[Growwine] A wine for Canada's 2010 Olympics

[melissa lounsbury]

Maybe so Neil, but that is not what the mass majority say.



----- Original Message ----
From: Neil <neil at coffinridge.ca>
To: growwine at littlefatwino.com
Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2008 4:31:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Growwine] A wine for Canada's 2010 Olympics


It is not Harper’s house, he is only a tenant. We are the landlords and it sounds as though we have been a little stingy on proper repairs for OUR historic building. Let’s not be “Canadian” and cheap and let our equivalent of 10 Downing St ie 24 Sussex Dr fall into disrepair. That would be too much like having “cellared in Canada ” Olympic wine. If we were to neglect these properties then we deserve cellared in Canada wine.
 
Neil
 

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From:growwine-bounces at littlefatwino.com [mailto:growwine-bounces at littlefatwino.com] On Behalf Of melissa lounsbury
Sent: May 8, 2008 16:08
To: growwine at littlefatwino.com
Subject: Re: [Growwine] A wine for Canada 's 2010 Olympics
 
Anthony I would be fumming too, when you have a excellent product an they go the other way. Its like they want to spend ten million dollars to fix up harpers house , its all crapp. Maurice. 
 
----- Original Message ----
From: CanadaVintage < canadavintage at hotmail.com >
To: growwine at littlefatwino.com
Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2008 12:56:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Growwine] A wine for Canada 's 2010 Olympics

Same deal here in Quebec .  We got undersold by the same crap for Quebec 's 
400th anniversary celebration this summer.
Lost an order for 100 cases to a "cellared in Canada " piece of crap wine 
from Vincor who dumped the product into Quebec at $8/bottle.

What is even more to my disbelief is that the sommelier responsible for the 
purchase actually thought he was buying a 100% Canadian wine until I called 
to inform him! They still went ahead with the Vincor gut rot.


VQA fails at so many levels its not even funny anymore!

Anthony Carone
www.caronewines.com




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ryan Daum" <ryan at darksleep.com>
To: <growwine at littlefatwino.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Growwine] A wine for Canada 's 2010 Olympics


>I see now what Larry was trying to send:
>
> http://ontariowinereview.com/joomla/content/view/254/61/
>
> So it's even worse.  The wine to represent Canada is
> Constellation/Vincor, "Cellared In Canada" wine.
>
> How pathetic.
>
> Ryan
>
> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 01:07:55PM -0400, Ryan Daum wrote:
>> That link isn't working for me.
>>
>> But, if I were to nominate a single wine for the Olympics, I'd use the
>> following criterion:
>>
>> 1. It should be from B.C. since the games are hosted in Vancouver .
>> 2. It should be something unique, and not be trying to copy/imitate
>> French or other new world wines.  Let's not be pretentious.
>> 3. It should make a statement, be powerful.
>> 4. It should be a quality wine.
>>
>> So I'm going to suggest the Quail's Gate Old Vines Foch.  The
>> unfiltered reserve version I tried some years ago that turned the
>> inside of my face purple and left crazy lees on the bottom of the
>> decanter.  That ought to scare the wine critics.
>>
>> But instead, I bet you'll see Osoyoos Laroose or something else that
>> will remind the world that Canada is still an ex-colony trying to
>> impress the mother country.
>>
>> Ryan
>>
>> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 12:52:09PM -0400, Larry Paterson wrote:
>> > http://ontariowinereview.com/print/owr_newsletter_0082.pdf
>> >
>> > from Michael Pinkus
>> >
>> > comments?
>> >
>> > Lardy
>> >
>> > Larry Paterson, lfw, rd, adcc
>> > (Little Fat Wino, Roving Drunk, Alcohol Distribution Channels Critic)
>> >
>> > http://www.littlefatwino.com/
>> >
>>
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