{"id":23354,"date":"2015-05-10T07:45:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T11:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/?p=23354"},"modified":"2022-08-13T19:11:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T23:11:41","slug":"best-lcbo-wine-reviews-vintages-may-16-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/best-lcbo-wine-reviews-vintages-may-16-ratings\/","title":{"rendered":"Best LCBO Wine Reviews: Vintages May 16 Ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56917\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BottleLineupVintagesMedium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BottleLineupVintagesMedium.jpg 415w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BottleLineupVintagesMedium-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can access the 100 wines that I reviewed for May 16 as a text <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/winepicks\/winepicks_print.aspx?batch=3e5fd6be272857856818259dce8d4121&amp;store=\"><strong>wine list<\/strong><\/a><\/span> with my complete tasting notes, scores, food matches.<\/p>\n<p>You can also see my wine reviews for <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/best-lcbo-wine-reviews-vintages-may-2-ratings\/\">May 2, 2015<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/joinus\/\"><strong>Paid Member<\/strong><\/a>, you can add my wine picks to your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/mywinelists\/\"><strong>custom shopping list<\/strong><\/a> with one click and access that list on your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/mobileapp\/\"><strong>smartphone<\/strong><\/a> to find the stock for each wine in your closest LCBO store.<\/p>\n<p>These are just some of the benefits of supporting out wine community as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/joinus\/\"><strong>Paid Member<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Inventory stock numbers are usually posted online a day or two before the release based on the LCBO doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Curious about what my scores mean or my tasting process? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wine-reviews-scores-and-tasting-notes\/\"><strong>Find out here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my tasting notes published in the Vintages Catalogue, the most quoted Canadian source of wine reviews and ratings:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Simonsig-Kaapse-Vonkel-Brut.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23358\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Simonsig-Kaapse-Vonkel-Brut.jpg\" alt=\"Simonsig Kaapse Vonkel Brut\" width=\"531\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Simonsig-Kaapse-Vonkel-Brut.jpg 531w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Simonsig-Kaapse-Vonkel-Brut-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Featherstone-Black-Sheep.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23359\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Featherstone-Black-Sheep.jpg\" alt=\"Featherstone Black Sheep\" width=\"503\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Featherstone-Black-Sheep.jpg 503w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Featherstone-Black-Sheep-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/May-16-2015-Jim-Barry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23432\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/May-16-2015-Jim-Barry.jpg\" alt=\"May 16 2015 Jim Barry\" width=\"620\" height=\"735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/May-16-2015-Jim-Barry.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/May-16-2015-Jim-Barry-253x300.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Jim-Barry-The-Copver-Drive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23413\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Jim-Barry-The-Copver-Drive.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Barry The Copver Drive\" width=\"441\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Jim-Barry-The-Copver-Drive.jpg 441w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Jim-Barry-The-Copver-Drive-300x283.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Tawse-Growers-Blend1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23415\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Tawse-Growers-Blend1.jpg\" alt=\"Tawse Growers Blend\" width=\"528\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Tawse-Growers-Blend1.jpg 528w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Tawse-Growers-Blend1-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lapostolle-Cab-Sauv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23416\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lapostolle-Cab-Sauv.jpg\" alt=\"Lapostolle Cab Sauv\" width=\"454\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lapostolle-Cab-Sauv.jpg 454w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Lapostolle-Cab-Sauv-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Rustenberg-Chardonnay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23417\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Rustenberg-Chardonnay.jpg\" alt=\"Rustenberg Chardonnay\" width=\"529\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Rustenberg-Chardonnay.jpg 529w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Rustenberg-Chardonnay-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Chateau-Bellevue-Rose.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23418\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Chateau-Bellevue-Rose.jpg\" alt=\"Chateau Bellevue Rose\" width=\"524\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Chateau-Bellevue-Rose.jpg 524w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Chateau-Bellevue-Rose-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Chateau-La-Tour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23421\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Chateau-La-Tour.jpg\" alt=\"Chateau La Tour\" width=\"452\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Chateau-La-Tour.jpg 452w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Chateau-La-Tour-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Tiefenbrunner-Pinot-grigio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23420\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Tiefenbrunner-Pinot-grigio.jpg\" alt=\"Tiefenbrunner Pinot grigio\" width=\"478\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Tiefenbrunner-Pinot-grigio.jpg 478w, https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Tiefenbrunner-Pinot-grigio-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a>Posted with permission of the LCBO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; You can access the 100 wines that I reviewed for May 16 as a text wine list with my complete tasting notes, scores, food matches. You can also see my wine reviews for May 2, 2015. If you are a Paid Member, you can add my wine picks to your custom shopping list with one click and access that list on your smartphone to find the stock for each wine in your closest LCBO store. These are just some of the benefits of supporting out wine community as a Paid Member. Inventory stock numbers are usually posted online a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,208,51,62,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-wines","category-lcbo-sale-wines","category-lcbo-wine-sale","category-lcbo-vintages-release","category-lcbo-wine-buying-list"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23354"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57000,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23354\/revisions\/57000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliemaclean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}