Find Santa Margherita wines? There’s an app for that!

December 6th, 2011 Category Tips

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Santa Margherita wines are available across Canada yet each province varies in selection and availability. Our Pinot Grigio is usually pretty easy to find but some of our other wines may or may not be available where you live. Occasionally, we release special wines or bottle sizes for a limited time only. Then of course there’s the matter of stock. It’s disappointing to visit your usual store and discover they’ve run out of the wine you want. Wouldn’t it be great to know where to find the wine you’re looking before you leave home? Well, if you have a mobile phone, you can.

There are several mobile phone wine apps that can help you find your wine. Here are links to a few popular ones.

Natalie MacLean Wine Picks & Pairings
VinGo 
BC Liquor Stores
LCBO On The Go
SAQ 

Have a wine app that works for you? Let us know in the comments.

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Overwhelming Support for AIDS Walk Campaign

October 18th, 2011 Category AIDS Walk

Response to our Scotiabank AIDS Walk for Life donation campaign this year was outstanding. We are pleased to report that purchases of our products during the campaign period enabled us to give $68,000 to help Canadians living with HIV/AIDS. That’s $8,000 more than last year. Our Walk team raised close to $8,500 more. Another $6,800 was contributed to the Farha Foundation ÇA MARCHE in Quebec.

In each of the 5 years we have sponsored the AIDS Walk, one of our primary objectives has been to spread the word concerning the need to help Canadians living with HIV/AIDS. The support we received through social media amplified our efforts considerably. There can be no doubt that the actions of our community to share the message had great impact.

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Ready, Set, Walk

September 22nd, 2011 Category AIDS Walk

In addition to our donation campaign, Team Santa Margherita has participated in the Scotiabank AIDS Walk for Life for the past 4 years and raised even more money to support Canadians living with HIV/AIDS. We’re back for 2011. Many of you want to do more to contribute to this crucial fundraising event. You can by supporting our AIDS Walk team here. Your generosity will make a difference in someone’s life.

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Like Santa Margherita Canada on Facebook

September 1st, 2011 Category AIDS Walk

Can we do more to spread the word about the Scotiabank AIDS Walk for Life and improve the lives of Canadians living with HIV/AIDS? Yes!

In addition to the 50¢/bottle of Pinot Grigio we’re currently donating, we’ll also donate 50¢ for each “like” of our Facebook page until September 25, 2011 for up to 4,000 fans. Tell your friends.

 

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Scotiabank AIDS Walk for Life – 2011 Campaign Update

August 10th, 2011 Category AIDS Walk

Santa Margherita’s Walk Us Through This campaign in support of the Scotiabank AIDS Walk for Life is ending soon in some provinces. 50¢ from each sale of Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio gets donated. Proceeds benefit Canadians living with HIV/AIDS. Please note the following dates.

Aug. 13 – Last day Nova Scotia and Ontario.
Aug. 14 – Last day Manitoba.
Aug. 14 – Starts in Saskatchewan.
Aug. 26 – Starts in Alberta.
Sept. 1 – Starts in British Columbia

Please share and support.

 

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Choose To Help

July 29th, 2011 Category AIDS Walk

Right now, during our Walk Us Through This campaign, when you choose Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio, you choose more than a bottle of wine. You choose to support a cause that many have forgotten. You choose to support a cause lost in a rainbow of coloured ribbons. You choose to support up to 68,000 Canadians living with HIV/AIDS.

50¢ from each sale of our Pinot Grigio is being donated to the Scotiabank AIDS Walk for Life. Proceeds help provide housing, food, medication, counselling and other support to Canadians living with HIV/AIDS, while providing prevention and education to at-risk groups. That’s the impact of your choice. Choose to help.

 

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Our Walk Us Through This Donation Program Starts Now!

July 17th, 2011 Category AIDS Walk, News

The Santa Margherita Walk Us Through This campaign has begun. 50¢ from each sale of Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio will be donated to the Scotiabank AIDS Walk for Life to support people living with HIV/AIDS.

Here are the dates by province:
Alta: Aug. 26 to Sept. 22
BC: Sept. 1 to 26
Man: July 18 to Aug. 14
NS: July 17 to Aug. 13
Ont: July 17 to Aug. 13
Sask: Aug. 14 to Sept. 10

In Quebec, 50¢ from each sale of our Pinot Grigio will be donated to the Farha Foundation’s ÇA MARCHE from July 17 to Aug. 13

You can help us help more. Spread the word.

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2011 Scotiabank AIDS Walk for Life

June 13th, 2011 Category AIDS Walk

In 2010 we received the Corporate Leadership Award from the Canadian Aids Society. It is an honour we are extremely proud of.

With leadership comes responsibility. You don’t stop leading. We received this recognition for our efforts to improve the lives of Canadians living with HIV/AIDS. This work is not complete. This disease still haunts us. In 2011 we return to lead with even greater vigour. We hope you will support us once again.

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Santa Margherita Wins the 2011 International Vinitaly Prize

May 6th, 2011 Category News

The coveted Vinitaly Award is Considered One of Oenology’s Most Prestigious


Santa Margherita is the recipient of this year’s International Vinitaly Award 2011 for its excellence in world wine production and in furthering the “culture” of wine internationally.

The International Vinitaly Award, established in 1996, is one of the oenology’s most prestigious honours and is awarded each year at Italy’s largest exhibition at Vinitaly, Verona’s annual wine trade fair, which is considered to be one the world’s premier wine exhibition.

In presenting the award, President Ettore Riello and Director General Giovanni Mantovani, both of whom are with VeronaFiere (the Verona Fair), cited Santa Margherita as instrumental in forging Italy’s reputation as one of the finest wine producing countries in the world.

“In the long history of Italian wine, there is one company that has always been able to predict epic commercial changes well in advance,” they said in a joint statement. (more…)

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Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio celebrates its 50th Anniversary

April 29th, 2011 Category News, Pinot Grigio

The 2010 vintage of Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio marks the 50th anniversary of the wines creation. In 1961, Santa Margherita’s winemaker had the inspired idea of applying traditional white wine vinification techniques to the pink-hued Pinot Grigio grapes of Trentino Alto Adige. Immediately separating the skins from the fruit in the pressing phase prevented them from yielding the (until then) classic rusty color. This process created an innovative white wine which, with its characteristics of a fresh, fragrant bouquet and versatile taste, represented a real revolution in wine production.

Introduced in Canada in the early 1980s, Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio’s popularity has grown to make it the top selling Italian premium white wine with an average of 900,000 bottles enjoyed each year. Its success is due to the wine’s food-friendly versatility, affordability and unique combination of intensity and freshness.

To mark this 50th Anniversary occasion, a special celebratory logo adorns the Pinot Grigio bottle’s gold capsule. Look for the special Anniversary Edition of this historic 2010 vintage at your liquor store soon and enjoy while supplies last.

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