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Vintages 2024 Buyers Guide
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BEST BUY CHAMPAGNE

A personal favourite of mine - consistently great!

Charles Heidsieck Brut Reserve Champagne
VINTAGES OCTOBER - #35962 - $94.95
Rich, Complex, Toasty ***+ (94-points)
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PREMIUM CALIFORNIA CHARD

Tyler Chardonnay 2023
VINTAGES OCTOBER - #28952 - $45.95
Intense, Complex, Elegant *** (93-points)
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A CLASSIC YOUTHFUL 16-YEAR-OLD RIOJA

Escudero Vidau 2008

VINTAGES NOVEMBER 16
- #4086 - $37.95
Rich, Ripe, Well Structured ***
(92
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NEW in Vintages. From the challenging 2008 vintage emerges a 16-year-old rich Rioja that still has lots of life. This traditional mixed-vine blend of 55% Granache, 30% Tempranillo and 20% Graciano/Mazuelo has a youthful deep ruby-red colour. Beguiling, warm, ripe, Damson plum fruit nose with cassis and black cherry notes along with refined toasty-sandalwood notes. Dry, medium-full bodied, well structured, very slightly spicy, intense, bright, ripe plum-crancherry-cassis flavours with a lingering, faintly savoury, elegant, cedary finish.Has 14% alcohol and was aged for 16 months in new French oak.

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Terre Dora di Paolo Il Principio Aglianico 2017
VINTAGES NOVEMBER - #26727 - $28.95
Dense, Robust, Autumnal Flavours *** (91-points)
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One Pound Per Acre Shiraz 2022
General List Best Buy #32829 - $9.95
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Fifty Years Ago

LCBO opens first Vintages store


  In those days it was called the Rare Wines & Spirits Shop & was initially located in a tiny third floor room adjacent to LCBO offices. It finally opened an upscale store across from St. Lawrence Market in 1974 - when Bollinger Brut R.D. Champagne 1961 was just $16.45 a bottle.
the original Toronto Life feature from March 1974
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