Peter Wearing, Author at The Small Winemakers Collection

Developing Your Wine Tasting Skills: A How-To Guide

Peter Wearing Featured, Tasting Tips Leave a comment January 28, 2021October 11, 2018

Developing your wine tasting skills requires practice and dedication. Not all wine tasters will have the ability to detect the more intricate elements of a wine overnight. Therefore, in order to refine your palate, you must be willing to invest both time and effort to understand how and why wines are different. This article will discuss techniques and exercises that you can employ when you are a tasting a wine to improve not only your tasting abilities but also your …

Demystifying Rosé Wine: Which Rosé Should You Choose?

Peter Wearing Featured, Wine Styles Leave a comment September 19, 2022June 8, 2017

Rosé has exploded onto the North American scene in the past decade. In France, it now surpasses the sale of white wine. While we enter a three-month stretch of blissful pink wine drinking weather we have to keep in mind that not all rosés are created equally. There are many factors that contribute to a good quality rosé. In fact, the different pink hues, styles, variety of grapes, county and producer can all effect quality and it can be daunting …

What could be better than a 95 point wine for under $20?

Peter Wearing Uncategorized Leave a comment December 6, 2019April 29, 2017

A 95 point wine for under $16, that’s what! 2013 Vidal Fleury Cotes du Rhone $15.95 per bottle / Available at Vintages 65% Grenache, 20% Syrah, 10% Mourvedre. Enjoys a deep nose with white pepper, graphite notes and bright red fruits. The palate is powerful and intense with black cherry and dark, muscular berry fruit, crisp acid and some neat, grippy, slightly salted tannins. The finish is long with berries and spice. Score – 95. (Decanter World Wine Awards, 2016) …

Wine Profile: Why is Riesling a Super Grape?

Peter Wearing Wine Profiles, Featured Leave a comment August 13, 2021April 21, 2017

Pronunciation:[reece-ling] Origin: Originating in Germany’s Rhineland in 1435, when a German count bought six vines making it the first documented varietal sale Styles: Dry, semi-sweet, sweet and sparkling white wines Profile: Colour: Bright, pale yellow when young or gold when aged Sweetness: Wide range from bone dry to very sweet Acidity: High Body: Light Alcohol: Low/Medium Ageing: From 5 to 30 depending on style, vintage and producer There is almost nothing better than sipping a cold glass of delicious Riesling …

Dark, Spicy and Delicious — 92 pts Septima Obra Malbec 2014 — 6 pack

Peter Wearing Weekly offerings Leave a comment September 19, 2022January 24, 2017

2014 Septima Obra Malbec $26.95 btl / $161.70 cs (case of 6 x 750ml) The Septima Obra Malbec 2014 is the perfect representation of the terroir of Mendoza Valley. This Malbec is made using the best grapes and exceptional winemaking practices of the renowned Bodega Septima winery. It is also an exclusive offer that we only get once a year. This wine boasts dark, spicy blackberry and plum along with earthy notes on the nose. On the palate it matches …

iGreco Masino – Three Glass Award winner in 6 packs

Peter Wearing Weekly offerings Leave a comment January 13, 2023January 18, 2017

2013 iGreco “Masino” Nero di Calabria $38.90 btl / $233.40 cs (case of 6 x 750ml) The iGreco winery was our discovery of the year last year, and we are thrilled to be able to make an offer of this bold and ageworthy wine made from Nero di Calabria. It has an intense nose of ripe blackberry, wild plum, kirsch and hints of vanilla, cinnamon and savoury rosemary. The palate is full-bodied, rich, ripe and flavourful. Plenty of ripe tannins …

The best Barolo we’ve ever tried — available in 3 packs!

Peter Wearing Weekly offerings Leave a comment December 6, 2019January 10, 2017

There was a time when wine was an even greater part of everyday Italian life than it is today. It was consumed with every meal and was often part of it — children, for example, regularly started the day with a slice of bread dipped in red wine. Consumption reached a peak of well over 100 litres per adult (15 years and older) per year during the early Sixties when the country was positively swimming in wine. Around the mid-Seventies, …

Spanish Wine Society 2017 Wine Tours to Andalucia

Peter Wearing Promotions Leave a comment August 13, 2021December 13, 2016

THE SOUL OF ANDALUCIA: SEVILLA AND SHERRY Wine, Cuisine, Art, and Architecture In light of the overwhelming responses to our tours, in 2017 I am taking four groups to Andalusia in southern Spain! The tours will commence in Sevilla for three glorious nights in the Hotel Alfonso XIII (Grand Deluxe rooms!), after which we travel to Jerez de la Frontera for eight nights in the always so charming and welcoming, Hotel Sherry Park. Group I – May 17 arrive Sevilla …

An Okanagan Beauty – Sandhill Syrah

Peter Wearing Weekly offerings Leave a comment December 6, 2019December 13, 2016

One of the reasons that I entered the wine business was the opportunity that it would provide to “see the world”. In the past 30 years I have been blessed in that I have visited most of the important grape-growing regions on the planet: Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, South Africa, California, Oregon and of course vineyards scattered throughout Europe. There are many spectacularly beautiful places on Earth that just happen to also grow grapes – anyone that has been …

Gaglioppo – The Discovery Wine of the Year

Peter Wearing Weekly offerings Leave a comment September 19, 2022December 6, 2016

One of the great pleasures of wine exploration is not just in encountering something new, but something special. Italy is full of something new. An adventurous consumer can find dozens of new grape varieties to explore: red and white; fat and thin; rich and lean. However, it is not often that you are introduced to a wine that is at once both special and new. Gaglioppo is one such wine – that rare combination of unique and profound. Gaglioppo finds …