Tony Aspler, the Wine Guy

Saturday, February 28^th: Our old friend Barry Brown came to visit for a couple of nights. Barry is the founding president of the Spanish Wine Society in Toronto and he brought along an impressive array of Spanish foods purchased at Spanish Pig, 77 Roncesvalles Avenue in Toronto – various pork products, cheese and canned fish, and some great wines from his cellar.

Canned Spanish fish

Wines from Barry Brown’s cellar

Sunday, March 1^st: I messaged Thomas Bachelder to see if we could drop by and taste some of his wines at the Bat Cave. Thomas, the generous soul, said, of course. He asked what we’d like to taste and I said Pinot so he lined up six 2023 single-vineyard Pinots – Bator, Lowrey, Wismer-Parke, Wild West End Wismer-Parke, Hanck and Ivy & Warren (Saunders). But we couldn’t leave without trying a couple of 2023 Chardonnays from neighbouring plots, Wismer-Foxcroft and Wismer-Wingfield. Continue reading →