On the blogby Alfred
The return of Greek wines
Not so long ago, ordering Greek wine in Quebec was a risky proposition. Fortunately, the situation is changing rapidly for the better … much better.
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This week’s precious wine tips ( June 16)
This week, our wine tips offer a remarkable champagne to celebrate Father’s Day, a great Australian and the latest from Stephan Asseo, this winemaker who dared, with great success, to grow Rhône Valley wine grapes in California. All these choices come from the latest arrivals of the SAQ.
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Portrait of one of our sommeliers-partners : Bertrand Eichel, the Alsatian…
This week, we introduce you to Bertrand Eichel, another of our Alfred partners-sommeliers, currently offering the sommelier training at the École des métiers de la restauration et du tourisme de Montréal, after 10 years as head-sommelier of the famous private club 357C.
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This week’s precious wine tips ( June 9th)
This week, our wine tips will make you travel from the South of France to the South of Australia, through the very green Veneto. You will discover, among the most recent arrivals from the SAQ, a wine from Roussillon considered a fabulous value for money as well as an Amarone that is perfect for aging and an exceptional Shiraz.
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Hail storms : will there be a 2016 Chablis?
Will the recent hail storms in Chablis affect the 2016 vintage? It is still too early to tell.
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Portrait of one of our sommeliers-partners : Audrey Bouchard, the townshipper…
Our sommeliers-partners are essential to the Alfred ecosystem, they bring the human touch to our application and allow us to offer a uniquely personalized service. Here is the portrait of one of them, Audrey Bouchard, a native of the Eastern Townships.
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This week’s precious wine tips ( June 2nd)
Lobster season is in full swing and this week we’ve offer you an Alsatian Pinot Blanc accompanying it wonderfully. We were also attracted by an exceptional Beaujolais and a great Barolo. These wines are all part of recent arrivals from the SAQ and are available online and in Signatures branches.
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This week’s precious wine tips (May 26)
Rosé weather is finally upon us. This week, to drink in the sun, we present you a fine and round Sancerre which will fare well with both your gourmet dishes and what you cook on the barbecue. We also bring you from the most recent SAQ arrivals, an exceptional Rioja and a spectacular Tuscan “vin de garde”.
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THIS WEEK’S PRECIOUS WINE TIPS (May 19)
This week, a greek wine that evokes a chablis, a great wine for aging and an astonishing natural sweet white wine that does not show its age.
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THIS WEEK’S PRECIOUS WINE TIPS
This week’s (May 13, 2016) precious wine advice from Steven Molloy, sommelier.
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Professional sommeliers and algorithms : the crucial axis of the Alfred platform.
When developing a project as innovative as Alfred, the first thing one must validate within the target market, is the presence of either a real need, a problem to solve or both. Realizing that tens of thousands of Quebec fans have built a major reserve of wines and that many of them have twice the number of bottles that they could drink in the coming years, we have a clear and solvable problem; more so, it is clear that, for any recent wine lover, it is complicated to acquire mature wines and that he will probably have to wait up to 15 years before he can enjoy the great wines he bought in the stores.
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Giuseppe Quintarelli, the wonderful case of a business succession in the wine world!
For close to 21 years, I have been involved with an organization that brings together over 1,800 business leaders from Quebec, Belgium and Switzerland. The high level organization, Le groupement des chefs d’entreprise, wants to create links between entrepreneurs while enabling them to learn from their peers.
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