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Feature Article
Ontario (Provincial Appellation)
Shopping At The Zoo
The inspiration for wine names these days seems to be the jungle, paddock, forest or ocean rather than the vineyard.
by
Tony Aspler
February 7, 2005
I like to know where my wine comes from. I like to taste the soil in which the grapes were grown. But people like me are becoming dinosaurs as far as the wine marketers are concerned. Gone are the days, it seems, when a wine was simply named after the village or commune where it was produced (as they do in Europe) or by the grape variety from which it was made (New World regions).
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