One individual wine would be hard to pinpoint, but I like Ontario wine. I collect a lot of Ontario wines and Italian reds. I guess that’s about as narrow as I could get it. If I had to say one wine, I would say a Gabbiano Chianti, simply because that’s a place where I’ve visited and stayed there and we have a few bottles and we drink them regularly.
Yeah, I think rieslings, chardonnays and pinot noirs.
The Gabbiano experience, I guess. I just got there with my wife and some friends — it was just the four of us — and we stayed at the castle, which is where the winery is, and had a bottle of Prosecco and their Chianti Classico overlooking the Tuscan hills outside one night. That was kind of a special night. And I got out to the Olympics last year, in Vancouver, and was at a party hosted by the Aquilini family, who own the Canucks, and they were serving some very special wines. One of them was a [Wine Spectator] wine of the year — a brunello — Casanova di Neri 2001 — which was quite spectacular.
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Claire Biddiscombe is the Editorial Assistant with Wine Access magazine and Managing Editor on the Canadian Wine Annual. Her work has appeared in print and on community radio stations across the country. She is the magazine’s resident science nut.
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