This Cellar Salon took place a year ago. It was the last salon before COVID forced us to hit a hard pause—but as we crawl towards the finish line of this pandemic,…
Wine, Beer, Cider + Spirits
To be fair, this Cellar Salon happened in February, one year ago. It was the second last before COVID forced us to hit a hard pause, but as we crawl towards the…
UPDATE COVID may have cramped our socializing, but gift giving never goes out of style!
Since Ryan first walked us through his lady-named barrels back in 2018, we’ve loved FieldBird Cider. In an 8-word highlights recap: It reads like wine & drinks like Friday night.
“This place is dead”, I hear constantly. It’s the refrain from both locals and visitors who just aren’t paying attention to the awesomeness that is Prince Edward County in the deep, dark…
If you don’t live in the County, I guess it would seem that basically all of our wineries seem like they’re off the beaten path. When you live here, however, (and frequent…
I’d invited a sommelier friend to the Cellar Salon last Tuesday and mentioned that the week’s theme would be “Fireside Wines”. He texted back: Fireside Wines. You know I’m a professional, right?…
The first time I was in Prince Edward County, I was chatting to a guy behind the upstairs bar at Norman Hardie Winery. His name was Duarte and officially, he was in…
Something about the esoteric, the inaccessible, the fleeting things in life, just make our hearts beat a little faster. And when you apply those qualities to wine, we start to really lose…
After we hosted this salon at MH, but before writing this piece, I attended the very cool blind wine tasting competition, The Judgement of Kingston. In its fourth year, the competition pits…