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I've never met a grape I didn't like... well, except one

By: Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson

Posted: 02/8/2008 2:15 PM | Comments: 0

I'm at home with a sniffly, teething baby today, and while she's sleeping I thought I'd jump on here and throw a question out for you to chew on.One question I get asked quite often is "What's your favourite wine?" My reply is usually pretty wishy-washy: I don't have a favourite, I like them all, it depends on the price/my mood/the temperature/what I'm eating, etc. These are all pretty much true, but my answer usually ends up being a bit of a conversation killer.I'm thinking about doing a column on my least favourite grape varietal. In June I was at a wine dinner in Calgary with a bunch of wine critics, and the question came up. We went around the table, and when I mentioned my least favourite wine grape, a lot of these critics frowned. I'll leave it at that for now, except to say it's a white wine grape and it's fairly popular right now.How about you - do you have a favourite wine? A favourite grape? Least favourite?Gotta go - I'm being beckoned...

Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson, Winnipeg Free Press

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About Ben MacPhee-Sigurdson

When he wasn't bashing on a drum kit in local punk rock bands, Ben spent the mid '90s hucking cases of wine around to pay for two English degrees. Now he's the Winnipeg Free Press wine columnist and blogger.

The extent of Ben's wine experience in the mid-90s was memories of accidentally leaving a bottle of White Zinfandel in the freezer overnight, and the ensuing mess he was left with. Between 1996 and 2005 Ben absorbed all he could about wine while working at wine shops to pay for school. Meanwhile, he was churning out papers for his BA and MA in English (from the Universities of Winnipeg and Manitoba, respectively).

Ben became the Winnipeg Free Press' weekly wine columnist in 2005, and two years later joined Wine Access magazine as a contributor, a member of their national tasting panel and a judge at the Canadian Wine Awards and International Value Wine Awards until the magazine closed up shop in 2013.

In 2013 Ben joined the Winnipeg Free Press as a copy/web editor.

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