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These are some of the questions I am asked more frequently about wine: Are wine words baloney? In short, no. All those descriptors mean something. Heck, there are even lengthy lexicons of wine words. There are an estimated 2,000 chemical compounds in wine, of which...

Can lunar energy really make your Caberbet taste better? With concern about the environment top of mind, organic wines are no longer just a back of the shelf choice for the Birkenstocks and granola set. Today, consumers regularly seek out sustainable organic...

Spain's hot these days. The food scene has been going gangbusters ever since Ferran Adrià put El Bulli on the tip of the tongue of foodies around the globe. As for wines, sales have surged so impressively that as of 2005 Spain is the world's second largest wine...

I knew I was hooked when I found myself sitting in the brightly lit room of a private club glued to my chair. There wasn't much to see. Just the back of heads, about 100 of them, one man on a podium and around the room's periphery women on phones or in front of...

Let's begin with a short history of Tuscany. Then I'll take you to modern day and the story of the super Tuscans. The wines in the glasses in front of you are all full and flavourful reds built for the modern palate. Some are made with the traditional grape of the...

I confess to years of extolling the virtues of Austrian wines in my columns. In fact I've travelled to Austria so many times that a former Austrian Consul General once quipped that he was going to make me an honorary Austrian citizen. There's Vienna for opera,...

The mere idea of picking grapes in the dead of a Canadian winter’s night in below freezing weather may make your blood run cold. However in Canada wine aficionados reserve in advance for the privilege. Canadian icewine is so coveted and delicious people will do...

A sampling of articles from my Toronto Life columns from 2002–2003. Please click the month below to read each article. December 2002 | November 2002 | January 2003 | February 2003 | March 2003...

By Margaret Swaine 1. What are some good wine accessories worth buying? Until screwcaps become ubiquitous, the most essential is a corkscrew. There are many types, styles and price levels. The most basic is the sommelier corkscrew that looks like a pocketknife with...

Warm your palate and your summer-deprived senses with sun-drenched offerings from South America. The first time I travelled to Chile I expected a country wild with hot Latin blood where the sun beat down to the rhythm of samba. I must have been influenced by the...

By Margaret Swaine My brother Ralph's not much of a wine drinker. Actually he's not much of a drinker period. So when he opened a bottle of Bordeaux at my birthday dinner he and his wife Jane had cooked, I was impressed. Now he's a frugal sort, so we're not talking...

Ancient Greeks considered that wine was a gift from the gods and worshipped Dionysus, a creature with the mind of a man and the instincts of a beast. I did my own worshipping back in my college days when I fell in love with a modern Greek Adonis whom I met at the...

by Margaret Swaine European wines stand aside. Chile now has a growing number of super premium reds to challenge the best. And at $65 to $85 a bottle, they’re a good buy comparatively speaking. When Chile’s modern wines first reached North American shores in the...

The wine tasting at the swish Hotel Mont Cervin in Zermatt, looked at first blush, like most others I’ve attended in the world. Dozens of earnest faced winemakers carefully pouring and explaining the fruits of their considerable labour to an assembled group of wine...

It's no secret or surprise that the favourite region for many in the wine business is Tuscany. Where else is such a combo of idyllic countryside, beautiful historic buildings, art, food and wine. John Matta, owner and winemaker at the Chianti Classico estate of...

Until recently New Zealand to me meant great rack of lamb, fine wool but not quality wines. Then skiing in Whistler last year, I stayed with a friend who's condo was next to New Zealanders John and Alison Coney. Upon learning that I wrote about wine John insisted...

For several decades now, in any given month I am likely to be sampling hundreds of wines sometimes as part of glamorous multi-course dinners, other times as grueling early morning marathons of a hundred or more bottles. The setting can be as rudimentary as a bare...