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Food & Drink
Best 10 wines under $10
Value, not prestige, is the new watchword in the wine world. Here, 10 bottles under $10 that smash the stigma of cheap...
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Good to the Last Drop
After a two-year run, during which I have enjoyed being back in the role of weekly wine commentator, this will be the last post of...
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Rivers Run Through It: Vintages’ June 21 Release
The trumped-up theme for Vintages’ June 21 release is Europe’s Wine Rivers: Great Finds From Legendary Riverside...
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Niagara Auction Previews: The 2007 Reds
The colour was deep and the fruit was ripe among 10 Niagara reds showcased in the first public tasting of heavyweights from the...
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Ontario wine’s prime time
June has become the month for grand wine events in Ontario, timed to kick off the summer touring season. And this is sure to be a...
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The LCBO’s blockbuster $10 deals
After tasting virtually the entire LCBO general list in preparation for the annual Toronto Life Eating & Drinking guide, I know...
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Now is New Zealand’s moment
In Ontario, the momentum of New Zealand wines reaches a crescendo on May 24, when Vintages releases 28 labels from the Pacific’s...
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Blooming Whites
If you have never dedicated your wine budget to exploring the world’s aromatic whites, I suggest that now might be an opportune...
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Cheers to Santé
The 10th annual Santé: Toronto International Wine Festival kicks off Monday, May 5, with a week-long tasting menu of winemaker...
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California comes to Canada
The California Wine Fair rolls into the Fairmont Royal York Hotel on Monday, April 28, brimming with bottles that, by and...
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Nova Scotia’s New Eden
Nova Scotia might soon be a remarkable source of high-quality, expensive sparkling wine—the Champagne of North America. I spent...
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Vintages’ April 12 Release: The Top 10
Vintages stores will be releasing dozens of new wines this Saturday. I have been able to taste most of them in advance along with...
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The Great One Gets Better
When Wayne Gretzky launched his Niagara wines last summer, I was not impressed. Priced under $15, the wines were not awful but...
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California Greening
My column in the May issue of Toronto Life (on newsstands April 10) examines the burgeoning “green” wine movement, with...
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Matching with Malivoire
On a cold, snowy winter day (what else is new?) recently, I attended a wine tasting designed to be enjoyed as most of us actually...
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B.C.’s Osoyoos-Larose Mid-Term Report
Vintages’ March 15 release features 1,000 cases of the 2004 vintage of B.C.’s storied Osoyoos-Larose, the Franco-Canadian...
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The Best Fest in the West
I spent last weekend at the annual wine inundation known as Vancouver Playhouse Wine Festival—an event that locals and winery...
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Sweeping the pinot noir minefield
Every article I have ever read about pinot noir has noted that this is a grape that disappoints as often as it thrills—that it...
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Cabernet: Antidote to February
Cabernet sauvignon can do one job better than most wines: lift your spirits. And if Family Day didn’t quite cut it during this...
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Legendary Henschke wines are coming to the LCBO
In most winemaking nations, there are a handful of family-run wineries that have risen to the summit of success based on...
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Prince Edward County bubbly is born
A couple of milestones were celebrated during last Friday’s snowstorm, with the pop of a single cork at Huff Estate Winery in...
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Surprising Australians in Vintages’ new release
The upcoming March issue of Toronto Life (on newsstands February 7th) contains reviews of 10 wines from Vintages’ February 2nd...
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A Glimpse at the Bordeaux 2005s
Four hundred and fifty people jammed a Four Seasons Hotel ballroom Wednesday night (January 22) for a rare home-turf tasting of...
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Argentina’s Value Reds
On Saturday, January 19th, Vintages will release 20 new Argentine reds, with all but one priced between $13 and $20. The exception...
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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
Deep Dives
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