It’s a sunny, late-summer Sunday morning. The sky is as clear as a glass of L’Acadie Blanc, and I’m on my way to Wolfville to hop on a double-decker bus that will cart me through Nova Scotia wine country: the Wolfville Magic Winery Bus tour. Part of the Nova Scotia Fall Wines Festival, the Ambassatours […]
Fall Wine Guide
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Tough competition
Sommelier Véronique Rivest approaches the table and asks for the judges’ order. They respond with a request for a full tasting menu, with wines for each course, but they add an odd requirement: the wines must come from different countries, all of which have to have hosted the World Sommelier competition. It’s a bizarre request […]
