You don’t have to sacrifice taste for price if you know where to look. Sommelier Erin Horton of Bishop’s Cellar pulls five affordable and tasty wines for every budget. The good news is cheaper wines usually mean easy drinking and no “pencil-shaving aromas.” The bad news is you have every excuse to double fist bottles […]
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Just try me: local wines to drink this fall
Domaine de Grand Pré, Haskap Sparking Wine $23.75 Haskap, a berry native to our province, gives this wine just a hint of body and sweetness. Made in the traditional Champagne method, this is a wine versatile enough to span whatever fall feast you have up your sleeve. “This wine is about as Nova Scotian as […]
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Best Liquor / Wine Store
Gold Winner Bishop’s Cellar Silver Winner Premier Wine & Spirits Bronze Winner Port of Wines Once upon a time, specialty wine shops were seen as snobby, a domain where only the initiated were allowed. It’s places like Bishop’s Cellar, where staff are patient and enthusiastic to help even the most unschooled wine drinker, that have […]
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Best Liquor / Wine Store
Gold Winner Bishop’s Cellar Silver Winner Port of Wines Bronze Winner Premier Wine and Spirits A great selection and stellar staff including three sommeliers set Bishop’s Cellar apart from your run-of-the-mill liquor stores. Don’t mistake this for elitism. Although the cellar is a bit of a connoisseur’s playground—often sourcing from smaller vineyards—retail manager Alanna McIntyre […]
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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 […]