Essex County Wine Report

December Restaurant Review

2009-12-02T19:43:20Z

As a lover of good fish and chips, I was delighted when Terry suggested we go to Thomas and James in Kingsville. I just love Kingsville and just don't understand why they have the best food in the county. Well I just love it. Fish and Chips ar...

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Kinda Local

2009-11-30T02:51:59Z

Have you ever heard of this winery??? I try to stay local, but this winery is fairly local and the owners are friends of Terry's friends, so lets go. Located by Port Stanley, Quai du Vin has the distinction of not being in an appellation, not ...

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I Gotta Go Here

2009-11-16T23:11:57Z

I love soul food...working at Gratiot and McDougall for 3 years exposed me to some goooood food! This is real food and I hope this is as good as I think it may be......... from today's Windsor Star Windsor's Namaste Corner Cafe off...

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Local Primer

2009-11-16T23:03:36Z

For some odd happenstance I have had a spike in readership and all have seemed to go to the same page. Its my hope that the new readers stick around and read about some of the great things going on down here. So here is a primer for people who...

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Cottam Wine Society

2009-11-14T16:25:01Z

We recently held the inaugural meeting of the Cottam Wine Society. There is no Presidente for Life as this is an organic fun group. The meeting was held at where else...the hub of the Cottam dining world and the home of the best local wine lis...

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I was sent this and decided it needed to be posted

2009-11-14T02:27:04Z

We will remember them. In France , at a fairly large conference, Prime Minister Steven Harper was asked by a French cabinet minister if Canadian involvement in Afghanistan was just an example of "empire building". Mr Harper answered by saying...

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Cider Update

2009-11-13T01:37:50Z

Just finished racking my cider and of course tasting it. I was exceptionally careful in mixing the apple types (yeah right....it didn't quite work the way I thought it would) so the apple distribution has no effect. Champagne yeast is the gold s...

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November 11

2009-11-10T22:47:46Z

Please follow the link and see/hear this music video. Only a person from the east coast could be so right. http://www.terry-kelly.com/pittance/pittance_en.htm Our Appellations, Lake Erie North Shore and Pelee Island are the home of the Essex S...

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Syrah for All

2009-11-08T17:28:05Z

I always find it odd when local wine geeks refuse to try local wine, but are so quick to buy from any new wine region which the lickbo is promoting. True our region only has a limited number of wineries with limited to no support from lickbo or t...

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CIC More Stuff

2009-10-31T15:03:35Z

Since I see alot of my readers are not from Ontario I would like to add a little to the Cellared in Canada post. CIC wines are blends of up to 70% foreign wine and 30% local juice. The odd thing is is that the only wineries allowed to make it ...

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