This winter thirty wines received the Judge’s Award for Best Value at the 2009 InterVin International Wine Awards, an intensive three-day blind tasting competition staged in September at White Oaks Resort & Spa in Niagara-on-the-Lake. The special citation was granted to wines receiving high scores from InterVin judges that retail for less than $15. The 30 best value winners — six of which are priced under $10 per bottle — represent a dynamic array of wines from Canada, Argentina, Australia, Chile, Italy, Spain, South Africa and United States. “Given that eight out of 10 bottles of wine sold in…
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InterVin’s Top-Scoring Wines
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Mission Hill - Five Vineyards
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If ever you find yourself in the Okanagan Valley, consider your experience incomplete without a visit to Mission Hill. Architecturally magnificent, it overlooks Lake Okanagan’s majestic landscape. Their terrace restaurant offers panoramic views, while an oculus peers 20 meters below to a wine cellar, blasted out of volcanic rock, that also contains vaults of anitiquities like wine vessels from 350 BC to 2500 BC. "We measure time in vintages", asserts Ingo Grady, Director of Sales for Mission Hill Family Estate. Recently Mission Hill has released a new tier of wine that blends 2007 vintage reserve grapes of…
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Donald Ziraldo - Riesling Icewine
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“Canada and Icewine are Synonymous” - Donald Ziraldo. One cannot imagine Canadian Icewine without Donald Ziraldo. He raised the industry from its infancy to its current standard of excellence for which Canada is so proud. Founder and former president of Inniskillin Wines, he has held numerous directorships and chairs including the Founding Chair of the Vintners’ Quality Alliance 1988-1995, and is current Chair of the Vineland Research & Innovation Centre Board. Ziraldo consults on an advisory basis for various disciplines within the wine sector, and is the author of Icewine; Extreme Winemaking (2007, in book…
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