Comments on: Pelee Island Meritage 2003 http://www.essexwinereview.com/2009/06/pelee-island-meritage-2003/ Reviewing 399 Wines From Lake Erie North Shore & Pelee Island Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:58:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: j mckenzie http://www.essexwinereview.com/2009/06/pelee-island-meritage-2003/#comment-632 j mckenzie Sun, 14 Aug 2011 05:43:35 +0000 http://www.essexwinereview.com/?p=758#comment-632 This is a blended marvel and surprising offering from Canadian viticulture. Nose like Barolo. Finish medium with no strong tannin. Old vine flavour and certainly unpretentious. Carve into a fleshy beef dinner with this bold 10 year old smooth and saucy specimen. If you don't like it, then reach for the fruity Australian stuff because this is something really different. Should be selling for double what they charge. Superb and 5 stars. J. This is a blended marvel and surprising offering from Canadian viticulture. Nose like Barolo. Finish medium with no strong tannin. Old vine flavour and certainly unpretentious. Carve into a fleshy beef dinner with this bold 10 year old smooth and saucy specimen. If you don’t like it, then reach for the fruity Australian stuff because this is something really different. Should be selling for double what they charge.

Superb and 5 stars.

J.

]]> By: Gary Killops http://www.essexwinereview.com/2009/06/pelee-island-meritage-2003/#comment-224 Gary Killops Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:12:27 +0000 http://www.essexwinereview.com/?p=758#comment-224 Excellent blended red wine. If you have this wine in your posession, now is a good time to open it and drink it as it is ready to be enjoyed. There are a lot of fruit notes along with some oak on the nose. This continues with the taste. The oak on the nose and taste doesn't dominte the wine, it just fits right in there just like it should. Well balanced I must say. While it is a blend of the "big reds" it doesn't have that taste or feel. It is smooth, not a lot of tannins or acidity to complicate this wine. Very nice finish that hangs in there for a little while. Priced at $25 keeps in in line with most other local Meritage blends. Pair this wine with a nice BBQ'ed steak or beef dinner. Head to Pelee Island Winery and buy this one. Excellent blended red wine.

If you have this wine in your posession, now is a good time to open it and drink it as it is ready to be enjoyed.

There are a lot of fruit notes along with some oak on the nose. This continues with the taste. The oak on the nose and taste doesn’t dominte the wine, it just fits right in there just like it should. Well balanced I must say.

While it is a blend of the “big reds” it doesn’t have that taste or feel. It is smooth, not a lot of tannins or acidity to complicate this wine. Very nice finish that hangs in there for a little while.

Priced at $25 keeps in in line with most other local Meritage blends.

Pair this wine with a nice BBQ’ed steak or beef dinner.

Head to Pelee Island Winery and buy this one.

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