As they used to call their writers in MAD magazine, and as I am apt to say on occasion at a tasting, when asked who else is in attendance, “just the usual gang of idiots”.  And they were out at this year’s media launch for the Gourmet Food and Wine Expo taking place in November (15-18) at the usual place, Metro Toronto Convention Centre; but while MAD used it as a joke I use as a term of affection to mean, “the gang’s all here”.  This year’s Gourmet launch brought us all together again to show off what is to come at the show this year.  This year’s focus is Chile, a country whose rise to wine-stardom has been on an upward trajectory for the past 5 years or more.  The launch had the wineries you’d recognize from the Chilean section of the LCBO:  Concha Y Toro, Casa Lapostolle, Errazuriz, Cousino-Macul and many others, who will be there flogging and tasting their wares in the heart of a city that loves its Chilean wines … (Read more)