{"id":37809,"date":"2017-03-24T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37809"},"modified":"2017-03-23T17:15:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T21:15:28","slug":"the-lcbo-phones-in-their-ontario-vip-selections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/03\/24\/the-lcbo-phones-in-their-ontario-vip-selections\/","title":{"rendered":"The LCBO “phones in” their Ontario VIP selections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Pinkus<\/a> on the odd choices of wines to celebrate some Ontario wine luminaries:<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be honest, the LCBO is lackadaisical, at best, when it comes to promoting Ontario wines, and they do it with such a blas\u00e9 attitude it is embarrassing in the way they continue to absolutely fail the people of Ontario \u2026 let me explain and expand.<\/p>\n

The main feature of the April 1, 2017 release is \u201cVisionaries, Innovators and Pioneers\u201d (VIP) \u2013 on a global scale – here you\u2019ll see names you recognize and wineries that are household names (or one\u2019s that should be) \u2013 people like Angelo Gaja (Italy), Ben Glaetzer (Australia), Ken Forrester (South Africa), Michel Chapoutier (France) and Nicolas Catena (Argentina) and for each they pair a wine to go along with them \u2026 I question the wine selection for these iconic wine luminaries, but what the hey, sometimes those iconic wines are sold out (icon wines do that) and you then have to go for secondary wines by those producers. <\/p>\n

Then I reached the part with our local VIPs: Moray Tawse (true, a more recent member of the VIP club and in my opinion kind of an easy choice by the LCBO), even more lazy are the wines selected, far from what I would call his \u201ciconic\u201d ones; but that seems to be par-for-the-course in this release. Tawse makes single vineyard \/ single block wines that are \u201cthe bomb\u201d, yet the LCBO chose a \u201cGrowers Blend\u201d and a \u201cSketches\u201d wine, seriously? <\/p>\n

But the one that incensed me the most was Chateau des Charmes, not for the man they named, Paul Bosc Sr., who is a Visionary, Pioneer AND Innovator in Ontario, but the wine that was chosen to represent him: Cabernet Icewine? When I saw that, you could have knocked me over with a feather; what happened to Gamay Noir Droit? Single vineyard varietal offerings? Sparkling wine? Or even Equuleus? But instead of showing off these iconic \/ original table wines the LCBO goes for the easy layup of Icewine; which isn\u2019t even what Bosc is known for (though he makes excellent versions of it), that honour should have gone to Inniskillin (Donald Ziraldo and Karl Kaiser)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Pinkus on the odd choices of wines to celebrate some Ontario wine luminaries: Let\u2019s be honest, the LCBO is lackadaisical, at best, when it comes to promoting Ontario wines, and they do it with such a blas\u00e9 attitude it is embarrassing in the way they continue to absolutely fail the people of Ontario \u2026 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,6,131],"tags":[395,788,87],"class_list":["post-37809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cancon","category-wine","tag-lcbo","tag-niagara","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9PP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37810,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37809\/revisions\/37810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}