Essex Wine Review

Winemaker’s Notes:
Our Lighthouse Riesling has a fragrant orchard fresh aroma with a delicate peach bouquet. With a sugar code of (2) it is a refreshing sweeter white wine.

The balance of acidity and residual sugar give this Riesling a good balance with a long aging potential. With a fragrant orchard fresh aroma and a delicate peach bouquet this is a refreshing white wine.

Our “classic” Riesling makes a perfect complement for appetizers, seafood, cheeses and white meats or enjoy it just on its own.

GRAPES: 86% Riesling, 14% Gewurztraminer

VQA Ontario
ALCOHOL: 12.5%

LCBO # 145417
Price: 750 mL $11.95

Rate and review Pelee Island Lighthouse Riesling 2009.

Winemaker’s Notes:
Our 2010 Riesling displays the crisp yet fruity flavours you’ve come to love from Sprucewood Shores. Experience aromas of citrus and peach that prepare your palate for a refreshingly crisp lime and green apple flavour.

VQA Lake Erie North Shore
13% alc./vol.

Sugar Code: 1
Released On: April 19th, 2011
Serve With: Shellfish, Whitefish, Citrus Fruit

Price: 750 mL $12.95

Rate and review Sprucewood Shores Riesling 2010

Winemaker’s Notes:
Tart, green apple and cirus notes abound in this flavourful softly effervescent Frizzante. Pair this with smoked salmon and capers, oysters on the half shell, chicken kebobs or with good friends as a delicious apertif.

What is Frizzante?
Italians refer to slightly sparkling wines as frizzante wines. In Spain, however, frizzante wines are known as Vino de Aguja. The French term for this type of sparkling wine is Petillant and the German term is Perlwein.

Frizzante wines have small bubbles that offer a refreshing tingle while helping to mask the wine’s sweetness. Frizzante wines are also considered to be slightly less effervescent than champagne. If you find champagne to be too “fizzy” for your tastes, frizzante wines are a great beverage choice for weddings, anniversaries, holidays, and other special occasions.

Although there are many different types of frizzante wines, Lambrusco, Gavi, Vinho Verde, and Moscato d’Asti are among the most common.

VQA Ontario
Alcohol Content: 11.0 %

Price: 750 mL – $9.75

Rate and review Colio Frizzante.

Winemaker’s Notes:Nature gives us such a great Erie Shore Riesling. 2008 is apple and red grapefruit flavours, pear and peach with a pleasant fruity, clean finish. It is great with turkey, pork, salmon, veal, fowl, lamb, fruit sauces and condiments, vegetables, pastas with cream and cheese sauces, dressed salads and cheeses.

VQA Lake Erie North Shore
12% alc./vol
Sugar code: 1

Price: 750 mL $12.95

Rate and review Erie Shore Riesling 2008.

Winemaker’s Notes:
Auxerrois / Riesling blend

VQA Lake Erie North Shore

12% alc./vol.

Price: 750 mL $13

Rate and review Smith & Wilson Vista del Lago 2009.

Winemaker’s Notes:
We lovingly dedicate this wine to the memory of our precious daughter Brittany Alyssa Mastronardi. BriAnjë translates to “Angel Brittany”. Brittany touched so many lives in her short 11 years. She taught us to celebrate life, love and family.

A portion of all sales of BriAnjë will be donated to the Batten disease in memory of Brittany. It has been our honour to share her beauitful spirit with you! Celebrate life and toast to BriAnjë!!

This Riesling will surprise you with its floral aromas that evolve into flavours of pineapple and honeysuckle. It lends itself to grilled chicken, soft cheeses, and spicy foods.

VQA lake Erie North Shore
12.3% alc./vol.
Sugar Code: 2

Price: 750 mL $15

Rate and review Mastronardi BriAnjë Riesling 2008

Colchester Ridge Estate Winery (CREW)

Winemaker’s Notes:
A crisp pear nose leads into a surprisingly smooth and delicately sweet mouth-feel. The taste is reminiscent of mandarin oranges while the balanced acids result in a clean finish, with lingering pecan.

VQA Lake Erie North Shore
11.6 alc./vol.
100 cases produced

Price: 750 mL – $14.00

Rate and review CREW Riesling 2009.

Winemaker’s Notes:
This 2009 Riesling is made in the style as past Rieslings from Muscedere. We whole berry press our Riesling grapes, creating a light-bodied, clean, crisp, refreshing white wine with a hint of residual sweetness. An excellent sipping wine for the deck or poolside.

Pairs well with appetizers, salads and spicy foods. Serve slightly chilled.

Hand-harvested: October 20th, 2009
Total production: 100 cases

VQA Lake Erie North Shore

11.5% alc./vol.

Price: 750 mL $16

Rate and review Muscedere Vineyards Riesing 2009.

Winemaker’s Notes:
This Riesling has an outstanding nose of lemon grass and citrus. The palate comes in very different from the nose, with a front palate flavour hinting peach and kiwi that gives way to an earthy and herbaceous finish. Some hints of citrus & mineral can be detected. This wine is off dry and can be paired well with thai food, chicken, and pasta in cream sauces.

VQA Ontario
13% alc./vol.
Sugar Code: 1

Price: 750 mL $12.95

Rate and review Sprucewood Shores Riesling 2009.

On the heels of a marginally cool spring, the warm, dry 2007 summer made way for timely rains in the early fall and excellent ripening conditions in the Lake Erie North Shore.

Colour: Pale straw
Bouquet: Honey, melons and baked apple
Taste: Green apple, lemon zest and honey finish
Serve at: 8º – 10º C
Blend: Riesling 100%
Harvest Date: Oct 9, 10, 11, 2007
Brix at Harvest: 18.2
Fermentation: Stainless steel tanks
Aging: Stainless steel tanks
Residual Sugar: 9 g/l
Alcohol Content: 11.5 %
Production: 1100 cases
Winemaker: Tim Reilly
Food Match: Vegetarian, Turkey, Thai, Seafood, Salmon, Pork, Oriental, Fish – Light Flavoured, Chicken, Cheeses-mild

VQA Lake Erie North Shore

Price: 750 mL – $15.35

Rate and review Colio CEV Riesling Reserve 2007