3 Luxury Wines You Need to Buy from the LCBO

A recent email immediately caught my attention (to say the least). My jaw dropped to the floor and I thought for sure it had to be a phishing scam. A double 100-point Pauillac Bordeaux that Robert Parker describes as having “off-the-charts massiveness” and “simply remarkable to behold and experience” was available specially to me for 30% off retail with free shipping. Deal! Like most wine enthusiasts, I don’t have a huge budget for wine so if I can occasionally buy something special and save a few dollars, why not? Of course, it was too good to be true. Not a scam, it was a legitimate sales solicitation from an American supplier not available to me because I live in Ontario. Talk about quashing so much heightened expectations.

Instead of drowning in my own despair, as annoyed and disappointed as I felt, I instead turned to the March 6 wine index analysis to find the top-rated luxury wines available to buy at the LCBO. The mission at Executive Spirits & Wines is to sort through all the noise and use an objective and brand-agnostic analysis to narrow down the selections and help eliminate paradox of choice. In the dozens of magazines we study each week, the thousands of wines reviews and countless winery sales emails, we curate the most interesting and intelligent wines that are actually in stock in Ontario and available to you. Quantities and locations are limited but if you feel like splurging, or stocking up really early on holiday gifts, here are three strong recommendations.

The first suggestion, a Brunello from Tuscany, received the highest average score of 94.0 and is in plenty supply across Ontario cities, including a few bottles in London’s LCBO at Oxford and Wonderland. Wine descriptions are courtesy of the LCBO website.