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Free space for text. Copy space There’s nothing quite like autumn festival season — from hearty fall suppers to Oktoberfest celebrations to Thin Air 2024 (Winnipeg’s annual literary love-in), to the Winnipeg Wine Festival, which returns to its fall slot this weekend, there’s a bumper crop of things going on. But as the guy who wears both the literary editor and drinks writer hats for the , it can all seem a bit overwhelming and prove to be a bit overwhelming.
The plan for this week was to write about the Winnipeg Wine Festival’s theme region, but said theme is “Wines of Europe,” which would be akin to asking me to write an article (with my literary editor hat on) about “books in English.” Whole books have been written about specific wine countries, regions and even single producers — there’s no way I could do such a wide-ranging and important part of the winemaking world justice. Instead, here are reviews of a half-dozen wines I’ve recently tasted and enjoyed — some falling under the “Wines of Europe” umbrella (Italy in particular), others coming from new world wine-producing countries.
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