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Feb 20, 2024 | 
winealign.com | David Lawrason |John Kent Szabo |Megha Jandhyala
France Featured, South Africa on Sale, B.C. on WatchBy David Lawrason, with notes from Sara d’Amato, John Szabo and Megha JandhyalaVINTAGES February 17 mid-winter release is short on heavy hitters but supplies some very good value wines within its regional French feature, and a few elsewhere. While shopping for these wines at my local Kingsway LCBO store in West Toronto, I spied some crazy sell-offs of premium South African wines.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
winealign.com | John Kent Szabo
And Buyer’s Guide for 2021 Futures and Top Current VintagesBy John Szabo, MSThe majestic château of the Left Bank fuel the Bordeaux dreams of wine connoisseurs worldwide.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
winealign.com | John Kent Szabo
By John Szabo, MSI remember my first trip to Budapest in the late 1970s, travelling with my family to visit my grandparents. Strangely, my memories are etched in black and white; this distant, exotic city behind the iron curtain seemed to me trapped in the past, a remote place that colour television had not yet reached. Long rows of identical, box-shaped apartment blocks stretched down non-descript streets.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
winealign.com | John Kent Szabo
Stock Up On As Many 2019 Brunellos As You Can AffordBy John Szabo, MSThe latest edition of the annual Benvenuto Brunello event featured the extraordinary 2019 vintage of Brunello di Montalcino, one that will go down among the best of the last decade and sit alongside the now legendary 2016s.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
winealign.com | John Kent Szabo |Sara d’Amato |Megha Jandhyala
John Szabo’s Vintage’s Preview Nov. 4: Is it Okay to Gift Alcohol? By John Szabo, MS with notes from Michael Godel, Sara d’Amato, and Megha Jandhyala The theme of the Vintages November 4 release is “giftable wines.” Though, I wonder, is it socially acceptable now to give alcohol as a gift in light of the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction’s recent update to its Guidance on Alcohol and Health? “There is a continuum of risk associated with weekly alcohol use,” according to the guide.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
winealign.com | John Kent Szabo |Michael Godel |Sara d’Amato |Megha Jandhyala
Multiple Alignments and Sicily’s Latest and BestBy John Szabo, MS with notes from David Lawrason, Michael Godel, Sara d’Amato, and Megha Jandhyala The VINTAGES Oct. 7 release picks up again on the “Classic Wine Regions” theme, which is LCBO parlance for European wine regions.
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Jun 16, 2023 | 
winealign.com | John Kent Szabo |Michael Godel |Sara d’Amato |Megha Jandhyala
John Szabo’s VINTAGES’ Preview June 18: Picnicking on Father’s Day: Load Up The Wagons!By John Szabo, MS with notes from David Lawrason, Michael Godel, Sara d’Amato and Megha JandhyalaThis Sunday, June 18, marks Father’s Day in Canada, a day to celebrate not only one’s biological father, but also father figures and paternal bonds, and the place of fathers in society.
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Apr 24, 2023 | 
winealign.com | John Kent Szabo |David Lawrason |Michael Godel |Megha Jandyhala
By John Szabo, MS, with notes from Sara d’Amato, David Lawrason, Michael Godel and Megha JandyhalaThis feature was commissioned by D.O. Rías BaixasSince the turn of the century, the salty whites of Rías Baixas have risen to the top ranks of Spanish wine.
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Apr 3, 2023 | 
winealign.com | John Kent Szabo
Explore the County with a WineAlign curated case of 12 different bottles that narrate the current and future story of PEC. ByJohn Szabo, MSThis feature was commissioned by Prince Edward County Winegrowers Association. Curated Mixed PEC CaseThis past March WineAlign partnered with the Prince Edward County Winegrowers Association to organize a comprehensive tasting of current releases of 100 percent VQA wines from the Ontario wine region.
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Apr 3, 2023 | 
winealign.com | John Kent Szabo |Michael Godel |Sara d’Amato |Megha Jandhyala
John Szabo’s Vintage’s Preview April 1: Decolonizing Wine, Reaching Critical Mass in Prince Edward County and a Tax Break for Canadian Winemakers (and Us)By John Szabo, MS, with notes from David Lawrason, Michael Godel, Sara d’Amato and Megha JandhyalaThe April 1 release, like last year’s, features the tired old theme of “Old World vs.
