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”
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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: Closson Chase 2021 Vineyard Chardonnay
In Ontario, Canada it is Niagara that garners most of the attention of its liquor monopoly the Liquor Control Board of Ontario in chatter and on its retail shelves. But head east of Toronto about the same distance Niagara is west of Toronto and you arrive at yet another wine district Prince Edward County orContinue reading “RKS 2025 Canadian Wine: Closson Chase 2021 Vineyard Chardonnay”
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: 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”
RKS 2024 Wine: Vineland Estates 2021 Game Changer Red
A bold statement indeed to maintain any wine these days can change the game. More marketing fluff but as I have said many times a label really makes little difference as what matters is in the bottle. For example, this year the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team has changed professional baseball in Toronto to aContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Vineland Estates 2021 Game Changer Red”
RKS 2024 Wine: Featherstone 2020 Onyx from Niagara
33% Merlot. 33% Cabernet Franc. 33% Cabernet Sauvignon. Cabernet Franc thrives in Ontario and almost always makes wines that do not disappoint. Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon are most often mundane but when judiciously oaked can shine. Each varietal was individually fermented. The Merlot was fermented and aged in French oak barrels. The Cabernets were fermentedContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Featherstone 2020 Onyx from Niagara”
RKS 2023 Wine: 2018 Barrel Aged Chardonnay from Niagara’s Locust Lane: Escaping the Plague of Over Oaked Chards
Locusts and agriculture do not mix. The last thing winemakers in the Niagara region of Ontario want are swarms of locusts devouring their grapes. God may have been angry with Egypt but with Niagara, Ontario? Bad enough they have to deal with swarms of grape loving birds and waterlogged peaches! Is my negative focused mindContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: 2018 Barrel Aged Chardonnay from Niagara’s Locust Lane: Escaping the Plague of Over Oaked Chards”
RKS 2023 Wine: The Man with the Big Head Releases Big Head Red # 8
The Big Red at Big Head Wines, about 15 minutes from St Davids, Ontario (on 823 Line 6 Road) in the Niagara-on-the-Lake region was sold out of Big Red # 7 when I last visited the winery in November 2022 but they had a half bottle left and poured a glass for me. It leftContinue reading “RKS 2023 Wine: The Man with the Big Head Releases Big Head Red # 8”
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