By Rick VanSickle On a warm, late-summer’s day in 2011, I sat outside Ilya and Nadia Senchuk’s recently purchased home in Winona sipping the very fir
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By Rick VanSickle It’s become perfectly clear that seismic changes are on the horizon for wine retailing in Ontario. What isn’t so crystal clear is w
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By Rick VanSickle If alcohol is your thing, it’s the most wonderful time of the year, especially at Ontario’s booze monopoly, the LCBO. (more…
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By Rick VanSickle We are zig-zagging our way through the four gorgeous vineyards that make up the League of Farmers wine brand on a rather dreary day
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By Rick VanSickle For 23 years, when the first Stratus Red was set free into the world, we have bought into the belief that a top-down approach to wi
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