Essex Wine Review

Winemaker’s Notes:
More than your typical Chardonnay! This crisp wine carries a delightfully un-oaked citrus twist and finishes with mineral and fruity notes on the palate.

VQA Lake Erie North Shore

12.5% alc./vol.
Sugar Code: 0

Price: 750 mL $11.95

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Winemaker’s Notes:
This premium wine offer the quality you’d expect from a cool climate barrel aged Chardonnay. The subtle bouquet of the barrel offers toasted vanilla and butterscotch that marry perfectly with the mineral notes found in our Chardonnay. With a supple and smooth mouth feel this wine lingers on your palate in the most pleasant way, reminding you it’s time for another sip! Pair this wine with veal, salmon, pine nuts, and mint.

VQA Lake Erie North Shore

12.5% alc./vol.
Sugar Code: 0

Price: 750 mL $18.95

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Wine Maker’s Notes:
Our Barrique Chardonnay proves that those pioneers of winemaking knew that our climate produces an excellent, round, dry and very well balanced white wine. Fermented in French Barriques, our late harvested Chardonnay grapes produce wine that is toasty with distinctive vanilla flavours.

These grapes were harvested in late October when they had reached 21.6° brix. The juice was then clarified and placed in French Barriques, from the regions Allier, Nevers, and Troncais, for ten months Sur Lie.

Serve now through 2007, with light meats, seafood, and cheeses. A delicious compliment this wine would be to Lobster Newburg, or some fragrant Gruyere cheese.

2005 Barrique Chardonnay – VQA
GRAPES: 100% Chardonnay
BRIX: 21.6°
ALCOHOL: 12.5%
RESIDUAL SUGAR: 3.4 g/L
Sugar Code: (0)

Price: 750 mL $13.85

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