Now there’s a world class wine in our world class town.

Now there’s a world class wine in our world class town.

Pinot Noir is a serious stage actress. Cabernet Sauvignon is a Hollywood goddess. Malbec is a hardcore porn star. The World Wine Awards. They were the brainchild of the excellent Canadian website Wine Align. For the last two years, about 20 wine experts have been...
I’ve stopped whining. Chianti has finally come to San Miguel.

I’ve stopped whining. Chianti has finally come to San Miguel.

We didn’t give a wino’s whistle what was inside. We bought it for the fiasco, which is what the bottle inside the raffia basket that it came in was called. And how appropriate that this unusually shaped bottle wrapped in straw shares its name with a word...
Sweet Caroline. So good, so good, so good.

Sweet Caroline. So good, so good, so good.

And so cheap, so cheap, so cheap. Santa Carolina. It’s the largest family of wines you’ll find at Canada’s largest liquor store, conveniently…or perhaps that’s inconveniently…located just two blocks from Don Day’s Toronto...
San Miguel’s most loved dish has found a lovely new home.

San Miguel’s most loved dish has found a lovely new home.

Last March, I had the pleasure of helping to organize the San Miguel de Allende Readers Taste awards or SMARTs for short. We drank and ranked some cheap wines. La Frontera served up some fine food. And our guests filled in a lot of ballots. They chose Pizza Pig for...
The cabs I’m hailing these days.

The cabs I’m hailing these days.

“Darling, I don’t know if it’s me or the wine talking, but I think we should open another bottle of wine.” Don Day did take a year of economics in college. And, though he read a lot more Patti Smith than Adam Smith, he did understand the law of...