Essex Wine Review

Winemaker’s Notes:
This Austrian bred grape produces a medium bodied wine with good acidity, soft tannins and a distinctive red colour. Flavours include black pepper and currants.

If you have liked our Duet in the past, you are going to love the new Zweigelt! 100% Zweigelt. It has wonderful smoothness, good tannins, and spiciness. Aged in French Oak Barrels for 18 months. Matched with grilled meats, white meats, roast meats, pork and pizza.

This very popular Austrian grape is well suited to Lake Erie North Shore and our climate.

VQA Lake Erie North Shore
12.5% alc./vol
Sugar code: (0)

Price: 750 mL $14.95

Rate and review Erie Shore Zweigelt 2006.

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

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:
None currently available.

Awards:
Gold – 2010 All Canadian Wine Championships (Syrah / Shiraz Under $25)

VQA Lake Erie North Shore
13 alc./vol.

Price: 750 mL $19.95

Rate and review Sanson Syrah 2007.

Winemaker’s Notes:
Our 2009 Rosé comes on the heals of our 2008 that was very popular for its drier characteristics. Like the 2008 it is made in a Southern French style where Rosé is not very sweet. Enjoy chilled on the patio or by the pool.

To make our Rosé we use grapes from our vineyard we use grapes that have been exposed to limited skin contact which gives the wine its light red colour. Made in our traditional style with a hint of residual sugar, this Rosé can be enjoyed in the summer sun as a sipping wine and with light hors d’oeuvres or salads.

Hand-harvested: September 26, 2008
Total production: 60 cases

VQA Lake Erie North Shore

11.5% alc./vol.

Price: 750 mL $14

Rate and review Muscedere Vineyards Rosé 2009

Winemaker’s Notes:
Another great Chardonnay! This unoaked dry white wine, is smooth, buttery, vanilla and lightly fruity. Nicely matched with most main courses including: chicken, beef, game, lamb, pork, vegetables, cream sauces course, most cheeses, pizza, Thai, and Chinese.

VQA Lake Erie North Shore
12% alc./vol
Sugar code: (0)

Price: 750 mL $12.95

Rate and review Erie Shore Unoaked Chardonnay 2007

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

Colio Estate Vineyards (CEV)-Ultra Premium VQA

Winemakers Notes: Damp spring weather in the Lake Erie North Shore provided ample moisture to carry through a very dry June and July, while the timely August rain and fairly dry autumn set the stage for a bountiful harvest of good quality fruit.

Colour: Light straw
Bouquet: Sweet Tropical fruit and fresh cut hay
Taste: Zesty citrus and lemongrass, soft mineral finish
Serve at: 8º – 10º C

Blend: Sauvignon Blanc 100%
Brix at Harvest: 20.5
Fermentation: Stainless steel tanks
Aging: Stainless steel tanks
Residual Sugar: 2 g/l
Alcohol Content: 13.8 %
Production: 500 cases
Winemaker: Tim Reilly

Food Match: Pasta-cream based, Fish – Light Flavoured, Chicken
Grape Variety: Sauvignon Blanc

VQA Lake Erie North Shore

Price: 750 mL – $15.75

Rate and review Colio CEV Sauvignon Blanc 2008

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