On Monday the 28th of June an excited crowd assembled at Toronto’s George restaurant for a special dinner to celebrate the announcement of the winner of Ontario’s Best Sommelier competition. Good Food Revolution was there to capture the excitement and share the MC duties with Vines Magazine’s Chris Waters. GFR catches up with the four finalists for a quick video interview before the ceremony to discover how they fancied their chances…
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A few weeks ago we put Pizza Libretto/Enoteca Sociale Sommelier Lesa LaPointe through the wringer in one of our most popular articles thus far. We followed this with an interview with the Owner/Wine Geek of Parkdale’s Café Taste, Mr. Jeremy Day. This week we look into the mind of the lovely Zinta Steprans, Sommelier at Toronto restaurants L’Unita and Malena.
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Last month, whilst on a tour of Greece I had the pleasure of meeting the delightful Paterianiki sisters in Heraklion, Crete. Emanuela and Nicky’s family’s wine estate, Domaine Paterianakis, has been organically cultivating rare indigenous varietals since 1988. Emanuela and Nicky are the perfect example of the new generation that is coming to the fore of Greek winemaking.
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Isn’t Australian wine the great success story? Well… if the truth be told both Australian wine in our marketplace and the Australian wine industry as a whole are in a pretty difficult spot these days and there are myriad reasons for this. But there is light at the end of the tunnel, and it’s not a freight train carrying 2 million cases of Argentianian Malbec…
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GFR speaks with a Chef who, despite looking a little scary and bear-like in our photographs is possibly one of the most likeable, genuine, and committed blokes in the business, Mr. Scott “The Beast” Vivian. Chef Vivian’s Beast Restaurant is now open for business…
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