Sommelier: September 2011 Archives
Monday September 26, 2011
Wine Guy: Sipping Rum in NYC
Posted by Vanessa Vander Valk
Craig Pinhey puts wine aside this week to travel to New York city for the release party for Brugal 1888. It's an aged rum finished in sherry casks. But it's not available in New Brunswick yet, so his rum of the week is El Dorado 5 at $27.79.
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Tuesday September 20, 2011
Wine Guy: Craft Beer!
Posted by Vanessa Vander Valk
Craig Pinhey checks out craft beer culture in our region. His beer of the week is Picaroons' TimberHog Stout at three dollars and eighty cents for a 500 ml bottle.
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Monday September 12, 2011
Wine Guy: On Bubblies
Posted by Cindy Grant
There is sparkling wine and then there is Traditional Method sparkling wine, or the so-called "real" stuff. Our wine guy Craig Pinhey was in Nova Scotia recently tasting all the current traditional-method bubblies that are the talk of the town there these days.
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- October 2011
- Mon., 31 – Wine Guy: Something Dark, and a Little Scary
- Mon., 24 – Wine Guy: World Wine Expo Preview
- Mon., 17 – Wine Guy: Defending the Much Maligned Merlot
- Tue., 11 – Wine Guy: Richibucto River Estates
- Mon., 3 – Wine Guy: Port of Wines
- September 2011
- Mon., 26 – Wine Guy: Sipping Rum in NYC
- Tue., 20 – Wine Guy: Craft Beer!
- Mon., 12 – Wine Guy: On Bubblies
- Tue., 6 – Wine Guy: Pinot Noir
- August 2011
- Mon., 29 – Wine Guy: Canadian Wine Awards in NS
