Make your first toast as a married couple award-worthy, with L’Acadie Vineyards’ sparkling wine. L’Acadie was the first in Nova Scotia— the province’s cooler climate makes it ideal growing grounds—to produce sparkling wine through the traditional method or méthode champenoise: bubbles are created in the bottle rather than injected in afterwards, like carbonated soft drinks. […]
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New Years’ bubbly drinks checklist
Moet Dom Perignon Whether you’re a rapper or just have a general predilection for ballin’, nothing says extravagance like a $200 bottle of Dom P. You can sip it reflectively or, for the ultimate fuck-you to poor people, spray it around like you’ve just won the Tour de France. Piper-Heidsieck Recession got you down? Piper-Heidsieck […]
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Pete Luckett makes wine
September saw the first release of wine from Pete’s Frootique founder Pete Luckett’s Gaspereau Valley Vineyard. The 2008 Millot was made by Jürg Stutz at Domaine de Grand Pre, outside of Wolfville, but that is just a temporary arrangement—until Luckett’s own winery is built. Luckett’s is a good example of what Nova Scotia has to […]
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Web to doorstep booze
We’re slowly, inexorably, moving towards a sensible system of buying wine, beer and spirits in Canada, where consumers can go online—or use a phone, if they are dinosaurs—and order a case from anywhere in the world to be delivered to their doorsteps. And why not? Why should booze be any different than books and music? […]