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A Vintage Assessments Recommended Best Buy

Alta-Yarí Gran Torrontés 2021
Dry, Gently Spicy, Complex *** (93 points)
Our #1 Vintages White Wine Buy #31667 - $27.95
It's not everyday that you see Argentine Torrontes selling for $27.95. One taste and I knew why. Of the 112 Vintages Torrontes releases Ihave reviewed over the past 23 years, it's the best yet. Bright pale straw colour, this has an attractive, slightly spicy, fairly complex, ripe, yellow-grapefruit nose with lots of minerality along with some citrusy notes. Dry, medium bodied, nicely structured and quite mouthfilling, the intense, ripe, Asian pear flavours are followed up by a lingering, elegantly spicy, faintly grassy, bright, citrusy finish. A sensation with seafood and Thai, sushi and Asian-inspired cuisine.

A winner at 2946 Bloor Street West near Royal York
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LAST CHANCE!
VINTAGES BEST BUYS
Outstanding St. David's Bench Pinot Noir

Queenston Mile Pinot Noir 2017
A Vintage Assessments Recommended Best Buy
Vintages Flagship #10138 - $40.00
Ripe, Complex, Well Structured ***+ (94 points)
Faintly ambering deep red colour, the lovely nose is intense, complex and faintly smoky with ripe Damson plum, black cherry fruit and some raspberry-tinged, gently cedary notes. Dry, medium-full bodied, well structured, harmonious, ripe plummy, black cherry, raspberry-cassis fruit flavours with a lingering, bright, complex, gently cedary finish. Winemaker Rob Power's delicious St. David’s Bench Pinot Noir is definitely worth buying and drinking now. Aged for 16 months in French oak with full malolactic, it has 12.7% alcohol, 3 g/L residual sugar and 6.3 g/L total acidity. Its great mouthfeel is a result of minimal filtration.
As of today now only 97 bottles remain in 8 stores
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Local Vintage Destinations
Until October 28 at the Stratford Festival
LES BELLES-SOEURES
see review from The Globe & Mail
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QUESTION: How is it that a classic Best Buy French Rose - an annual Vintages ultra-popular sell-out - was moved by the LCBwithout informing the agent to the "everyday list" & is now languishing in just in a handful of stores?
There are over 15,000 bottles TODAY at the LCBO
but only 1,883 bottles in 147 outets
THE ANSWER IS COMING