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Our restaurant, private, charity, and in-home wine dinners and tastings take you on a journey and tell you wine's stories. Build your teams with an event with good wine, good food, good company! Trained wine writer, educator, & scientist . I am WSET trained to the advanced level and hold a MSc in microbiology. My company, Wine Journeys, hosts public, charity, and private wine tasting events to share the magic of wine and food. I also write about wine for a local magazine. To take your journey to great wines in a relaxed, social environment, you need to experience our wine and food events.
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Barrie, Ontario L4N 5B4, CA
Wine Journeys Thanksgiving Weekend Wine 🍷 Flat Rock Pinot Noir 2021 ★★★★ (90) Pinot Noir is one of Niagara’s strengths and this red won a Silver in the Decanter World Wine Awards. Not too shabby for Flat Rock's excellent entry level Pinot. It highlights the fruit the grape has to offer with just the right amount of spicy oak – raspberry, ripe red cherry, and beetroot with a nice cranberry finish. This wine is one of our personal favs for pairing with Thanksgiving turkey or try it with mushroom risotto. $24.95 (Vintages) #thanksgivingwine #weekendwine #turkey #wine
Wine Journeys Weekend Wine 🍷 San Felice Chianti Classico 2021 ★★★★ (90) The best vineyards in Chianti are in the Chianti Classico region and here is a nice take on a Chianti Classico with sour cherry and crushed strawberry combined with rosemary, forest floor, new leather, cedar, and woody vanilla. It’s just over medium bodied, with tannins that are still fairly high, but fine with food. Serve it with your steaks, sausage, and meat lover’s pizza. $20.95 (Vintages) #winepairing #wine #redwine #pizzawine
Wine Journeys Weekend Wine 🍷 13th Street Cabernet Merlot 2021 ★★★½ (88) This Bordeaux style Meritage from Niagara is mostly Merlot (48%) blended with Cabernet Franc (32%) and Cabernet Sauvignon (20%). Nicely dry, medium bodied, and fruity with black cherry, plum, raspberry, red currant, and a suggestion of cedary, peppery spice. It’s ready to drink now, but would reward with another 2-3 years in the cellar. Marinated and grilled skirt steak would make a very nice pairing with this red. #wine #winepairing #weekendwine $20.25 (Vintages)
Wine Journeys Weekend Wine 😍 Vineland Estates Unoaked Chardonnay 2023 ★★★½+ (89) It’s a dry, fresh, and medium bodied wine imbued with orchard fruits and pleasant lemony finish. Perfect for pairing with your finger foods like brie on crostini or spinach/artichoke dip, but will make pretty much anything you serve more enjoyable, even put away a bottle for your Thanksgiving turkey. And it’s is a nice sipper too. $15.95 (LCBO, Winery) #winetime #winepairing #weekendwine #winelovers
Wine Journeys Weekend Wine 🍾 Saintly The Good Sparkling Rosé NV ★★★½ (88) This very good Charmat Method sparkler from Ontario’s large Arterra Wines group appears to have been made at Kew Winery, which specializes in sparkling. The grapes used, however, are a closely guarded secret. From tasting, we suspect it’s a blend of Pinot Noir and/or Gamay with Chardonnay and a dollop of Riesling. The flavours are reminiscent of red berry fruits mixed with mandarin orange and grapefruit. Try it with fried foods, apps, and tomato salads. $19.95 (LCBO, Wine Rack) #winepairing #sparklingwine #winelover #weekendwine
Wine Journeys Long Weekend Wine 🍷 El Goru Gold Monastrell/Syrah/Cabernet Sauvignon 2019 ★★★★ (90) Although this robust, full bodied Spanish red has bottle age, the tannins are still quite grippy, but the fruit is splendid. Contemplate dark fruits mixed with herbs, vanilla, dark chocolate, and forest floor. Red meats, or even grilled burgers, would help tame those big tannins or decant it for 2 hours and serve it with grilled mushrooms. For my Barrie area peeps, the Big Bay Point LCBO still has stock. $19.95 (Vintages) #winepairing #spanishwine #redwine
Wine Journeys Weekend WIne 🍷 13th Street Burger Blend Gamay Noir Pinot Noir NV ★★★★ (90) This is a non-vintage red that blends wines from different years to obtain a consistent character, and it’s an excellent character indeed, not to mention great value. Medium bodied with juicy red cherry and berry flavours. Ready to drink with moderate tannins, this wine is made to pair with food. An elegant burger topped with Brie and caramelized onion or mushroom flatbread would be the perfect complement to this blend. $13.95 on sale, regular $15.95 (Winery, LCBO) #weekendwine #winepairing #winelovers #redwine