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Summer Holiday $17 Best Buy French White
VILLA BLANCHE 2025 VIOGNIER
Fresh, Bright, Pear-Citrus-Melon **+ (89-points)
Only $17.00 - in 200+ regular LCBO Stores - #32017
Viognier is an indigenous French grape. It has a light straw colour with ripe, wintermelon-apple-pear fruit aromatics that jump out of the glass. Dry, refreshing and medium bodied, the gently spicy, melon-pear fruit flavours are followed up by a lingering smooth finish. Well-priced and ready-to-drink, this crowd-pleaser pairs perfectly with almost anything - from vegetarian dishes, mussels, spicy chicken wings and even Mexican tamales. Agent: United Stars

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Vintages & Classics Hidden July 20%-off Sale
NOW 30% OFF on 265 Vintages items
It started on July 8. Unfortunately the LCBO did not provide the public with the huge list of 270+ items (Classics & Vintages) being discounted by 20%. Unfortunately when I searched two items that are discounted (see below), only the regular price appears on the LCBO website. You have to actually go to the LCBO store and see if a RED hand-written discount price appears on the display bin tag at that store. No LCBO stores with discounts are revealed online or anywhere else. These discounts were only at Flagship store #149 at Bloor West & Royal York.

I spotted that my recommended Hidden Bench GAMAY 2023 was on sale at store 149 for only $24 vs $29.95. This discounted in-store $24 price does not appear anywhere on the website. In fact, the LCBO website has it listed $29.95 at this store. As of JULY 23 all remaining 265 Vintages releases were reduced another 10% to a 30% discount.

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A Very Suave Italian Summer White
Pieropan Soave Classico 2023
Fresh, Bright, Pear-Citrus-Melon *** (90-points)
$21.95 - July 18 Vintages #946848
Bright medium straw colour. Fresh, slightly spicy, minerally, lemon-melon-apple nose. Dry, medium bodied, gently spicy, faintly honeyed, minerally, melon-apple-pear flavours with a lively, unoaked, faintly savoury finish. This well balanced ready-to-enjoy Venetian summer refresher is a lees-aged blend of 90% Garganega and 10% Trebbiano di Soave with only 12% alcohol and 2 g/L residual sugar. Agent: HALPERN

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