Essex Wine Review

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.

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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

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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

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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)

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Price: 750 mL $12.95

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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.

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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

Winemaker’s Notes:
This wine has a pronounced fruity bouquet and becomes rounder and finer with aging. The nose has expressions of black cherries with a surprise black pepper finish. High complexity, well balanced, ripe and soft tannins. This Zweigelt is great by itself or enjoy with beef and barbecues.
Sugar Code: 0

12.8% alc. /vol.

Price: 750 mL $10

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Winemaker’s Notes:
Pelee Island Monarch Red is a fun and lively red wine with ripe and jammy fruit flavours. A welcoming aroma of cherry and violets give way to a balanced finish with robust tannins. This wine is great accompaniment to grilled red meats and full flavoured cheeses.

Grape Composition:
Baco Noir 34%
Marchel Foch 33%
Zweigelt 33%

Alcohol: 13%
Residual Sugar: 6.5 g/L
Sugar Code: (1)

Price: 750 mL $9.75

CLICK HERE to rate and review Pelee Island Monarch Red 2007.

Winemaker’s Notes:
If you have liked our Duet in the past, you are going to love the new one! As in the past, it is still 85% Zweigelt, and 15% Cabernet Franc. It has wonderful smoothness, good tannins, and spiciness. Matched with grilled meats, white meats, roast meats, pork and pizza.

Price: 750 mL $14.95

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RELEASED (January 2009)

Winemaker Notes:
Excellent, smooth, medium bodied wine, softly cellared in our French oak barrels. Lovely finish. A blend of 85% Zweigelt and 15% Cabernet Franc, giving black pepper and current flavours. Zweigelt grows wonderfully here at the Erie Shore. It is an early season blue vinifera. Matched with grilled meats, white meats, roast meats, pork and pizza.

2005 VQA Duet Zweigelt-Cabernet Franc - A blend of red vitis vinifera varieties

Price per 750 mL bottle: $14.95

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