If by chance you are overly accustomed with single varietals perhaps you wish to try Wending Home’s Wending North a blend of 27% Ehrenfelser, 18% Auxerrois, 18% Pinot Gris, 16% Gewurztraminer and 5% Chardonnay. A dog’s breakfast or brilliance in a glass?
Aroma: Honeycrisp apple, cinnamon, guava, mango, pineapple, honey, marzipan and Abate pear. A minerality that reminds one of an Encruzado from the Dão of Portugal.
Palate: If there was such a thing as perfect acidity in a white wine you have it or should we refer to it as a very fine acidity? Solid. Juicy. Mouthwatering pear, apple sauce, lychee and buzzing minerality with a long almost hot finish.
Personality: Consider me immediately accessible and a friend to a hot summer day.
Food Match: This blend may be the perfect outdoor dining wine as a little bit of this and that may be the perfect diplomatic wine. Delicious thereby possibly pleasing to at least an overwhelming majority. Grilled chicken, pork, rabbit and lake fish preferably pickerel or bass with garlic, chives and white wine in foil.
Price: $25 CDN.
Cellarbility: To be retired after the 2025 Christmas turkey.
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine Rating: 91/100. Rick VanSickle 92.
(Wending Home, Wending North White Blend 2020, VQA Creek Shores, Niagara Peninsula, Wending Home Estate Vineyards and Winery, St. Catharines, Ontario, 750 ml, 13.1%).
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