Georgian TBILVINO Wines 2025

 

TBILVINO WINES OF GEORGIA

Wine Tasting Event

June 17, 2025

The TBILVINO vineyard plots are located in the eastern part of Georgia, on a plane next to the Caucasian Mountains, in about two hours car ride from Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. The company is devoted to preserving the ancient wine-making tradition in tandem with modern innovations.

TBILVINO  wines have received a number of prestigious awards and medals at the following international wine completions:

Decanter World Wine Awards, London 2022

IWC 2024 London

The Montreal wine tasting event took place at the au vinhub and was presented by Aleksandre Margvelashvili, the TBILVINO’s Director. He conducted a very comprehensive guided tasting of their 6 exclusive, rare, flagship wines, each crafted with precision and deep respect for nature, reflecting the terroir-land and its authenticity. All were natural wines produced in line with the old wine-making traditions. The presentation was very informative and fascinating.

TBILVINO intends to bring a recognition for the Saperavi wines and will seek to establish for them an Internationally recognized Separavi Appellation, the same as many other wines have, like Bordeaux wines, for instance.

TBILVINO is seeking representatives in Quebec and Ontario for their premium collection. Right now, as a starting point, they are mainly aiming for the hospitality industry.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, visit the TBILVINO website.

This event was a comprehensive introduction to the high quality, unique Georgian wine. Six wines were tasted at the Montreal’s Wine tasting event: one white, one orange, and four red. They were all excellent and rare wines, each with a very unique and distinct personality. Here are each wines’ characteristics, in the order they were presented and tasted. They were all excellent wines! Click on images to enlarge them: 

For more information and to discover TBILVINO's unique approach and their way of life philosophy regarding the wine making, visit the TBILVINO website.

Vino Nobile di Montepulciano 2025

 

VINO NOBILE DI MONTEPULCIANO

MASTERCLASS & FREE TASTING

May 22, 2025

Both events - the masterclass and the free wine tasting - were held in Montreal at the Institut de tourisme et d'hôtellerie du Québec.

Vino Nobile di Montepulciano is a red wine produced by vineyards that surround the town of Montepulciano in Italy. The wine is made primarily from the Sangiovese grape viriety (minimum 70%) that is known locally as Prugnolo gentile. It is blended with Canaiolo Nero (10%–20%) and a small amounts of other local varieties of grapes. The wine is aged for 2 years, of that at least 1 year in oak barrels. And is aged for three years if it is a reserve wine (riserva).

Ten exclusive wines were offered for tasting during the Masterclass. They were all excellent wines and it was quite a task to choose the favourite. Each wine had a specific personality and created quite diverse reaction in one’s mouth. Very unique and very impressive wines.

Many more varieties of Vino Nobile di Montepulciano wines were offered at the free wine tasting event. This was an excellent event to get acquainted with the variety of exceptional wines from the Italian Montepulciano region.

The free wine tasting was generously accompanied with a great quality and quantity of Italian cold cuts and cheese tables at the back of the free wine tasting hall..

All photos in this article @Nadia Slejskova

Expo Manger Santé et Vivre Vert 2025

 

EXPO Manger Santé et Vivre Vert 2025

Montreal: 28th Edition

March 21 - 23, 2025

The Expo Manger Santé et Vivre Vert, the annual event that attracts great crowds of visitors every spring, is presently once again taking place at the Montreal's Palaise de congres. This year, the same as the last year, the major sponsor of this always eagerly awaited Expo is the Quebec organic grain company La Milanaise that is dedicated to be at the foreground of the organic cereal grain processing. The majority of their all organic grains are already grown in Quebec, with additional Quebec organic grain suppliers coming aboard.

La Milanaise is also providing to all the Expo visitors free shopping bags to buy and carry all the purchases they make.

Organic and health supporting and health building products are at the focus of this Expo. It offers many healthy foods and supplements and also natural and chemical free cosmetics and other life-style products. For instance, AQUA SANTÉ company offers water purification systems that are affordable and that remove water impurities, viruses, bacteria, and various chemical components. The sellers and promoters at the kiosk explain their functioning and benefits. You could also visit their website to find out more about the available water purification and drinking water enhancement systems.

The Expo Manger Santé et Vivre Vert's mission from its inception has been to promote healthy eating, the overall health, and to raise the awareness of the importance of the quality of food as it affects our lifestyles. It also primarily focuses on the environmental ecology, on the sustainability issues and the availability of the clean water and food, and on the pollutants free healthy living.

Mushroom products are also promoted at the Expo and in one of the kiosk the promoter is wearing a mushroom hat.

 

The natural cosmetics attract many visitors' interest.

The specialty foods that promote health are very popular and capture the everybody's attention, offering many tasting opportunity and also a buying possibility of the products one likes.

All photos @ Nadia Slejskova

Visit the Expo Manger Santé et Vivre Vert website for more information and opening hours.

Please note that this Expo attracts very large crowds.

Italian Wines 2024

 A Tasting of Wines from Italy

29th Edition

November 6, 2024

A TASTING OF WINES FROM ITALY is The Italian Trade Agency's flagship event connecting Italian wine producers and their agents with Canadian wine buyers.

This year, four venues were presented in Canada:

Vancouver, Monday October 28, 2024

Calgary, Wednesday October 30, 2024

Toronto, Monday, November 4, 2024

Montreal, Wednesday, November 6, 2024

The Montreal event, as always, was a great success. Huge crowds of professionals filled the very spaces 2 large hall premises of the Bonsecours Market n Old Montreal. This is an annual event hat has become a flagship commercial event for Canadian wine professionals. Montreal event was significant, well attended and appreciated by wine connoisseurs and professionals.

Close to 100 Italian producers took part in the walk-around tasting, coming from a number of Italian wine producing regions and with a great number of wine labels to showcase. This attracted huge crowds of specialists including agents, representatives of provincial monopolies, hotels and restaurants, specialized journalists, top sommeliers, commentators, and wine enthusiasts. This Montreal wine tasting even was a great success.

Here is a short photo reportage of the event:

True to the traditional Italian hospitality, food was also generously provided in great quantity and very much appreciated by al the attendees.

Click on Images to enlarge them.

All Photos @ Nadia Slejskova

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