Ask The Wine Ladies- What is the difference between Organic and Biodynamic wine?

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DEAR THE WINE LADIES,

Probably a little slower than most to jump on the bandwagon as a fan of Australian wine, however, my latest discovery was a delicious Shiraz. It came from a biodynamic winery called Paxton and the wine was Paxton MV Shiraz. Can you tell me a little about this winery and how being biodynamic affects the taste of a wine? I am familiar with organic wines but not with biodynamic.

– JEREMY

DEAR JEREMY,

Absolutely, we’d be happy to. It’s never too late, or better late than never to enjoy and discover new wines. PAXTON, located in McLaren Vale South Australia, is a family owned winery founded in 1979 by David Paxton. Mr. Paxton is recognized as one of Australia’s most highly respected viticulturists, growing grapes of exceptional quality for over thirty years, all biodynamical. The company owns and manages their own vineyards exclusively which are spread across various sites and soil types in the region. Their goal is to showcase the exceptional quality of the fruit, the expression and natural diversity of the grapes, with a particular emphasis on Shiraz, which is well regarded as the region’s top performing variety.

The Paxton MV Shiraz you enjoyed is made with grapes from four of the six biodynamic properties they own and manage. MV ‘McLaren Vale’ or ‘Multiple Vineyard’ “was developed to highlight optimum fruit flavours” says David Paxton. You stand in great company as a fan of this wine, as James Halliday, guru critic of Australian wine rated the 2015 MV Shiraz 92 points.

David Paxton best describes how a wine may be impacted by biodynamic practices.

“Biodynamic is the most advanced form of organic farming. We use natural preparations and composts to bring the soil and vines into balance, resulting in wines that truly showcase our McLaren Vale vineyards.” A few examples of this is the incorporation of bee hives in the vineyards which improves grape pollination, and the use of cow manure as a compost that comes exclusively from Paxton’s own small herd of cows. Why? Because manure tainted with chemical intestinal worm treatments make poor compost and their own cows will ensure the integrity of the compost.

With respect to the added benefits of this type of farming – when the viticulture and the winemaking “work in synchronicity” the result is a naturally elegant wine, that radiates purity, vitality and elegance.

AVAILABLE AT THE LCBO
Paxton MV Shiraz 2015
Shiraz/Syrah
Vintages: 327403

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Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Brut Rosé Champagne

On this week’s radio show… Festive Fizz For The Holidays! Laurent-Perrier Cuvée

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Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Brut Rosé Champagne

Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Brut Rosé Champagne

So today our focus will be on just that kicking off with the quintessential historic bubbly.

The most famous sparkling in the world, Champagne! Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Brut Rosé Champagne. The iconic Cuvée Rosé, in the famous Rosé bottle and remains the benchmark. Champagne synonymous with glamour, celebration and decadence!

 Joining us today, calling in from the beautiful region of Champagne, Marine Roupsy. Marine is the Export Manager for Canada for one of the most celebrated and historical Champagne houses, founded in 1812 that is the iconic Laurent-Perrier Champagne.

We’ll chat about Champagne in general, then delve into the story of Laurent-Perrier, a blend of two families that goes way back.

Episode 62

Listen to Marine Roupsy at 4:35 minutes in the show.

Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Brut Rosé Champagne

Laurent-Perrier Cuvée Brut Rosé Champagne

The iconic Cuvée Rosé, in the famous Rosé bottle and remains the benchmark.
This Cuvée Rosé Brut is 100% Pinot Noir based on 2008 (90%). The color is an intense orange-colored pink and the nose offers beautifully subtle, but also deep, intense flavors of ripe and macerated Pinot Noir and lemon.
There is also great purity and finesse on the structured palate. The finish is fresh and reveals a perfect fruit. This rosé drinks almost like a light red wine.

Foss Marai Prosecco

Perfect for the holidays! Foss Marai Prosecco,one of the most respected Prosecco producers in Italy.

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On this week’s radio show… 

Festive Fizz For The Holidays! Foss Marai Prosecco.

The Wine Ladies open a bottle of Foss Marai Prosecco

The Wine Ladies open a bottle of Foss Marai Prosecco

And for those with great taste, but with perhaps with a little more modest budget.

We will explore one of the fastest growing wines in popularity, that is the Italian sparkling specialty, Prosecco!

The whole sparkling wine category is just exploding with Prosecco leading the charge in a really big way!

The Wine ladies and their guests enjoyed the Foss Marai Prosecco at a recent holiday party.

To learn more about this trend, the drink, the place.. yes it Prosecco is a village. We’ll be joined by Umberto Biasiotto, the CEO/Owner of Foss Marai Prosecco.
Foss Marai is considered one of the most respected and appreciated producers of Prosecco in Italy. They produce a benchmark product with their laser focus on quality and elegance.


Listen to Umberto Biasiotto at 20:10 minutes in the show.

Episode 62 

Foss Marai Extra Dry Prosecco

Foss Marai Extra Dry Prosecco

Foss Marai Extra Dry 

MARAI de MARAI stems from a blend of grapes native to the hills of the Alto Trevigiano region of Italy. The long-standing commitment of Foss Marai in the reclamation of disused native vines and experimentations in the vine-growing field has given rise to MARAI de MARAI Extra Dry, a highly fruity, light, easy to drink wine.

Elegantly versatile, it is an inviting drink at all times of day. It has an attractive rounded flavour.

Available at the LCBO. Vintages # 729392 $19.95 per bottle

To learn more…Festive Fizz! In love with Champagne and Prosecco.

Diets Don’t Work! Fads WON’T Work! Non-Food NEEDS to go! Calories DON’T count! Weight DOESN’T matter!

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JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, JIMMY LESAGE’S NEW BOOK.

New Life Hiking Spa’s 40 Years of Authentic Wellness

now available on AMAZON and Balboa Press! Purchase on line here now.

Product Description

“In the Green Mountains of Central Vermont is the New Life Hiking Spa, owned and operated by Jimmy LeSage for forty consecutive years. New Life is a program that helps guests awaken themselves to the power of nutrition and fitness. New Life is Jimmy’s forum for including guests on his four-decade journey to authentic wellness. Jimmy shares that journey’s wisdom by assisting guests to translate their New Life experience into their own lifestyle upon return home. Jimmy’s own journey and the impressive body-spirit changes in New Life guests give Jimmy much of relevance to impart about our prospects for well-being as we consider our lifestyle and relationship with food.

Health, fitness, wellness, and quality of life have become such big news that any reasonable understanding is not only confusing. It is downright difficult. At New Life, and now in this presentation, Jimmy travels with you to assure that you will differentiate meaningfully between passing fads and noteworthy trends in wellness.

Jimmy’s journey merits your attention because it, like the well-being it speaks of, is very personal and authentic. We may find that New Life is so personal for Jimmy that it came to pass as much for himself as for all who have or ever will come. New Life has become a laboratory that has endowed Jimmy with a commitment to the healing power of good food and a bit of activity.

Jimmy has transformed New Life into an incubator for practical steps out of the confusion and complication in the bottom-line requirement for existence: food. Jimmy earns your attention because the journey on which he invites you has prepared him thoroughly to inspire you to initiate changes in your own food behaviors.”

Jimmy Lesage, Founder and Director of The New Life Hiking Spa, celebrating its 40th anniversary.

Jimmy to talk about the hiking, the area and good healthy eating. He also debunks some of the old adages about diets out there.

      Diets Don’t Work! Fads WON’T Work! Non-Food NEEDS to go! Calories DON’T count! Weight DOESN’T matter!

Listen to Jimmy Lesage at 3:41 minutes into the radio show.

On this week’s radio show…Vermont…. its vino and stunning heart healthy hiking! New Life Hiking Spa’s 40 years of Authentic Wellness.

On this week’s radio show…Vermont…. its vino and stunning heart healthy hiking! New Life Hiking Spa’s 40 years of Authentic Wellness.

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On this week’s radio show…Vermont…. its vino and stunning heart healthy hiking! New Life Hiking Spa’s 40 years of Authentic Wellness.

On this week’s radio show we venture to the Green Mountain State in the north east of the USA, where we will let our boots do the walking and our palates as usual do some extraordinary tasting.
We are talking about the beautiful state of Vermont, yes its vino and its extraordinary hiking is our focus for this week.



Episode WL 12-07-2017

Killing it in Killington, feels so good! 

The Wine Ladies with Jess and Heather two of the many amazing hiking guides at New Life Hiking Spa.


  

Our first guest, Jimmy Lesage, Founder and Director of The New Life Hiking Spa, celebrating its 40th anniversary.

Jimmy to talk about the hiking, the area and good healthy eating. He also debunks some of the old adages about diets out there.

      Diets Don’t Work! Fads WON’T Work! Non-Food NEEDS to go! Calories DON’T count! Weight DOESN’T matter!

Listen to Jimmy Lesage at 3:41 minutes into the radio show.

 Jimmy was one of the pioneers in creating destination spa wellness vacations. Today it has been heralded by Travel + Leisure magazine as “WORLD’S BEST AWARDS 2016 #1 Destination Spa in the United States”, “A Top Ten Wellness Retreat Pick” by MSN and “A Top 10 Wellness Spa” by Spafinder.

JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, JIMMY’S NEW BOOK.

New Life Hiking Spa’s 40 Years of Authentic Wellness

now available on AMAZON and Balboa Press! Purchase on line here now.

Product Description
“In the Green Mountains of Central Vermont is the New Life Hiking Spa. The spa is owned and operated by Jimmy LeSage for forty consecutive years. New Life is a program that helps guests awaken themselves to the power of nutrition and fitness. New Life is Jimmy’s forum for including guests on his four-decade journey to authentic wellness. Jimmy shares that journey’s wisdom by assisting guests to translate their New Life experience into their own lifestyle upon return home. Jimmy’s own journey and the impressive body-spirit changes in New Life guests give Jimmy much of relevance to impart about our prospects for well-being as we consider our lifestyle and relationship with food.

Health, fitness, wellness, and quality of life have become such big news that any reasonable understanding is not only confusing. It is downright difficult. At New Life, and now in this presentation, Jimmy travels with you to assure that you will differentiate meaningfully between passing fads and noteworthy trends in wellness.

Jimmy’s journey merits your attention because it, like the well-being it speaks of, is very personal and authentic.

We may find that New Life is so personal for Jimmy that it came to pass as much for himself as for all who have or ever will come. New Life has become a laboratory that has endowed Jimmy with a commitment to the healing power of good food and a bit of activity.

Jimmy has transformed New Life into an incubator for practical steps out of the confusion and complication in the bottom-line requirement for existence: food. Jimmy earns your attention because the journey on which he invites you has prepared him thoroughly to inspire you to initiate changes in your own food behaviors.”

ENTER TO WIN! VIP Wine Tasting Tour to the Niagara Icewine Festival withThe Wine Ladies and 6Na Limousines!

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Enter to Win a VIP Wine Tasting Tour to the Niagara Icewine Festival with The Wine Ladies and 6Na Presidential Limousine Services!

You could be one of 6 lucky people to join us on our private wine tour during the Niagara Icewine Festival this January 2018.(Prize tour to take place between Jan 12th – 28th) For three weeks in January the Niagara region is transformed into a wintry wonderland, in celebration of one of Canada’s most cherished products, Ontario Icewine.

We have created a very special VIP experience for you.

Spend the day with us! Travel in style and comfort in our stylish, sleek and shiny 6Na Presidential Limousine and visit 3 special award winning local wineries Vineland Estates Winery, Lakeview Wine Co and Strewn Winery). An exclusive experience created especially for our group including samplings of some of Ontario’s best Icewine, sparkling and premium VQA wines.

Everything for your day is included from wine tastings and special winery experiences, gourmet lunch and snacks, to a VIP limo transport and a complimentary gift bag filled to the brim!

 Here’s how to enter!

It’s as easy as 1-2-3 !!!!!

1. Follow us on Twitter @TheWineLadies @6NaLimo or Facebook TheWineLadies or Instagram #TheWineLadies  #6NaLimousines 

You choose your favourite social media! Examples entries included below.

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Which Canadian iconic wine is considered “liquid gold”.
Answer: Icewine

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Please Enter me to Win a VIP Wine Tasting Tour to the Niagara Icewine Festival with The Wine Ladies and 6Na Presidential Limousine Services for me and 5 guests! Looking forward to tasting Canada’s iconic wine, Icewine plus sparkling and VQA wines at 3 award winning wineries, (Vineland Estates Winery, Lakeview Wine Co, Strewn Winery) !

Example Instagram Posts to #TheWineLadies #6NaLimousines

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Contest Rules
1.Make sure that you follow us on Twitter @TheWineLadies @6NaLimo Facebook and Instagram

2.Enter as many times as you like from Wednesday, November 15th, 2017 at 11:00am until Wednesday, December 13th, 2017 at 5:00 pm tweet and re-tweet and follow @TheWineLadies @6Nalimos

3.Each time you tweet (or re-tweet our Tweets) using the hash tag #IceWineTour6NaLimo

The winners will be randomly selected at noon on Thursday, December 14th, 2017 and will be notified via TWITTER and FACEBOOK and Instagram

Must be 19 years of age or older to win.

Your prize will include the following: Prize Value $1500 ( 6 persons)

Round trip exclusive limo service from the Burlington GO station to Niagara wine country with 6Na Limousine Services. (Eight passengers including The Wine Ladies)

Visit to 3 participating Award Winning Wineries

Vineland Estates Winery – A tutored tasting of iconic wines and champion cheeses conducted by one of their wine experts.This guided sensory experience will demonstrate match and balance pairings and showcase the versatility of contrasting options. Cheese please!!! We will also leave time for wine shopping for the group too!

Lakeview Wine Co – a paired tasting of a selection of 3-4 wines and delectable lunch at this stunning new facility. Of course time for wine shopping for the group too!

Strewn Winery – Two of life’s greatest pleasures together, wine and chocolate! A private wine and chocolate tasting in the barrel cellar. Of course time for wine shopping for the group too!

All tasting fees

All pairing fees where applicable

A complimentary gift bag filled with wine related goodies

Cellar and facility tasting

Delicious light lunch at Lakeview Wine Co

Length of tour 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM traffic dependent

Coffee, tea and fresh pastries for the trip down

Bottled still & sparkling water throughout the day

Introducing uncompromising wines from Nova Scotia and Benjamin Bridge. Rare terroir, classic techniques.

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 On this week’s radio show…Toasting Canada’s 150th with wineries from coast to coast.

 Well we surely have plenty reason to pop the cork for Canada’s 150th birthday and that is exactly what we are going to do today with our featured wineries from different wine regions, Ontario, Nova Scotia and British Columbia.

This region hugs the Atlantic side of North America, and is one of the most challenging places to grow wine grapes in the world, but it works. Nova Scotia folks, now being touted by many as “Canada’s next great wine region!

We’re so looking forward to chatting with winemaker Jean-Benoit Deslauriers of the multi award winning winery Benjamin Bridge Estate Winery located in the Gaspereau Valley of Nova Scotia, here are a couple of quotes describing the winery’s bubbly!

“Mind blowing sparkling wines that would challenge any highly – rated French Champagne” 

 Anthony Gismondi for the Vancouver Sun

And Tony Aspler had this to say “They are without question the best sparkling wines I have tasted in Canada”

“It’s a sparkler that rivals Champagne…one of the best Canadian wines I’ve tasted. ” 

Beppi Crosariol

Listen to Jean-Benoit Deslauriers at 17:49 minutes in the show.

Episode 59

 

Next up we explore another exciting wine producing province in which temperatures dip well below zero. Nova Scotia.

Frisky Beaver Wanted Poster

Stay tuned…On this week’s radio show…Toasting Canada’s 150th with wineries from coast to coast. Wanted! Pink Beaver… Someone stole our pet!!

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 Pioneering winemakers are busy discovering new wine regions within Ontario.Ontario’s next VQA appellation Norfolk County, home of the Rapscallion Wine Company and the Frisky Beaver wine!

On this week’s radio show…Toasting Canada’s 150th with wineries from coast to coast.

On the show today we continue to celebrate and honour our nations  sesquicentennial birthday that is Canada’s 150th.

Happy Birthday Canada….a toast to you!  And what a fabulous country. Canada has been named AGAIN the 2nd “Best Country” (9.7 rating) in the world for a second year in a row, the “Great White North” was ranked second (Switzerland is #1 with a perfect 10 in the annual
“Best Countries” survey from the U.S. News & World Report.

Well we surely have plenty reason to pop the cork for Canada’s 150th birthday and that is exactly what we are going to do today with our 2 featured wineries from different wine regions, Ontario, Nova Scotia and British Columbia.

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Our first winery from here locally in Ontario, most suitable for Canada’s birthday, the wine is called Frisky Beaver… Don’t you love it, the winery also has another label Smoke & Gamble… the Rapscallion Wine Company is situated in an emerging wine region Norfolk County which is aiming to become Ontario’s next VQA appellation.
And that used to be at one time the tobacco belt, no longer, wine grapes are staking a claim and making some fantastic wine! 

 So joining us to fill us in on whats happening in the region, and fill us in on what’s up with the Frisky Beaver, selling out and winning multiple  awards is Brock Marshall. Brock is in Sales, Marketing and Operations at Rapscallion, Brock to be our first guest.

Listen to Brock at 4:10 minutes in the show.

Frisky Beaver Red VQA and Frisky Beaver White VQA widely available in Ontario at over 400 LCBO outlets, over 50 grocery stores with a wine/beer/spirits license and a number of licensed establishments.

Frisky Red winner of the Gold at the All Canadian Wine Championships 2017-Red Hybrid Blends category. Frisky Red won Double Gold in this category in 2016 as well.

New this month to the LCBO Frisky Beaver Chardonnay VQA.

A recent visit to Rapscallion Wine Company in Norfolk wine country and a lovely tasting with (left to right) Brock Marshall, Georgia, Peter Graham, Susanne and Richard Czerlau. Check out the complete article in Power Boating Canada.