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David Lawrason
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Nine Ontario sparkling wines that are twice as good as champagne for half the price
I will not be buying champagne for my New Year’s celebration. You can’t beat French bubbly for ostentatious luxury, but for...
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a delicious Californian red from an unexpected grape
Trentadue 2010 La Storia Petite Sirah $23.95 | Alexander Valley, California | Petite sirah is a black grape variety that has...
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Nine essential wines for all your holiday feasting needs
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a fine red from France’s killer 2009 vintage
E. Guigal 2009 Crozes-Hermitage $24.95 | Rhône Valley, France | One of the big wine stories of the year has been the flood of...
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a brooding winter red from an award-winning B.C. winery
Nk’Mip Qwam Qwmt 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon $28.95 | Okanagan Valley, B.C. | Nk’Mip Cellars (pronounced In-Ka-Meep) is an...
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: an impressive Italian blend at a great price
Zenato 2009 Rosso $11.25 | Veneto, Italy | The hills of Veneto in the vicinity of Verona are home to fresh, light valpolicella on...
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a barely fermented Ontario red that’s worth the “nouveau” fuss
Generation Seven 2012 Nouveau $11.95 | Niagara-on-the-Lake | This year’s crop of beaujolais nouveau bottles arrives today at the...
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a serious California Zinfandel
Seghesio 2010 Sonoma Zinfandel $29.95 | Sonoma County, California | Californians like to think of fruity, rich zinfandel as their...
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a new spin on Rioja
Palacios Remondo 2011 La Vendimia $14.95 | Rioja, Spain | If you have not tried the wines of Alavaro Palacios, Spain’s modern...
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a cabernet lover’s cab from Jack London’s vineyard
Kenwood 2009 Jack London Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon $37.95 | Sonoma Valley, California | The French have a great term for certain...
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Nine wines to build an unbeatable cellar, chosen by our critic David Lawrason
I recently spent an evening with my cousin pouring over-the-hill wine down the sink, about 10 bottles in all. We tasted each one...
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a light, woodsy pinot noir from New Zealand
Sacred Hill 2011 Pinot Noir $18.95 | Marlborough, New Zealand | Pinot Noir is the most autumnal of red wines, often described as...
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a Spanish white for sauvignon blanc lovers
Mania 2011 Verdejo $13.95 | Rueda, Spain | The small, sleepy town of Rueda lies in the arid highlands northeast of Madrid. Like...
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a classic bordeaux from the killer 2009 vintage
Château St. Georges 2009 St-Georges St-Émilion $34.95 | Bordeaux | Bordeaux was once the last word in fine red wine, but the...
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The New Guard: the best of the bunch from the LCBO’s fall release
Fashion is fickle, even in wine. There are occasional stampedes toward trendy brands: Argentina’s Fuzion and Australia’s...
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a go-to bottle of Chianti
Rocca Delle Macìe 2008 Chianti Riserva $15.95 | Tuscany, Italy | Tuscany is the focus of a current Vintages release, with a...
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a sprightly riesling from a virtual winery in Niagara
2027 Falls Vineyard 2011 Riesling $18.95 | Vinemount Ridge, Niagara Peninsula | You can travel back and forth across Niagara and...
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a rich Ontario baco noir from an especially fulsome vintage
Henry Of Pelham 2010 Reserve Baco Noir $24.95 | Ontario | For the next two weeks, the LCBO and Vintages are rolling out an Ontario...
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: an Okanagan merlot that’ll make you reconsider Sideways
Quails’ Gate 2009 Merlot $25.94 | Okanagan Valley, B.C. | Merlot has become the great forgotten red grape since being...
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: the perfect late-summer pinot
Domaine Parent 2010 Pinot Noir Bourgogne $19.95 | Burgundy, France | With one foot in autumn and the other still in summer, meal...
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Gamay Days: David Lawrason picks nine of his favourite gamays, from France to Niagara
Gamay is often known as the grape that makes lowly beaujolais nouveau, the gassy juice that’s sold only weeks after the grapes...
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: an excellent yet affordable Tuscan red
Antinori 2010 Santa Cristina $12.10 | Tuscany | Recently, many basic chiantis have “morphed” into IGT Tuscan reds, in order to...
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a classy, complex French Chablis
Drouhin Vaudon 2010 Chablis $19.95 | Burgundy, France | I am delighted to see this classy wine fill out the thin ranks of French...
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Casing Prince Edward County: five fabulous, under-the-radar wines
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The Private and Independent School Directory Fall 2024
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Deep Dives
Turf War: Old money versus new money at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club
For 148 years, the country’s oldest tennis club was an ivy-covered bastion of civility with a roster of like-minded, blue-blooded members. Then chaos erupted
Deep Dives
The Cult of Wellness: Othership, Nutbar and the expensive, obsessive quest for a perfect life
A growing cohort of Torontonians are swapping the coke-fuelled, booze-soaked club scene for cold plunges, sobriety and superfood smoothies. Here’s what it takes (and costs) to foster the ideal body and mind
Deep Dives
Michelin Men: Inside the making of LSL, Toronto’s wildly ambitious new fine-dining powerhouse
The $680-a-head uptown restaurant everyone’s talking about has three giant egos in the kitchen and one very rich benefactor calling the shots. If they don’t self-destruct, they may well produce something spectacular
Deep Dives
Inside Toronto’s explosion of bad dogs and worse owners
Boisterous, barky, humpy, mean: they’re everywhere and no one’s happy. Dispatches from the canine wars
Deep Dives
The Battle for Leslieville: Gentrification, opioids and murder in the city’s most divided neighbourhood
Last summer, when a stray bullet killed a young mother near the South Riverdale supervised consumption site, it sparked a vicious fight between area residents. One year later, tensions are high, neither side will back down and the overdose crisis rages on
Deep Dives
Scatterbrain: Inside the explosion of adult ADHD
Five years ago, hardly anyone was talking about adult ADHD. Now it’s all over social media, and self-diagnosis is rampant. How a complex neurological condition became the new superpower
Deep Dives
Who Earns What: The stories behind Toronto’s top salaries
From Olivia Chow to Galen Weston Jr. to Drake, here’s everything we could find on what the city’s biggest names are bringing home
Deep Dives
How the abuses of a small-town family doctor tore his community apart
Wameed Ateyah was the answer to Schomberg’s prayers: a family physician who took walk-ins, made house calls, gave to local charities. Then his dark secret was revealed
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2024
This year’s winners include a tiny perfect snack bar, a Japanese listening lounge and a high-flying steakhouse. What they all have in common is a fanatical commitment to excellence
Deep Dives
How Carley Fortune is reinventing the romance novel
In just two years, she’s published two runaway bestsellers, sold film rights to Prince Harry and Meghan, finished a third book—which hits shelves this month—and is well into her fourth. Here, she talks anti-romance snobbery, what makes a good sex scene and how sudden fame has changed her life
Deep Dives
The professor, the caregiver and the missing $30 million
Before he died, William Waters transferred his fortune to his wife’s caregiver. His lawyers say she coerced him. She says they were having an affair. The untold story of a scandalous estate battle
Deep Dives
The perilous lives of Canada’s international students
They come here for the promise of a good education and a better future. Then they discover the target on their backs
Deep Dives
My Psychotic Break: The postpartum nightmare no one talks about
After the birth of my first child, I split with reality. I had terrifying hallucinations, received messages from the spirit world and spent so much on New Age paraphernalia that I had to sell my house. A memoir on finding my way back to reality
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The Great Pretenders: How two faux-Inuit sisters cashed in on a life of deception
Karima Manji wanted it all for her twin daughters, Amira and Nadya. And she found a way to help them get it: financial aid earmarked for Indigenous kids. The fact that they weren’t remotely Indigenous wasn’t going to stop her
Cost of Living
City
This actor, bartender and financial planner makes $264,000 a year. How does she spend it?
“I’ve spent almost $5,000 on my dog this year”
City
This Wychwood couple makes $123,800 a year. How do they spend it?
“Ontario was too expensive, so we’re having our wedding in Mexico”
City
This Distillery District couple makes $120,000 a year. How do they spend it?
“I like fancy brunch and he likes dives—but all of it is expensive”
City
This registered dietitian makes $106,000 a year. How does she spend it?
“I spent more than $4,000 on my cats last year”
House of the Week
Real Estate
House of the Week: This East York property nearly tripled its asking price in two years
The 2,700-square-foot home comes with a wine rack suspended in mid-air, 20-foot vaulted ceilings and a basement with nanny-suite potential
Real Estate
House of the Week: $4.3 million for a quirky detached near Yonge and Eglinton that was won in a lottery
The 4,000-square-foot property comes with an elevator, two laundry rooms, a three-tier backyard and four bedrooms
Real Estate
House of the Week: $3.1 million for an Edwardian duplex in Little Portugal sitting on a massive commercial lot
The 3,800-square-foot property comes with Moroccan tiles, a meditation room, a backyard workshop and a tire swing
Real Estate
House of the Week: $3.7 million for a whimsical custom-built home backing onto an Etobicoke ravine
The 3,800-square-foot property comes with a sauna, a hot tub, cave-like walls and nature all over
Real Estate
House of the Week: $4.2 million for a new build by the Humber with a fireplace in a closet
The 3,900-square-foot property also comes with an elevator, a powder room with a swoosh sink and a playful blue laundry room