Great Value Wines

from Culinaire #9.7 (January-February 2021)

The Search For Calgary’s Best Fish & Chips

Wines That Are Easy on The Wallet

Once again, we’ve rung in a new year; we’ve cast away the old one and look forward (hopefully) to the year ahead – bright eyed and bushy tailed…right?

While you may be contemplating a

“dry January” or at least cutting back, and hats off to you, some of us might still need to unwind occasionally, perhaps after an Codorniu Brut Clasico Penedes, Spain CSPC +503490 $15-17 Honoro Vera 2018 Rioja Rioja, Spain CSPC +796836 $20-22 Hahn 2018 Chardonnay Monterey. United States CSPC +743983 $16-18 Wirra Wirra Scrubby Rise 2017 Shiraz McLaren Vale, Australia CSPC +19935 $18-20

BY TOM FIRTH

awesome snow day, or you might be have a little dinner planned (most likely smaller than usual) here and there.

The wines below, are drawn from the 2020 edition of our Alberta Beverage Awards, judged blind by a bevy (see what I did there?) of our expert judges, and determined to represent excellent value Animus 2017 Douro Douro, Portugal CSPC +752752 $15-18 Wente 2017 Sandstone Merlot Livermore Valley, United States CSPC +171025 $16-18 Bollini 2019 Pinot Grigio Rosato Dolomiti, Italy CSPC +815924 $21-23 Glen Carlou 2016 Grand Classique Paarl, South Africa CSPC +153882 $22-24 Les Vins Bonhomme 2018 El Petit post-competition (our judges don’t know what each product is, including the price, region, or producer).

Our Top Values are exactly that, wines that deliver, at a great price.

The complete results, with our judges, can be found online at

culinairemagazine.ca/aba-results-2020 Trapiche 2018 Reserve Malbec Mendoza, Argentina