As my regular readers know, March was supposed to be Canada’s month in the CorkPopper Project. With all the great things I’ve read and heard about Canada’s wines these days, I assumed I’d have no problem finding twelve Canadian wines to enjoy and review this month. Unfortunately, I was wrong. Sadly, despite quite a bit of recent good press about the quality wines being produced in British Columbia and Southern Ontario, it is still extremely difficult for an American consumer to purchase anything but icewine from Canada without actually making a trip across the border. And although Canadian icewine has its fans, it is neither my cup of tea (or wine) nor within the CorkPopper budget.
I did manage to find one website that sells and ships Canadian wines to the United States, but I was not willing to randomly select twelve wines and just hope that they were decent. As a compromise, I ordered four – a Semillon, a Pinot Gris, a Pinot Noir and a red blend – produced by four different wineries that were recently honored at the Canadian Wine Awards. As Murphy’s Law would have it, however, the retailer apparently has some inventory issues, and I have neither received my wines yet nor been informed as to which wines they will even be able to ship to me.
Depending on how this all plays out, then, Canada may not make it into the CorkPopper project at all. Of course, in many ways it is pretty amazing that this is the first real speed bump the CorkPopper Project has encountered. In the meantime, I will be doing my best to post on things other than the CorkPopper Project this month (e.g., I’ve been promising a post about wine tasting in Buenos Aires ever since January, and have been to a few wine/food events recently that are definitely worth writing about). And on an even more exciting note, CorkPopper has been getting a behind-the-scenes face lift. Stay tuned for the big reveal, which should happen in the next week or so!
Cheers!!
