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It’s clear from breakfast alone that Penfolds isn’t afraid to flaunt success. Visiting Penfolds’ Kalimna vineyard site in Australia’s Barossa Valley, a group of East Coast sommeliers and I were greeted by a vast quantity of mung bean pancakes, spring rolls, Coffin Bay oysters, and 60 degree eggs so large

Visiting the oldest and most prestigious wine-growing areas in Europe, it’s entirely possible to run into very old vines interplanted with different red and white varieties.  In these situations, the owner might not even have identified all the grapes in his vineyard. In the area where I live, Valpolicella, most

On June 28, 2012, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Canadians went from being lawbreakers to wine-loving, law-abiding citizens. That is because, on that day, Bill C-311, a short, one-article piece of legislation that modifies the Importation of Intoxicating Liquors Act, was enacted into law, thereby removing the prohibition