The ideal wine to spoil Mom on Mother’s Day. Straw coloured with an aromatic, spicy nose of lychees and rose petals, the wine is medium-bodied with an off-dry flavour of honeyed lychees. If Gewürztraminer doesn’t trip off your tongue, just call it Gewurz.

Food match: Thai dishes; coconut-breaded shrimp.

Malivoire Gewurztraminer 2012, VQA Ontario, $24.95 (Vintages #542522)

Post City Magazines’ wine columnist, Tony Aspler, has written 14 books on wine and food. Tony also created the Ontario Wine Awards and has been inducted into the New York Media Wine Writers’ Hall of Fame. He can be heard on 680News.