After a lot of hard work we finally reached that milestone of lighting the first fire in our wood-fired oven last Saturday, July 24. Early May when we broke ground and were digging in very cold rain seems like such time ago now. I’ll be writing about more about what it took to get us [...]
Posts Tagged ‘wine’
A Week of Riesling
Last week a group of friends and wine lovers–many of whom Twitter about food or wine–gathered to sample some of Ontario’s best Riesling. We tasted ten bottles from Niagara plus two surprise outsiders. The identity of each wine was disguised during the tasting and at the end of the night a favourite and least favourite [...]
Ravine Deli and Bakery
It is getting to the point where a drunkenly thrown wine bottle in Niagara is bound to hit a winery producing very good wine. Outside of top-dollar places like Treadwell, Inn on the Twenty, Hillebrand, and Peller it is much more difficult to find good food. Happily, the people behind the Ravine Deli and Bakery [...]
