Terroir Wine Workshops
Wine Workshops Registration on site day of Symposium Just a little heads-up regarding the four...
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Tag: Hillebrand
The Longest Table
At the tail end of one of those wonderful Ontario lazy, hazy Saturday afternoons, a crowd of...
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Hillebrand Showcase
Ever since Craig McDonald joined Peller/Trius/Hillebrand/Thirty Bench as Head Winemaker we have...
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Wild Ferment SB
Just the other week Good Food Revolution took a little field trip down to Niagara-On-The-Lake to...
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Jamie Drummond on Food and Wine #95 Craig McDonald (Hillebrand)
This week GFR take a trip out to Niagara to visit one of our favourite Winemakers, the fabulous Craig McDonald of Hillebrand. Craig tells us about his journey to Canada from Australia, his first experiences of Canadian wine, and where he feels Niagara’s strengths lie when it comes to wines.
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LCBO goLOCAL
On September 10, the LCBO is launching their goLOCAL Collection. For an entire month, the LCBO is providing their customers with the opportunity to discover their favourite Ontario wine. I recently spent a day in Niagara, touring some of the participating wineries, tasting some great wines and learning about the push to get LCBO customers to “goLocal”.
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Jazz and Blues at Hillebrand Winery, Saturday the 9th
Hillebrand Jazz at the Winery has been bringing premier Canadian Jazz talent to Niagara Wine Country for 22 years. Celebrate Hillebrand Jazz at the Winery with fine wines, great local cuisine and spectacular music on Saturday, July 9, 2011.
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Wine Of The Week: Royal Winter Fair Award Winners Part 1 – Trius Sauvignon Blanc
It really was good to see this wine win top honours at this year’s Royal Agricultural Winter Fair Wine Competition. It’s the first year that Hillebrand have bottled Sauvignon Blanc under their Trius label and I have no doubt that this wine’s success in blind evaluation has everything to do with the winemaking genius (and amazing storyteller) that is Darryl Brooker. Darryl is now Winemaker at Okanagan’s Cedar Creek winery, but this wine stands as a legacy to his talents… but not for long, as it is ALMOST all gone!!! Grab it while you can.
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Gold Medal Plates Toronto – A Whirlwind Document of the Evening’s Proceedings
An attempt to capture the excitement, the tension, and the culinary marvels at Gold Medal Plates Toronto 2010
Man, it was noisy in there!
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Chef Frank Dodd’s Niagara Table
Last week Arlene Stein and I headed out on the Queen Elizabeth Way, out of tepid Toronto and down to Arcadian Niagara to visit Hillebrand Winery and see what Chef Frank Dodd was up to at their Winery Restaurant. Invited and led around by Liz Hendriksen, Arlene learns about the winery’s innovative approach to hospitality and Chef Dodd’s unwavering commitment to local ingredients before and after a four course ‘Harvest Table’ lunch in this video.
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How I Have Been Working Hard For You – A Food Writer’s Diary
The food writer’s life is punctuated by some very pleasant episodes. More often than not, invitations to these episodes come from publicists and PR professionals, wishing to drum up some press for their restaurateur clients. We craven, ink-stained wretches are often more than happy to accept these invitations, as our schedules allow, on the dual grounds that: a) there may be a story in it, and b) it sounds like fun.
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