Tag: france
Moderate Alc. is the New Black
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I had a William Fevre Chablis Les Champs Royaux 2008 the other night that blew away the rudely imbalanced Rodney Strong Charlotte’s Home Sauvignon Blanc 2009 I had the same day with lunch. Yet they both sell for around $20 in the US and Canada. Reminder that it’s not a level playing field out there.
I [...]
Posted: July 12th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
Tags: alcohol, book, canada, carolyn evans hammond, food and wine, france, good better best wines, high alcohol wine, inniskillin, Italy, jackson-triggs, Red wine, relax, riesling, ruffino, sauvignon blanc, white wine, wine
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CHILLABLE REDS
By Carolyn Evans Hammond, May 11, 2010.
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By Carolyn Evans Hammond, published in Outreach Connection, at besteveryou.com, and distributed privately on 14/05/10
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It’s about as horrible a drink as you can imagine and yet, because convention says so, people keep on serving soupy-warm red wine. Room temperature, the argument goes. That’s how you serve the red. Who [...]
Posted: May 11th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
Tags: beaujolais, chillable reds, france, Italy, jadot, lambrusco, Mondavi, Pinot Noir
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It’s Not Flip-Flop Weather
By Carolyn Evans Hammond, Friday March 19, 2010
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Torontonians are a funny bunch. It’s March. The mercury rises about 10 degrees, it gets a little sunny, and suddenly people are baring all. Girls start hitting Starbucks in jeans and flip-flops with pretty pink pedicured toes, or schlumping around in ankle Uggs and teensy-weensy shorts. Boys start [...]
Posted: March 19th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
Tags: Angel's Gate, beaujolais, burgundy, canada, Canadian wine, Chardonnay, france, Italy, Niagara, peach, riesling, spring, wine
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THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL ANTI-AGING POTION
 Carolyn Evans Hammond March 13, 2010
So does this happen to you? Every time you go for a facial, does the aesthetician try to sell you hundreds of dollars worth of skin care products?  It happens to me without fail. There I lie, damp cotton circles on my eyes, soft music playing, the face steamer puffing [...]
Posted: March 14th, 2010 under Uncategorized.
Tags: anti-aging, bo, book, carolyn evans hammond, france, good better best wines, new zealand, pouilly-fume, sancerre, wine
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