The wine region of Twenty Mile Bench is located in the region of Niagara Escarpment - Ontario of Ontario of Canada. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Pearl Morissette or the Domaine Two Sisters produce mainly wines white, red and sparkling. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Twenty Mile Bench are Pinot noir, Chardonnay and Riesling, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Twenty Mile Bench often reveals types of flavors of cream, citrus or dried fruit and sometimes also flavors of tropical fruit, tree fruit or vegetal.
In the mouth of Twenty Mile Bench is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 31 estates and châteaux in the of Twenty Mile Bench, producing 115 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Twenty Mile Bench go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian.
The industry launched a certification programme called Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand (SWNZ) back in 1995. It now covers 1,840 vineyards and 310 wineries. Growers can only achieve SWNZ certification by passing stringent tests within six key areas: water, waste, pest and disease control, soil, climate change and people. They must subject themselves to regular audits conducted by an independent company, which assesses the overall sustainability of their operations and verifies that they are m ...
A survey of 2,000 investors in the UK found links between Generation Z, loosely covering those up to 25 years of age, and fine wine investment. While close to half of all survey respondents said they had invested in so-called alternative assets, such as fine wine, whisky, art or crypto, this proportion rose to 62% for the under-25s. Commissioned by merchant Bordeaux Index and conducted by market research agency 3Gem, the survey suggests younger investors ‘are turning to fine wine’ as ...
I’d like to say we took advantage of the lockdown and its related commotion to do a stock-take, explore new avenues, turn over intriguing stones, widen and deepen our drinking, taking careful notes as we went. Sadly, no. I won’t say we got stuck in a rut, but we did tend to stick with comfort wines – and “comfort”, in our case, means familiar. Regular readers of this quarterly column can probably guess the labels on the resulting empties. We have a wider range of comfort foods, I’m afraid, than ...
