Essex Wine Review

Winemaker’s Notes:
Brilliant! Full bodied and delicious this wine offers the palate a rich variation of flavors to explore. The bright aromas of red licorice and cherry reflect in a wine exhibiting great balance amongst fruit, acid, tannin, and body. The mid palate is lush and hints at black cherry, with an excellent finish that lingers on the tongue and in the mind. Enjoy.

Blends:
40% Cabernet Sauvignon
30% Cabernet Franc
30% Merlot

VQA Lake Erie North Shore
13% alc./vol.
Sugar Code: 0

Price: 750 mL $21.95

Rate and review Sprucewood Shores Meritage 2007

Winemaker’s Notes:
This year’s wine is quite the elegant lady. Her perfume is like licorice and raisin, and you taste the cherry when your lips meet hers. She’s bold and medium bodied, with a soft and gracious finish. Serve with tomato based sauces, veal, and cuts of well marbled steak.

VQA Lake Erie North Shore
12.5% alc./vol.
Sugar Code: 0

Price: 750 mL $14.95

Rate and review Sprucewood Shores Lady In Red 2007

Winemaker’s Notes:
The Baco Noir is a dark smoky wine nestled in a medium bodied bed of blackberry. Smooth enough to enjoy on it’s own this wine carries an excellent finish to savor with any dish you choose to whip up, and well priced enough to enjoy any evening of the week!

Serve with duck, venison, stroganoff, root vegetables.

VQA Ontario
12.5% alc./vol.
Sugar Code: 1

Price: 750 mL $10.95

Rate and review Sprucewood Shores Baco Noir 2008.

Winemaker’s Notes:
Full bodied, bold tannins with blackberry and licorce flavours. Serve with steak, veal, chocolate or aged cheese.

VQA Lake Erie North Shore
12.5% alc./vol.
Sugar Code: 0

Price: 750 mL $24.95

Rate and review Sprucewood Shores Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve 2007

Winemaker’s Notes:
Medium Bodied. This Chardonnay releases a vibrant, tropical nose of melon, banana, and a hint of mineral. The palate is very fruity and shows pineapple, and melon. Excellent when paired with tropical fruits, salad, and salmon.

VQA Ontario

13% alc./vol.
Sugar Code: 0

Price: 750 mL $14.95

Rate and review Sprucewood Shores Chardonnay 2009

Winemaker’s Notes:
A delicious Pinot Gris that shows grapefruit & pear on the nose. Flavors of peach & citrus grace the tastebuds with a soft feel, until a pleasant surprise comes with it’s zesty finish. Excellent with seafood, salads, and light meats.

VQA Ontario
12.5% alc./vol.
Sugar Code: 1

Price: 750 mL $12.95

Rate and review Sprucewood Shores Pinot Gris 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.

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

Rate and review Sprucewood Shores Chardonnay 2008

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

Rate and review Sprucewood Shores Barrel Reserve Chardonnay 2008.

Winemaker’s Notes:
This Pinot is considered a light-bodied wine, but be prepared for a big burst of flavour. Explore the many facets of this versatile wine as you go from toasty mint, cherry, strawberry, and oak, to a soft lingering sensation on your palate.

Serve with cheese and crackers or grilled summer vegetables and chicken.

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

Price: 750 mL $14.95

Rate and review Sprucewood Shores Pinot Noir 2007