The Wine Ladies talk tiff, wine and celebrity with Jackson-Triggs star winemaker

WOW, this is a very exciting time for us here in our fair city of Toronto, the Toronto Film Festival www.tiff.net is about to kick off in just a couple of weeks, you can feel the groundswell of anticipation percolating! (Or should we say fermenting?)

WOW, this is a very exciting time for us here in our fair city of Toronto, the Toronto Film Festival www.tiff.net is about to kick off in just a couple of weeks, you can feel the groundswell of anticipation percolating! (Or should we say fermenting?)

This is a very exciting time for The Wine Ladies too as we’re going to be interviewing many of the celebrities here for the festival with our new TV show!!The Wine Ladies “Talking Wine with the Stars”!How fun is that going to be? We’ll look at the role of wine in movies, such as in Sideways and Bottleshock? What the celebrities drinking these days, who’s into wine and who’s not and if not why not? We can’t wait! Make sure to check out The Wine Ladies BLOG, www.thewineladies.com TWITTER http://twitter.com/TheWineLadies and YOU TUBE http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BAC922F31D95EF06&search_query=the+wi on a DAILY BASIS for all updates for our interviews with the stars. We promise its going to be simply star studded dahhhhhhhhhhhhling and amazing! Watch for more on that later!

With all the writers, directors, actors here from around the world, what a great opportunity and platform for us to introduce them all to our Canadian award winning wines! Our winery of choice!.Jackson-Triggs www.jacksontriggs.com ! Founded in 1993, voted as “Best Canadian Winery” 20 times in domestic and international competitions Jackson-Triggs represents some of Canada’s finest wines. Throughout the festival we’ll be sipping on and toasting with some of JT’s finest while we talk wine with the stars.

An undisputable star in his own right, the charming and extremely talented Marco Piccoli, Winemaker for Jackson Triggs Niagara-on-the-Lake, Marco joined us in the radio studio to share his philosophy of winemaking, what it takes to make a great wine and more. Also in studio to learn a little more about this fabulous wine producer, Casey Howe, Marketing Manager for Jackson-Triggs Estate Wines. It’s an hour packed to the brim including special TIFF food and wine pairings and celebrity wine pairings too!

Caption: Marco Piccoli Winemaker Jackson-Triggs Niagara and Casey Howe Marketing Manager Jackson-Triggs Estate Wines

So set that dial to CP24 Radio1050 ( 1050 am radio dial) or on line at www.CP24.com this Saturday morning August 29th,2009 at 10a.m. to connect with The Wine Ladies radio show and to hear the interview in its entirety!

We all love the classic paring of popcorn and a movie well why not step things up a notch for the tiff screenings and your after party with Jackson-Triggs 2003 Grand Reserve M