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The B & W Herald Archive
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2007 Penley Estate
Over the Moon Rose
LCBO#: 684316 @ $17.95
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Bulldog London Dry Gin
LCBO#: 71605 @ $42.45
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Enjoy the summer while it lasts!
Available Now
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NOW IN GENERAL RELEASE AT THE LCBO
95 POINTS WINE ENTHUSIAST!
A brazen breed of gin. Infused with Dragon Eye, Natural Poppy and Lotus Leaves |
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With 15 B & W wines in the September Edition of the Vintages Classics Collection Catalogue, now is a perfect time for a walkthrough of how it works.
Released four times a year by the LCBO's Vintages division in May, August, October and February, the Classics Collection Catalogue offers a selection of some of the finest wines and spirits available in the world. The Catalogue focuses on the latest limited allocations from some of the most sought-after small estates and producers in the world, as well as acclaimed older Vintages and other rare selections.
Each Classics Collection Catalogue includes 150-250 new and unique products that are available for ordering directly from the catalogue, and delivered by the LCBO. Due to the limited allocations of each wine in the Catalogue, the LCBO processes orders in random order following the order deadline.
The September Classics Cataolgue is scheduled for release to mail subscribers on August 19th, 2008. The catalouge will also be avalable in select Vintages stores, as well as the Vintages website after August 19th. The deadline for submitting an order to the LCBO is September 10th, 2008. Orders can be submitted to the LCBO by email, or fax after the catalogue release date, up until the order deadline.
Below is a list of our wines that will be available in the September Classics Catalogue. You can view further information about any of these wines by clicking the name.
- 2004 Glaymond "Distinction" Shiraz (LCBO#: 64915 | $126.00 ) 94 Points, Wine Advocate
- 2004 Glaymond "Landrace" Shiraz Mataro (LCBO#: 658492 | $46.00 )
- 2005 Grosset Gaia (LCBO#: 73064 | $46.00 ) 95 Points, James Halliday's 2008 Wine Companion
- 2005 Clarendon Hills Blewitt Springs Grenache (LCBO#: 15669 | $68.45 ) 91 Points, Wine Advocate
- 2005 Clarendon Hills Liandra Syrah (LCBO#: 702332 | $88.00 ) 93 Points, Wine Spectator Magazine
- 2005 Clarendon Hills Astralis Syrah (LCBO#: 64378 | $423.00 ) 99 Points, Wine Advocate
- 2005 Clarendon Hills Onkapringa Grenache (LCBO#: 64139 | $106.00 ) 95 Points, Wine Advocate
- 2005 Clarendon Hills Onkapringa Syrah (LCBO#: 64154 | $106.00 ) 95 Points, Wine Advocate
- 2005 Clarendon Hills Brookman Syrah (LCBO#: 792209 | $93.00 ) 96 Points, Wine Advocate
- 2005 Clarendon Hills Romas Grenache (LCBO#: 963686 | $84.00 ) 95 Points, Wine Advocate
- 2003 Clarendon Hills Moritz Syrah (LCBO#: 64519 | $77.00 ) 95 Points, Wine Advocate
- 2005 Two Hands Ares Shiraz (LCBO#: 64716 | $142.00 ) 98 Points, Wine Spectator Magazine
- 2006 Two Hands Bella's Garden Shiraz (LCBO#: 636407 | $65.00 ) 93 Points, Wine Advocate
- 2006 Two Hands Sophie's Garden Shiraz (LCBO#: 62380 | $66.00 ) 92 Points, International Wine Cellar
- 2006 Two Hands Lily's Garden Shiraz (LCBO#: 683086 | $66.00 ) 93 Points, Wine Spectator Magazine
How to Order
By Fax: You can fax in your Classics Catalogue order to the Vintages Sales Centre between August 19th and September 10th. Click here to download the PDF order form, and send your completed form by fax to 416 365-5777 or toll-free 1 800 282-2197. Please make sure to include credit card info, and sign the order form.
By Email: You can also email your Classics Catalogue order to the Vintages Sales Centre between August 19th and September 10th. Click here to download the Excel order form, and email it to: vintagesorders@lcbo.com. You will be contacted by a Vintages Sales Representative to confirm your payment info.
As always, you can contact me at jarrod@bwwines.com, and I would be happy to assist you in processing your Classics order or answering any of your questions. |
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2004 Murray Street Cabernets ~ Barossa Valley/Adelaide Hills, Australia
Consignment | 12 Bottle Case | Approx Bottle Price: $24.95 | 28 Cases Available
Score: 88 Points, Wine Spectator Magazine
"A Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc blend that aims for finesse and achieves a supple texture, with smoky currant and plum flavours. Picks up a dusky note as the finish lingers. Best from 2007 through 2012."
2007 Critics Challenge International Wine Competition Critics SILVER |
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2007 Grosset Polish Hill Riesling ~ Clare Valley, Australia
Vintages | LCBO#: 72900 | Bottle Price: $43.95 | August 2nd Release
Oz Clarke
Decanter (UK) ‘Out with the Old (Top five New World Wines to lay down)’ July 2008
"Not just a classic Australian Riesling, but a classic Riesling by any measure. Scented and citrus now and sure to age for a generation." |
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2005 Glaymond Gerhard Grenache ~ Barossa Valley, Australia
Vintages | LCBO #:63867 | Approx Bottle Price: $47.95 | September 13th Release
Score: 93 Points, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
"The 2005 Grenache “Gerhard” is sourced from 46- to 50-year-old vines and was aged for 19 months in French oak, 25% new. It delivers scents of garrigue, sage, leather, lavender, black cherry, and black raspberry. Full-bodied, sweet and layered on the palate, the wine has tons of savory fruit, a smooth texture, excellent depth and length, and a long, pure finish. It has enough stuffing to develop for 4-6 years in the cellar, but can be enjoyed now. Congratulation to young Mr. Tscharke for an impressive collection of wines!
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2005 Giaconda Warner Shiraz ~ Barossa Valley, Australia
Consignment | 6 Bottle Case | Approx Bottle Price: $ | September 1st Release (Approx.)
Score: 91 Points, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
"The 2005 Shiraz “Warner Vineyard” spent 22 months in French oak, 60% new. Opaque purple-colored, it reveals an enticing perfume of pain grille, pepper, Asian spices, smoked meat, bacon, and blueberry. On the palate it is firm and slightly lean with good flavors and a long, pure finish. Drink it over the next 8-10 years. Giaconda, founded by Rick Kinzbrunner, released its first wines in 1987. The winery and vineyards are located in Beechworth in northeastern Victoria." |
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2004 Rockford Basket Press Shiraz ~ Barossa Valley, Australia
Consignment | 12 Bottle Case | Approx Bottle Price: $ | September 1st Release (Approx.)
Score: 91 Points, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
"Made from 60- to 140-year-old vines by winemaker Chris Ringland and the Barossa icon wine producer Robert O’Callaghan, Rockford’s 2003 Shiraz Basket Press exhibits a beautiful minerality, a lovely floral note to its blackberry and cassis fruit, and hints of pepper, old oak, and garrigue. This complex, full-bodied effort possesses power, richness, and, much like its proprietor, considerable personality. Drink it over the next 15+ years." |
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2006 Finca Sophenia Malbec
LCBO#: 66837 @ $16.95
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New Website Update!
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A wine of great concentration and complexity showing sweet and voluminous tannins
Available at Vintages
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Check out the latest enhancements to our website at www.bwwines.com
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With Argentinean wines the highlight of the July 5th Vintages release, including four wines from the B & W portfolio, now is the perfect time to talk about Argentina.
Once considered the “sleeping giant” of the wine industry, Argentina has for a long time been the fifth largest wine producing country in the world exporting a proportionately small amount of wine to the North American market. Over the last decade, there has been a gradual shift in focus towards quality.
With the introduction of modern wine making techniques, including the investment in temperature controlled steel tanks and new-oak barrels, the Argentinean wine industry has reinvented itself, creating a new pedigree of higher quality Argentinean wines that resulted in an almost immediate jump in North American wine sales.
At the centre of this rapid growth is Argentina’s largest and most important wine region Mendoza. Located directly east of Buenos Aires, Mendoza represents over 70 % of the total production of wine in Argentina with over 360,000 acres of grapes planted - considerably larger in size to Bordeaux.
The most popular grape from this region, Malbec, is a varietal from Bordeaux that has found its form in the rich soils and high altitudes of Argentina. Known for its velvety tannins, fruit forward taste profile, and its capacity for great depth and varietal variation, Malbec has become Argentina’s leading grape. The recent meteoric rise in popularity of Malbec is often paralleled to the success of Australia’s Shiraz. This has been due to the accessibility of Malbec wines and to their often excellent value. Argentina has also had success over the last few years with other popular varietals such as Cabernet Sauvignon, and to a lesser degree Merlot and Syrah.
For an introduction to the wines of Argentina, Bodegas Weinert, voted Winery of the Year in 2007 by Wine & Spirits, and in the words of Robert Parker, the maker of “South America’s greatest red wines - the qualitative equals of the finest reds in the world!” is an excellent place to start. Founded in 1975 by Don Bernardo C. Weinert, Bodega y Cavas de Weinert is located in Lujan de Cuyo, Argentina´s craddle for top quality wines.
The 2000 Bodega Weinert Cavas de Weinert (Available in Vintages | LCBO#: 61226 | $23.95 /btl) is Bodega Weinert's flagship wine. Under its deep ruby tone is an enormously complex wine with mesmerizing sweet, voluptuous blackberry fruit flavours permeated by vanilla, cigar box, and saddle leather aromas.
Also available, the 2003 Bodega Weinert Malbec (Available in Consignment | 12 bottle case | $18.95 /btl) 92 Points, Wine & Spirits is one of Argentina's top Malbecs: traditional with a claret-like structure not often achieved in the New World. Deep colour with a hint of liquorice and big, jammy, peppery fruit. Great length, full-bored and generous.
Another highly regarded winery from Mendoza, Finca Sophenia is owned and operated by Roberto Luka, formerly President of Wines of Argentina. The prestigious Winemaker Michel Rolland, who is internationally recognized, collaborates as consultant of Finca Sophenia since the first vinification took place. The estate’s vineyard is located in the Tupungato district at an elevation of 4000 feet.
The 2005 Sophenia Synthesis Malbec (Available in Vintages | LCBO#: 63339 | $33.95 /btl) is part of Finca Sophenia's premium "Synthesis label". 90 Points, Robert Parker: "The 2005 Synthesis Malbec spent 12 month in new French oak. Purple coloured, it has an excellent bouquet of cedar, wood smoke, violets, black cherry and blackberry. This is followed by a medium to full-bodied wine made elegant style. Smooth-textured, ripe, and silky, it offers generous spicy flavours nicely concealing enough tannin to carry the wine for several years of further evolution. It should drink well through 2015."
The 2006 Finca Sophenia Malbec (Available in Vintages | LCBO#: 66837 | $16.95 /btl)is an excellent value wine from the Finca Sophenia label. The wine has intense deep red colour with violet hues. Complex aromas of plums and ripe cherries and violets. It is enhanced by the presence of dry fruits and mint hints. A wine of great concentration and complexity showing sweet and voluminous tannins.
The 2006 Finca Sophenia Merlot (Available in Vintages | LCBO#: 63412 | $17.95) has intense red colour. Great elegant aromas of ripe red fruits combined with herbs and mineral hints. It is a voluminous wine of wide sweet tannins. Vanilla and toast flavours appear in the aftertaste, conferring greater elegance.
By the case you can also buy the 2006 Finca Sophenia Cabernet Sauvignon (Available in Consignment | 12 bottle case | $23.00 /btl). It's an excellent example of the great things that Argentina has done with this varietal. Deep red colour. Intense aromas of red and black fruits, spicy and mineral hints melt with smoke and vanilla scents. A wine with complexity, structure and great elegance.
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2004 Lipscomb & Tobella Mosaic Priorat Red ~ Priorat, Spain
Consignment | 12 btl case | Bottle Price: $43.50 - 8 Cases Available
Score: 92 Points "The 2004 Mosaic is a blend of 60% Carinena, 30% Garnacha, and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon aged for 14 months in 100% new French oak. It was bottled without fining or filtration. Opaque purple coloured, the wine’s bouquet roars from the glass with aromas of slate, scorched earth, espresso, blueberry, and black cherry. This is followed by a rich, plush, layered wine which nicely conceals enough tannin to support 1-2 years of further cellaring. With outstanding depth, length, and elegance, this is a wine to enjoy over the next 6-8 years. It is an excellent value for a Priorat of this quality." Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
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2006 Testarossa Palazzio
Pinot Noir
750 ml: LCBO#: 662783 @ $46.95
375 ml: LCBO#: 57463 @ $26.95
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Summerhill LCBO Tasting
Saturday, June 14th, 2008
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A flashy, full-throttle Pinot that displays sweet red berry-fruit and plenty of oak, leading to a long finish.
Available at Vintages
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10 SCRIVENER SQUARE
11:30am - 3:30pm
Join us in sampling Antigua Distillery Five Year English Harbour Rum
LCBO#: 58792 @ $29.95 /btl
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Visit Darioush Website
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Recently we sampled the outstanding new vintage of Darioush Wines on a visit from our supplier and all we can say is "wow". Hearing the remarkable account of how this Napa Valley Winery was born only added to its appeal.
Darioush Khaledi, who was raised in the Iranian Region of Shiraz, first developed his passion for wine as a 6-year old boy, sneaking sips from the barrel in his father’s wine cellar, by wringing a wine-soaked towel into his mouth.
Today, that childhood memory is enshrined by a waterfall at the centre of Darioush’s lavish 22,000 square foot winery and visitor centre on the Silverado trail of eastern Napa Valley. Modelled after the Persian city of Persepolis, and built using travertine stones imported from Iran that were cut and polished in Italy, Darioush Khaledi has built the ultimate monument both to his love of wine and to his Persian heritage.
Since immigrating to the United States in 1976, Khaledi developed as successful business opening a chain of supermarkets across California. During that time his passion for Bordeaux wine was shaped into the dream of opening a winery.
In the early 1990’s he began his search for the quintessential winery property, culminating in the purchase of the vacated Altamura Winery site in 1997. Since that time, the 39 acres vineyard site has expanded to over 90 acres that include Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz, Merlot, Malbec, Petit Verdot, Chardonnay and Viognier.
With the leadership of Darioush winemaker Steve Devitt, Khaledi has employed an old-world style of wine making, allowing the full expression of the grapes on the vines with minimal intervention. The result are wines that blend the elegance of Bordeaux with a rich California ripeness.
The first vintage of the Darioush Signature Cabernet Sauvignon – their flagship wine, earned Darioush a score of 92 in Wine Spectator, and their Chardonnay has consistently earned Wine Spectator scores over 90.
If you would like to experience the wines, here is summary of current availability:
- 2005 Signature Series Cabernet Sauvignon (6 bottle case | $99.95 /btl). Score: 93 Points "Once again, Darioush races to the top of the listings with a big, rich, hedonistically overachieving Cabernet, but unlike last year’s 3 star winner, this one is somewhat tighter and age-demanding than its predecessor. It is in the nature of the 2005 vintage that it seems to produce somewhat less lush, plush wines, and there are those who will applaud and those who will miss the genuine juiciness of Darioush’s 2004. Because this wine seems to have a foot in two camps, we see more to like in the 2004, but there is no reason not to like this one as well." Connoisseurs' Guide to California Wine
- 2005 Signature Series Cabernet Franc (6 bottle case | $ 75.00 /btl). As a classic Bordeaux varietal, Cabernet Franc imparts such intensity of fruit and dark earthy components when blended into our Signature Cabernet Sauvignon. On its own, it possesses power with great poise. Introduced by vibrant aromas of blackberry, cherry and bittersweet chocolate, the 2005 vintage is focused and intense. A saturated palate showcases flavours of loganberry and kirsch liqueur, while firm tannins suggest oolong tea, cedar and tobacco.
- 2005 Signature Series Shiraz (6 bottle case | approx $ 90.00 /btl ). Crafted to balance the fruit complexity, structure and age-worthiness of this ancient varietal, the 2005 Signature Shiraz accomplishes this feat. Grown on vines cloned from 50% old-vine Australian Shiraz and 50% Northern Rhone Syrah, the finished wine stays true to its inherently spicy and seductive spirit. Introduced by alluring fragrances of dried orange peel, rose hips and white pepper, the 2005 Signature Shiraz is plush, yet focused. Layered flavours of spicy licorice, ripe blackberry and bittersweet chocolate support a balanced and delineated mouth feel. Subdued oak and well-integrated tannins are revealed on a finish, accented by hints of vanilla bean, cedar and star anise.
- 2005 Estate Caravan Cabernet Sauvignon (12 bottle case | $47.95 /btl). Juicy flavours of ripe berries, cherries and plum mingle with hints of cola, chocolate and coffee. Abundant Petit Verdot lends a violet floral note while Malbec adds a juicy blueberry finish. This Cabernet is youthful but approachable with a soft palate and lingering finish.
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