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John Cercone

John Cercone

Montreal radio personality and wine expert (sommelier), known on-air as John Cercone-Bromilow, a regular contributor on Virgin Radio Montreal and guest on TSN 690's The Morning Show.

Sep 4, 2026

16:38
How are you?
16:39
I'm great, man.
16:41
How can we not be good? It's great.
16:42
I love this weather.
16:44
Yeah? Weather? That's the thing? I don't know.
16:48
It's kind of nice and chilly, nice and cool.
16:49
It's good for the food.
17:22
So what are we drinking this weekend?
15:07
Um, is that true of wine as well?
15:10
So actually, I'm gonna change what you said and, and, and kind of, uh, not refine it, but what I think is that actually bubbles mask flavor.
15:20
So Red Bull in general is disgusting, but if you add bubbles to it, it's gonna kind of soften it.
15:27
So th- that, that's kind of what explains, like, flat Coke is the same thing, that in reality a flat Coke would be gross.
15:34
If you add bubbles, it softens it, so that's kind of like it just makes it a bit more palatable.
16:29
... bubbles.
16:30
Okay, so, uh, we're gonna start with the first ever sh- um, sparkling wine region.
16:35
So don't let Moët's advertising g- uh, like, campaign fool you.
20:18
Hmm.
20:19
So go and try it before you sample it.
20:21
Go pay $16 a glass for it before you buy a bottle at $22.
20:26
Sold! And then we have a wine from the Loire Valley.
20:31
I like these wines because they're kind of not rosés but not red, like right in the middle.
20:35
This is Un Sommon de la Loire.
20:38
It's like a blend of two grapes but looks like dark pink or light red wine.
21:34
zucchini so much.
18:30
Please.
18:30
Okay, if you believe in that stuff.
18:32
No, no, but the consensus is it exists.
18:33
We don't know if it's man-made yet.
18:35
That's the new one.
18:35
Okay.
18:36
Yeah.
19:59
And what about the red? The red is from a brewster called
17:30
long as the bubbles pop.
17:32
Between a $100 bottle of bubbles and something really good at $25.
17:37
I think the difference for the average consumer is minute.
17:42
So I have two delicious sparkling wines that aren't expensive.
17:45
So we're not going to go to Champagne because we're going to stay out of there.
17:48
Those wines are minimum $60.
17:49
We're going to go to Cava.
19:30
It
18:31
What are we drinking this
18:32
weekend? We're drinking great wines.
18:35
We're drinking some stuff we're maybe not used to, but it's great.
18:40
There's a white wine from the Penendez region of Spain.
18:43
I always love Spain for value.
18:46
And this is actually on special this weekend.
18:48
Stuma Roca 2V is the wine.
19:59
Okay.

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