Author: james romanow

Flying Wines

I’ve been flying a fair bit this year. During this ‘The Best Recession Ever!’ the first thing that got hammered was the food and wine in biz class. Curiously, the cheap seats wine on Air Canada kept quite decent French reds and whites. Commuter lines have gone to cheap bulk like Barefoot (and for the… Continue reading Flying Wines

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Ham, glorious ham!

A few years ago, a friend of mine (Hi Freddy!) who represented sherries at the time, told me he had taken to coming home from work, sitting on the deck and having a bottle of sherry in an ice bucket, some olives and some cold sausage, and watching the sun go down. It sounded good… Continue reading Ham, glorious ham!

Christmas piggery

Well it was probably a good thing I mortified my spirit by marathon tasting of cheap wine before the holiday. Yesterday (Xmas) we went through a couple of bottles of Cattier Blanc de blanc, a decent IGT, and a bottle of inexpensive but interesting Torrontes bubbly from Argentina.

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The Hard Life of the Wine Writer

This is just a part of the kind of marathon tasting you have to do occasionally. Unfortunately this is for my January ’10 Buck Challenge’ column so all the wine is quite inexpensive. The good news is, this category is improving every year in quality. You need fear no longer the wedding banquet! The bad… Continue reading The Hard Life of the Wine Writer

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