Essex Wine Review

Winemaker’s Notes:
Pinot Noir’s flavours are reminiscent of sweet red berries, plums, tomatoes and cherries.

Food Recommendations:
It is well-suited to pair with poultry, beef, fish, ham, lamb and pork. This wine will play well with creamy sauces, spicy seasonings and may just be one of the world’s most versatile food wines.

Grape Composition:
100% Pinot Noir

Alcohol: 13 %

VQA Pelee Island
13% Alc./vol.

Price: $14.95

Rate and review Pelee Island Winery Alvar Pinot Noir 2011

Winemaker’s Notes:
None available

VQA Ontario
12.5% alc./vol.

Price: 750 mL $14

Rate and Review Aleksander Estate Riesling 2011

Winemaker’s Notes:
None available

VQA Ontario
12.5% alc./vol.

Price: 750 mL $14

Rate and review Aleksander Estate Cabernet Franc 2011

Colchester Ridge Estate Winery (CREW)

Winemaker’s Notes:
This delicious well balanced blend offers aromas of Chocolate truffles, cherry pipe tobacco and rose water. The full mouth feel and well managed tannins glide across the palate with flavours of plum preserves, cocoa, and vanilla spice. Barrel aged 4 years. This extraordinary wine should be decanted before serving.

AGEABLILITY: 7-10 years.

Pairs well with red meats and most savory dishes and will complement Asian inspired cuisine.

VQA Lake Erie North Shore
14.5% alc./vol.

Small lot of 105 cases
Price: 750 mL – $50.00

Rate and review GRAND CREW Cabernet Sauvignon / Merlot 2008

Winemaker’s Notes:
A light-bodied wine with a hint of sweetness balanced by a backbone of acidity. This wine exhibits citrus fruit on the nose, with a clean, crisp finish.

Light-bodied, off-dry, white wine

Pairing: Salads, spicy foods, light and seafood, also excellent as a cocktail wine

Hand-harvested: October 24, 2011
Total Production: 220 cases

VQA Lake Erie North Shore
11.5% alc./vol.

Price: $16

Rate and review Muscedere Vineyards Riesling 2011

Winemaker’s Notes:
Coming off the most challenging season of the past seven vintages, the grapes for this wine were hand-harvested and meticulously sorted. Following fermentation in half ton bins with four daily punch downs this wine was aged in French oak barrels for twelve months.

Medium-bodied, dry red wine

Pairing: Pasta dishes, veal, grilled vegetables, chicken, turkey and ham dishes

Hand-harvested: October 24, 2011
Total Production: 333 cases

VQA Lake Erie North Shore
12.7% Alc./vol.

Price: $18

Rate and review Muscedere Vineyards Cabernet Franc 2011

Winemaker’s Notes:
Take three cool-climate grape varieties, a nearly perfect growing season in southwestern Ontario, add expert wine-crafting with a German accent and … Wowza! Excitement in a bottle.

NON VQA
12.5% alc./vol.

Price: $15.95

Rate and review Oxley Estate Wowza White 2012

Winemaker’s Notes:
75% Cabernet Sauvignon
25% Petit Verdot

Our Cabernet Sauvignon / Petit Verdot is medium bodied and dense with firm tannins and a wild cherry bouquet.

Vinedressers:
In 1891, Captain J.S. Hamilton, the president of Pelee Island Wine Company and J.S. Hamilton & Co., began construction of a three-story building with the stone being quarried from the island. Named the Wine House, it was located on five acres of land near the West dock on Pelee Island. The press was located on the third floor and the juice was channeled to the five thousand Litre oak casks in the cellar of the Wine House.

With Vin Villa Vineyards (1865) already well established, and along with the Wine House, the new century began with a strong winemaking spirit on the island.

VQA Pelee Island*
Label was printed with VQA Ontario in error
13% Alc./vol.

Price: $???

Rate and review Pelee Island Winery Vinedressers Cabernet Sauvignon Petit Verdot 2010

Winemaker’s Notes:
None available.

“Semi Sweet”

VQA Ontario
12.5% Alc./vol.

Price: $12.75

Rate and review Pelee Island Winery Island Time Merlot 2011

Aromas of nectarines, yellow apple and plum, with a gently floral note. Gently kissed by sweetness, this is ripe and quite attractive in the mouth. The palate is flavour-packed, far more so than the nose. A delightful wine, from a largely unknown grape. This will impress with a paprika spiced chicken, or pad Thai. (VINTAGES panel, Feb. 2013)

LCBO VINTAGES #327239

VQA Lake Erie North Shore
12.5% Alc./vol.

Price: 750 mL $14.95

Rate and review Viewpointe Auxerrois 2011