Joe's Wine

Colheita, when referring to port, indicates a port from a single vintage, but it is not a "Vintage Port". So what does this mean w...

New world and old world, Rieslings a world apart... On my left the 2008 Trimbach Alsace Riesling was softer, more subtle - honey and hints ...

It's hard not to post when the wines are this good (and I needed an excuse to try my iPhone Blogger app), another outstanding flight sup...

Our tasting group got spring off to a great start, raiding our cellars for some great stuff to pair with MY favourite Montreal BYO, À L...

My buddy Lloyd and I have shared so many good bottles together, he has such a good cellar, and we have bought so many wines together, that w...

This Aglianico bottling ranks among my favourite wines of all time - always a treat to open one of these, and it was especially enjoyable to...

Such a terrific nose on this 2008 Clos de Gat Har'el Merlot - sweet cocoa, ripe black cherries, cooked meat, black pepper, and a hint ...

Petit Verdot is a rare grape, and even rarer to find in a "single varietal" wine, so I happily grabbed a bottle of the 2003 Pirram...

Sometimes you have to stop waiting for that "special occasion" and just open your bottle of bubbly! No special occasion tonight, j...

" Mead " is a word that conjures up times of old - medieval knights pounding the table, heartily emptying mugs topped up with an a...

I cannot say that my infrequent updates of this site are directly related to the decreasing frequency of our wine group meetings, but it is...

On the nose are smokey ripe blackberries and violets, flint, cedar and a hint of anise. Ample fruit, but the fruit doesn't dominate the...

Getting together with my buddy Eden is always great fun - Eden is a recovering Shiraz-oholic and a blank canvas upon which I can impose my v...

I have a lot of respect for the Tissot house in Jura ( 1 , 2 ), so it was a no brainer to pick up this sparkling offering for a test run. Th...

Western wine markets see little Chinese wine, so little that many of us could be forgiven for thinking there was no such thing. But OF COURS...