Essex Wine Review

Winemaker’s Notes:
A gift for the sweet tooth! Soft, sweet Lechee fruit complements a background peach of peaches. Very enjoyable sweet wine that stays light and fresh in the mouth.

VQA Ontario

Released On: July 23rd, 2011
Category: Light Bodied, Semi-Sweet White Wine
Sugar: 2
Serve At: 12°C (53.6°F)

Price: 375 mL $12.95

Rate and review Sprucewood Shores Select Late Harvest Vidal 2010

Winemaker’s Notes:
I really don’t think I have ever visited Sanson Estate without someone coming in during my time there and buying a couple of bottles of this wine. It seems to be a staple for Essex County locals.

Vidal is actually a hybrid grape that was designed to survive Canada’s inclement winters but it found a niche as icewine – actually celebrating those same cold months. Harvested a little late in the fall, after the fruit has had time to accumulate extra ripeness this wine shows round, honeyed aromas of pineapple and peach that carry to a soft, round, full palate. It’s simply an easy-to-drink, slightly off-dry, unoaked wine that is great on its own or will compliment a surprising range of foods – anything from pan-fried fish to roast fowl to spicy. The packaging for the 2008 has changed – the old cork has been replaced with a new a new Stelvin cap closure.

Non VQA
11.5 alc./vol.

Price: 750 mL $12.95

Rate and review Sanson Autumn Harvest Vidal 2008.

Winemaker’s Notes:
Back by popular demand, our late harvest vidal

VQA Ontario
10.5% alc./vol.

Price: 750 mL $12

Rate and review Smith & Wilson Wilson’s Vidal 2009

Winemaker’s Notes:
I really don’t think I have ever visited Sanson Estate without someone coming in during my time there and buying a couple of bottles of this wine. It seems to be a staple for Essex County locals. Vidal is actually a hybrid grape that was designed to survive Canada’s inclement winters but it found a niche as icewine – actually celebrating those same cold months. Harvested a little late in the fall, after the fruit has had time to accumulate extra ripeness this wine shows round, honeyed aromas of pineapple and peach that carry to a soft, round, full palate. It’s simply an easy-to-drink, slightly off-dry, un oaked wine that is great on its own or will compliment a surprising range of foods – anything from pan-fried fish to roast fowl to spicy Asian cuisine… or just enjoy a glass on its own.

VQA Ontario
12% alc./vol.

Price: 750 mL $12.95

Rate and review Sanson Late Harvest Vidal 2007.