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For your convenience, Red White & Bubbly has grouped reviews of particular stores and wines with our catalogue listings. Simply search for a wine using the Advanced Wine Search and each result is coupled with reviews from Red White & Bubbly, online connoisseurs and users like yourself.
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Red White & Bubbly provides notes on each bottle we stock, and some that may be carried in the future. Click a date below to read more about the results of our tastings. Bookmark this page and check back soon, as we add new tasting notes regularly. |
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The Importance of Tasting
I won’t buy a wine without tasting it, and why should you? (That thumping sound you hear is the sound of other wine merchants collapsing on the floor.) One of the things that I’m the most proud of with Red White & Bubbly is that my customers so often tell me that every wine they buy from me tastes good!Wine is an agricultural product: the quality of the wine is determined in the vineyard by grapes that respond to the differences in weather from one year to another. The winemaker, especially a good one, respects this and doesn’t try to force the grapes to produce something that they haven’t grown into. Just because a wine has pleased one or two “critics” does not mean anything... other than it has pleased one or two critics. A wine that tasted very good last year might miss the mark this year. How to tell? Taste!When I taste wines, I’m also looking for value. There are plenty of wines on the market that I think are overpriced, and I simply won’t buy them. Some of these are very well-know wines whose advertising budgets have driven up their price so much that what was once a good, affordable everyday wine is now over $20. Instead of playing into this game, I find a better tasting wine from the same grape, grown in the same area, and will cost you less money. It takes time to find them, and some wine shop owners have told me that it’s too much work to do this, but I believe that I owe it to you. It’s an important part of my job.From the first week that we opened over five years ago, we have invited our customers to taste wines with us. Every Friday from 5 until 8, and every Saturday and Sunday from 2 until 6 we have a winemaker, an importer, or one of their representatives here to offer tastes of as many as six wines (during last year’s Rosé Festival, we offered 8. Join us on Saturday May 20th for this year’s Rosé Festival... I can promise that you’ll be happily surprised!). By having someone on hand who knows the wines well, we offer more than just a taste: we can give an informed answer to your questions, as well as advice on buying, storing and serving wine.One thing I can’t understand about some stores that do offer tastings: how do they expect you to taste from one of those ridiculous, tiny plastic cups? You know the ones I’m talking about: they’re half the size of a shot glass. I taste wines almost every day, and I can’t smell the aromas of a wine poured (dribbled?) into one of those, so I would never expect you to! At Red White and Bubbly we proudly serve your tastes in a crystal INAO tasting glass, the same glass used in every winery I have ever visited, and used by judges in wine competitions all over the world. We have a commercial quality Hobart glass washer that can wash, rinse and sanitize three dozen glasses in just three minutes! It’s the same machine that’s used in restaurants to insure that your glass is sparkling clean: I wouldn’t think of offering anything less to my customers.
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