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, spice and currants.

Matches well with grilled meats, whire meats, roast meats, pork and pizza.

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

VQA Lake Erie North Shore
12.5% alc./vol

Price: 750 mL $????

Rate and review Erie Shore Zweigelt 2007

Winemaker’s Notes:
You will find very ripe, plumy-sweet flavours and richness in this wine. It has a rustic character. Some would also call it a bistro style,”elbows- on-the-table” wine. Great with stews, red meat or tomato-based dishes.

VQA Ontario

GRAPES: 87% Cabernet Franc, 10% Zweigelt, 3% Cabernet Sauvignon
ALCOHOL: 13.5%
SUGAR CODE: (0)

Price: 750 mL $11.95

Rate and review Pelee Island Lighthouse Cabernet Franc 2009

Winemaker’s Notes:
These grapes were left on the vine until early October.

This wine would be excellent slightly chilled and served with a beef or lamb dish. A superb choice for the summer BBQ or dinner table.

GRAPES: 85% Merlot, 15% Zweigelt
ALCOHOL: 13.5%
RESIDUAL SUGAR: 3.0 g/L
SUGAR CODE: (0)

Price: 750 mL $12.95

Rate and review Pelee Island Merlot Reserve 2009

Winemaker’s Notes:
One of our fullest reds, with the warmhearted character that Merlot fans enjoy. A good balance of richness, mellow sweet flavours and the essential bite for food.

A wine of dark red colour rounded through oak aging with a hint of black cuurant flavour.

GRAPES: 85% Merlot, 15% Zweigelt
ALCOHOL: 13.5%
VQA Ontario

Price: 750 mL $12.95

Rate and review Pelee Island Merlot 2008.

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 wine combines the characteristics of dried berry fruit and light cherry notes with fine tannins and vanilla aromas.

The Chambourcin grapes used for this wine were left on the vine until they had reached 20.8 brix, and the Cabernet Franc grapes were harvested at 21.2 brix.

A great wine to be enjoyed with friends around the dinner table.

VQA Ontario

GRAPES: 60% Cabernet Franc, 30% Chambourcin, 10% Zweigelt
ALCOHOL: 13.5%
RESIDUAL SUGAR: 4.1 g/L
Sugar Code: (0)

Price: 750 mL $10.45

Rate and review Pelee Island Eco Trail – RED 2008

Winemaker’s Notes:
This wine has lots of vitality. Quite tangy, dry and refreshing so it really livens the palate and makes you hungry. These grape varieties produce a wine with a bright, cheerful character.

The Gamay Noir grapes were harvested in early October when the brix had reached 21.4 and the Zweigelt in mid-September, when the brix had reached 20. They were then left for four to six days in a temperature-controlled rotor fermenter under partial pressure.

This wine is an excellent companion to red meats and game without sauces.

GRAPES: 50% Zweigelt, 50% Gamay Noir
ALCOHOL: 13%
RESIDUAL SUGAR: 4.1 g/L
Sugar Code: (0)

Price: 750 mL $10.95

VQA Ontario

Rate and review Pelee Island Gamay Noir Zweigelt 2008.

Winemaker’s Notes:
One of our fullest reds, with the warmhearted character that Merlot fans enjoy. A good balance of richness, mellow sweet flavours and the essential bite for food. Delicious now but could be aged a year or two.

These grapes were left on the vine until early October.

This wine would be excellent slightly chilled and served with a beef or lamb dish. A superb choice for the summer BBQ or dinner table.

GRAPES: 85% Merlot – 15% Zweigelt
ALCOHOL: 13.5%
RESIDUAL SUGAR: 3.0 g/L
Sugar Code: (0)

VQA Ontario

Price: 750 mL $12.95

Rate and review Pelee Island Merlot Reserve 2008

Winemaker’s Notes:
This wine is best served at room temperature with grilled or roasted red meat, game, ham, roast pork or grilled Atlantic salmon.

Our Pinot Noir is a medium red wine with a leather / tobacco aroma and a distinctive tannic finish.

PINOT NOIR
This Burgundy grape is one of the oldest varieties cultivated by man. On Pelee Island it thrives in a microclimate that enjoys the longest growing season with the greatest amount of heat units in Canada.

VQA Ontario

GRAPES: 85% Pinot Noir – 15% Zweigelt
ALCOHOL: 13%
RESIDUAL SUGAR: 3.9 g/L

Price: 750 ML $12.45

Rate and review Pelee Island Pinot Noir 2008.

Winemaker’s Notes:
The Gamay Noir grapes were harvested in early October when the brix had reached 21.4 and the Zweigelt in mid-September, when the brix had reached 20. They were then left for four to six days in a temperature-controlled rotor fermenter under partial pressure.

This wine is an excellent companion to red meats and game without sauces.

This wine has lots of vitality. Quite tangy, dry and refreshing so it really livens the palate and makes you hungry. These grape varieties produce a wine with a bright, cheerful character.

GRAPES: 50% Zweigelt, 50% Gamay Noir
ALCOHOL: 12.5% alc./vol.
RESIDUAL SUGAR: 4.1 g/L
Sugar Code: (0)

Price: 750 mL $10.95

Rate and review Pelee Island Gamay Noir Zweigelt 2007