Besides being Winemaker of the Year at this year’s Ontario Wine Awards, Shiraz Mottiar is without a doubt making Ontario’s best Gamays ― period! This vintage features strawberry, raspberry, plum, black pepper and purple flower. There is a sense of sweet fruit on the lips, this before Gamay’s lovely acidity sweeps everything up. Great stuff!
This is a near-natural wine with no sulphur or anything added to the wine. It is a beautiful thing with a lovely reductive campfire note on the nose to go with red plums, mulled cherry, meaty notes, herbs and a complex array of savoury red fruits. It’s remarkably meaty, earthy and savoury on the palate with thick, rich black fruits, polished tannins, earth and layered spices that is all together complex, wild and untethered through a long finish.
The blend for this estate’s top wine is 40% each of Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc with the rest Merlot. The nose is thick with blackberries, cherries, intense spice notes, currants, earth, bramble and sweet tobacco. It has wonderful mouthfeel and energy on the palate with lavish dark fruits, cocoa bean, cigar leaf, baking spices, ripe tannins, structure and tangy acidity on the finish.
Shows complex raspberry, piquant blackcurrant and lifted floral scent together with cinnamon and a whiff of clove. Dominant raspberry flavour on the palate is accented with a pinch of white pepper and subtle earthy notes. Will benefit from another 3 years' cellaring.
A rocking nose of savoury red fruits, herbs, cedar cigar box, rich spices, black pepper, liquorice and toasted vanilla. It has lovely mouthfeel with a rich broth of red fruits, savoury herbs, pepper, elegant oak spices and plush tannins with a perky and lifted finish.
Brimming with red fruit and raspberry plus earthy and sage hints, with a luscious but well-structured palate of juicy raspberry, mulberry and mocha, underpinned by a wicked streak of Similkameen minerality. Raisin, pepper and spice persisting on the midpalate through a savoury edged ending.
Elegantly perfumed classic Pinot nose offers enticing scents of strawberry and fine spice. Shifts towards more cherry-like flavours in the mouth with velvety tannins; still somewhat forward acidity, and a light splash of milk chocolate.