those of Spain on a regular basis (a la France); but Spain is, for the most part, a value region where what you get in the bottle far outstrip what you pay.
Spain is also one of the few regions of the world where Reserve (Reserva) actually means something … (Read more)
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03
Nov
2007
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Category: On the Road with the Grape Guy
Select Wines have a new look. After 25 years on the job of putting good value wines from all over the world in the hands of Canadians – Select Wines launched a more interactive, user friendly, easily updateable website (www.selectwines.ca), by inviting folks down to their office for a launch party, which included a boardroom table of nibblies and a few bottles of wine in each of their offices (I’m sure this is commonplace at a wine agent, though these bottle were open) … the real surprise was the best taste of the day wasn’t a grape wine.
Highlights of the office-roam-about were ... (Read more)
For more interesting adventures thru the world of wine check out the On the Road With the Grape Guy blog.
