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SUMMER 2015 GRAPEVINE MAGAZINE MAGAZINE GRAPEVINE Parkwood Estate BringsBrings LifeLife toto HistoryHistory brochettesbrochettesLamb and Swordfish SUMMER 2015 SUMMER Wines of the MinervoisMinervois grapevinemagazine.c WINEWINE 101101:: A Beginner’s Guide a COMPLIMENTARY www.grapevinemagazine.ca @GrapevineMag PUBLISHER Mike Strom EDITOR & DESIGN Melissa Gaboury VICE PRESIDENT SALES Tracey Keary facebook.com/grapevinemag DISTRIBUTION Jeff Keary PHOTOGRAPHY Andrew Beaucaire-Cameron Ryan Szulc Grapevine magazine is published quarterly by Grapevine Publications Inc. Fabrice Cambray Opinions expressed are those of the writer(s) and do not reflect Barry Fawcett the opinions of Grapevine magazine, its editor or the publisher. Eunice Gibb No part of this publication may be reproduced without prior Michael Gauthier written consent from the publisher. Hans Tak Copyright 2014 Grapevine Publications Inc. Norman Markland ILLUSTRATION Gray Abraham ADVERTISING: Phone: 613.480.5368 GRAPHIC DESIGN Troy Hyndman Email: [email protected] Grapevine Magazine | Summer 2015 1 contents contributors SUMMER 2015 features departments Tony Aspler has been writing about wine Celebrity chef Anna Olson is host of Bake for over 30 years. He was the wine with Anna Olson, which airs on Food Agnes Etherington Gallery 6 Outdoor Pursuits 10 columnist for the Toronto Star for 21 years Network in Canada and follows on the and has authored 14 books on wine and heels of her successful series Sugar and Wines of the Minervois 14 Anna's Kitchen 13 food, including The Wine Atlas of Canada, Fresh with Anna Olson, which has aired in Vintage Canada, The Wine Lover Cooks Music & Beyond Festival 28 The French Connection 18 40 countries worldwide. She has authored and Travels With My Corkscrew. One of seven bestselling cookbooks, including her 4 6 Parkwood Estate 44 Favourite Things 33 Tony’s latest books is The Definitive most recent book, Back to Baking. Canadian Wine & Cheese Cookbook (with Port Hope Jazz Festival 48 Ryan's Eye: Decorating 36 chef Gurth Pretty). with Wallpaper food & drink Great Reads 42 When Deborah Melman-Clement isn’t eating Michael Pinkus started food and drinking wine, she’s usually OntarioWineReview.com (now Wine 101: A Beginner's Guide 4 The Last Bite 56 writing about them. An award-winning MichaelPinkusWineReview.com) in March Lamb & Swordfish Brochettes 32 journalist, editor, copywriter and broadcaster 2005; a website devoted to the love, enjoyment and promotion of Ontario Recipe based in Kingston, ON, Deborah writes for the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and for Wines. Today, he tastes wines from all over Wine & Music Pairings 40 clients across Canada and the U.S. the world, is president of the Wine Writers Circle of Canada and has won a few awards 10 44 for his writing along the way. 24 Fashion/Jewellery/Gifts KitchenCraft Cabinetry 21 Cornerstone Art & Craft 8 The County Fireplace Co. 24 Dragonfly 7 Zest Kitchen 31 Will Ryan is a graduate of the Ontario The former literacy co-ordinator for the Strutt Fashion Boutique 48 College of Art & Design with 45 years of Toronto District School Board, Anne ad listing The Blue House 38 Legal Jules Custom Framing 38 Baldwin Law 9 experience in interior design in both Preston is now retired and living contently residential and commercial. He was part in The County. She is currently the chair of Accommodation/Dining Soirée 33 Real Estate owner of the iconic Toronto store Anything the Written Word Committee of the Prince Williams Hotels IF Financial Chestnut Park 55 Goes on Avenue Road. He has lived in Edward County Arts Council and employed Art/Art Galleries Ashley Barratt Accounting 46 Chestnut Park - Dee McGee/Gail Forcht 53 Canton, ON, since 1998 and his current at Books & Company in Picton, ON. You Engine Gallery 48 Eric Reynolds Chartered Accountant 8 Chestnut Park - Fionna Barrington 54 PEC Studio Tour 38 Scotia McLeod 47 Royal LePage - Elizabeth Crombie 53 project is the renovation of the Walton Hotel can find her at the bookstore most Sundays Rednersville Road Art Tour 9 Fine Foods/Catering Royal Lepage - Lee Caswell 53 in Port Hope. happily shelving books. SideStreet Gallery 37 Miss Lily's Café 1 Remax 54 Upper Canada Art Consulting 8 Harden & Huyse 39 Remax - Peter Stewart 54 John M. Parrott Art Gallery 35 Kingston Olive Oil Co. 24 Summer Village Cottages 43 Quinte Arts Council 34 Maison Depoivre 29 Travel/Tourism Gallery One Twenty One 34 Sans Souci 20 Kingston.ca IB The Robert McLaughlin Gallery 17 World's Finest Chocolate 19 Sandbanks Tours 25 Westben 16 Hy-Tea 33 Parkwood National Historic Site 17 FROM THE EDITOR Open Studio Art Café 33 Books BDIA 35 L'Auberge de France 35 Books & Company 1 Municipality of Durham 17 and lamb brochettes a shot, washed down Where to Stay & Eat 47 hello summer! Check out Great Reads to find out what Furby House Books 7 Municipality of Clarington 17 with some County wines. Culture vultures should be on your reading list this summer. Scugog Shores Museum Garden/Landscaping 17 As the new editor of Grapevine should take a drive to Parkwood Estates If you’re new to the world of wine, our Culture & Entertainment A&B Precast 11 The Belleville Club 34 Magazine, I want to say “hello” to our in Oshawa, to enjoy its splendid art deco Wine Beginner’s 101 is full of insightful ClearWater Design 11 Wentworth Landscaping 20 Hosking Motorsports 12 Vehicle Sales/Service existing readers and to welcome new interior and wonderful gardens, or a visit to advice. Where ever you travel this summer, Red Ball Radio 41 Health & Wellness Competition Motors 9 readers from Durham and Ottawa. It is my the Agnes Etherington Gallery in Kingston, take a Grapevine Magazine with you and Body Shop Training Co. 12 Warkworth Golf Club 43 privilege to announce a further increase in whose summer show offers no less than five enjoy the sunshine! Paul Lafrance Design 33 Home Furnishings/Décor Wine Casa Dea 13 our print run, this time to 30,000 copies. exhibitions. Having feasted your eyes, let James Reid Fine Furnishings 16 Education Closson Chase 27 After a long hard winter and a slow start your ears enjoy the Port Hope Jazz Festival Happy reading! Metaphor Home 45 Albert College 21 Devil's Wishbone 41 to spring many of us will be desperate for this September, but do read our article on Loyalist College 39 Home Improvement Huff Estates 29 a taste of outdoor activities and getting Wine and Music Pairings before you go. Melissa Northumberland Montessori School 19 Kingsmill Kitchens 23 Norman Hardie Back the BBQ back into action. Give swordfish Planning a relaxing time at the cottage? 2 Grapevine Magazine | Summer 2015 Grapevine Magazine | Summer 2015 3 WINE 101: " A Beginner’s Guide To by Tony Aspler understand here are no standards of taste tasting. You can tell 90% about a wine by off-odours you can begin to praise its virtues. in wine, cigars, poetry, prose, smelling it. The only thing you can’t tell is Take a small amount in your mouth and wine you etc. Each man’s own taste is how long the flavour will last in the mouth. let it cover your palate because you taste ‘ the standard, and a majority Your palate, by comparison, is a blunt different aspects of the wine on different have to vote cannot decide for him or instrument; it only records five basic tastesparts of your tongue. You experience in Tany lightest degree affect the supremacy – sweet, sour, bitter, salt and fifth taste calledsweetness on the tip of the tongue, salt on of his own standard.’ umani, a Japanese term for a salty-sweet the sides of the tongue, sourness (acid) and taste it. These are the words of Mark Twain, taste like soy. bitterness (tannin) at the back of the mouth written in 1895, when it seemed women To show you how powerful your nose is, and on the gums. didn’t drink wine or smoked cigars – but the you need only 400 molecules of a substance Because the sweet sensors are on the tip " essence of his thought holds true today. Even to smell it but you need 25,000 molecules of your tongue your immediate impression for the neophyte raising his or her first glass dissolved in your saliva to taste it. So, if we of the wine will be the sweetness of the of wine the personal palate reigns supreme. only register five tastes on our tongues, how fruit but as it works its way to the back of What you like is what you like. But this do we tell the difference between lobsters the palate you will experience the freshness doesn’t mean there are not some objective and, say, strawberries? of the acidity and – in young red wines - a standards by which wine can be judged. The taste buds on our tongues transmit coarseness from the tannins. (Tannin is a To understand wine you have to taste it. those five basic tastes up our nasal passagenatural bitter compound in the pits, stalks That might sound axiomatic but there is a to tiny hairs at the top of our nose which and skins of grapes and acts as a preservative. technique to tasting that will enhance the decode them into all the flavours we know. Red wines have more tannins than whites sensory pleasure that a fine wine affords. If your nose is blocked or if you have a cold, because they are made by macerating the Most people want to get the wine in you won’t taste properly. (Try this yourself. skins of black grapes with the fermenting their mouth as soon as possible but there Pinch both nostrils closed and take a sip of juice to extract colour.) is much you can tell by the sight and smell wine, swallow and hold your nose for five A great wine will be harmonious in that before the wine even enters the mouth.