It’s winery tour day in Essex, Kingsville and Harrow and the stretch between, to be fair, and I can’t wait.
I love fancy shit like that, as long as it’s not too fancy and formal.
I wanted to go to Paglione’s on my birthday last year and we ran out of time, so I’m excited.
This area is up-and-coming in wine, a historically good growing area and with climate change, one poised to make waves. French wine is still higher quality, sure, but there are some wineries doing truly inspired work around here (and up in Prince Edward County and Niagara – and out west in the Okanagan Valley).
Canadians never get credit for anything but maple syrup, poutine, curling and hockey, but damned if we aren’t among the best in the world at a whole bunch of other things, up to and including being goddamned nice.
We’re the Rodney Dangerfield of the Western world, if Rodney were actually just a really super nice guy who actually didn’t care whether he had that much respect.
Target: 1200 words
Written: 1172 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: Blackbirds, Chuck Wendig
Comics: Fathom: Blue 3-4, The Four Points 3-4
Music: Energy, Operation Ivy (amazing)