As for price and quality Featherstone Estate Winery consistently delivers gems! This wine is a Cabernet Franc and Merlot blend. Aroma: Black cherry, blackberry, cocoa, raspberry, lavender and plum. Palate: Plummy with dark fruit. It is on the after palate that the fruit and tannin makes a more forceful appearance with heavy duty blackberry, friskyContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Featherstone’s Gemstone”
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RKS 2025 Canadian Wine: Cooper’s Hawk Talon Red
I have been a fan of wines from the Lake Erie North Shore (LENS) appellation in Ontario for quite some time. I go back so far I remember the first wine from Cooper’s Hawk I reviewed was a Chardonnay and these guys were so new it wasn’t even VQA. Then fame crept up on LENSContinue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Wine: Cooper’s Hawk Talon Red”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Hinterbrook’s Nomad 22 Wanderlust
Not able to join the gang for the Cake Parade on 1July2025 at Niagara-on-the-Lake due to recovery from hernia surgery I could alleviate my misery and the need for extensive walking by driving along Lakeshore Road where I discovered an extremely quiet Hinterbrook Estate Winery. After all it was Canada Day and who wants toContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Hinterbrook’s Nomad 22 Wanderlust”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Wending Home’s A Little Bit of This a Little Bit of That
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. AContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Wending Home’s A Little Bit of This a Little Bit of That”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Always Hope for Ontario Cabernet Sauvignon? Not This Time with Reif!
In Ontario Cabernet Franc fares at a very high level in comparison to its Cabernet Sauvignon. The secret for Ontario Cabernet Sauvignon would appear to be a heavy compliment of oak to impart more “character”. Oak has garnered a dirty name in much of the wine world perhaps a throwback to earlier days when excessiveContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Always Hope for Ontario Cabernet Sauvignon? Not This Time with Reif!”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: 2021 Nomad Fumé Blanc From Niagara, Ontario
Aroma: Lemon, lime, guava, peach, pineapple and mango. Wow this has lots going on! Palate: Despite all the fruitish bouquet activity there is a certain austerity on the palate and despite 12 months ageing in oak it has a clean stainless-steel backbone, or least that is the way it presents itself. Try and try youContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: 2021 Nomad Fumé Blanc From Niagara, Ontario”
RKS 2025 Canadian Wine: A Red Assemblage from Ferox Estate Winery in Niagara, Ontario
A blend of Zweigelt (53%), Merlot (18%), Syrah (15%), Malbec (8%) and Cabernet Franc (6%) from 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. Each component was aged in neutral French oak barriques (225L) for a minimum of 2 years before élevage, assemblage, filtration and bottling. Aroma: Black cherry, blackberry, blueberry and cassis all rather dense and heady.Continue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Wine: A Red Assemblage from Ferox Estate Winery in Niagara, Ontario”
RKS 2025 Canadian Wine: Wending Home Syrah-Merlot
If you are going to “make it” with Syrah and Merlot in Ontario generous oak treatment and pristine quality grapes are required. This is a single vineyard dual variety wine that has spent thirty months in used French oak. 50% each of Syrah and Merlot. Aroma: Definite Merlot on the nose not lush and plushContinue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Wine: Wending Home Syrah-Merlot”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Leaning Post Cuvée Winona
There are glitzy and glorious wineries in Niagara, Ontario looking more akin to castles and grand estates than a down-home winery where wine is the only show in town and no $36 truffle pizza is available. Leaning Post is one of those down-home wineries where great wine is about the only game going on. WeContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Leaning Post Cuvée Winona”
RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Peller Estates Private Reserve 2021 Meritage
From the Niagara region in Ontario, Canada we try a Peller Estates Private Reserve 2021 Meritage a blend of Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Aroma: Black cherry, blackberry, cassis with a strong black currant swirl. Palate: The black currant continues to express itself as the predominant influence. Grippy tannins. Short brackish finish. Personality: Big,Continue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Wine: Peller Estates Private Reserve 2021 Meritage”
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