No Recipe Required with Lesley Taylor Lesley Taylor

This is a companion episode to go along with my most recent Substack Newsletter on How To Choose A Wine. If you're a subscriber, that would have been in your inbox on Tuesday morning. It's free to subscribe and I write content about food, wine, cooking, baking, and home economics.



In the newsletter, I recommended four wines - all Cabernet Sauvignon - from four different regions. So I thought it would be a good follow-up to taste the wines and give you my reviews.



Here are the wines in the order I reviewed them:



Submission Cabernet Sauvignon, California, $19.95 (on sale for $17.95 at the LCBO until the end of April) 14.5% / 7g/L

Peter Lehmann The Barossan Cabernet Sauvignon 2022, South Australia, $20.95 14.5% 4g/L

Zuccardi Q Cabernet Sauvignon 2021, Mendoza, Argentina, $20.95 14% 3g/L

Santa Carolina Reserva de Familia Cabernet Sauvignon, Maipo Valley, Chile, $19.95.





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In this episode, Cousin Jano and I talk about our recent trip down to the Niagara region for a wine tour. We visited six wineries over two days, and on the second day we actually walked from one winery to the next, covering a total of about 11 kilometers!
We actually don't talk in much detail about the specific wines we drank, we focused more on the experience we had at each of the wineries. If you want to know what I bought while I was there, read my newsletter dated March 12.
Here are the wines that Cousin Jano purchased:
Hidden Bench, 2020 Rachis & Derma Skin Fermented Chardonnay, $30
Icellars 2017 Chardonnay, $40
Lailey 2022 Sparkling Rosé, $28
Stonebridge 2019 Chardonnay, $48
Two Sisters 2021 Riesling, $40
Two Sisters 2020 Unoaked Chardonnay, $40
Stratus 2006 White, $59
Stratus 2022 Riesling Ice Wine, $69 (375mL)

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In this episode I chat with Lisa Dickie of Dickie's Cooking School in the east end of Toronto. We talk about how she got started, the kinds of programs she offers, and also about our (mutual) philosophies around cooking with or without a recipe. She has a great handout on her website for pantry staples, and she recently shared a quick tip on Instagram for how to measure butter!
I also tease what's coming up in the newsletter on March 5 and March 12, so if you haven't already subscribed, I hope you will.

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This is a cross-over episode with content from my most recent Substack newsletter. If you're not already subscribed and following me there, here is the link.

The two Syrah/Shiraz wines I'm talking about in this episode are:

François Villard L'appel des Sereines Syrah 2020, Saint-Michel-sur-Rhône, France ($22.95 at the LCBO,) 13% ABV, 3g sugar/L.

Thompson Estate Four Chambers Shiraz 2021, Margaret River, Western Australia ($21.25 at the LCBO, on sale, regularly $24.95) 14.2% ABV, 3g sugar/L.

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