Elegant floral and green fruit aromatics are matched with equally intense and refined flavours on the palate. Additional complexity and richness come from a touch of oak influence and slightly higher alcohol. Finishes with pure green-apple crispness and contrasting rounded, creamery butter‒like texture.
Rustic, ripe and ready, this is a deeper hued rosé of Garnacha from Spain. A reductive swing and noticeable bump of sugar make this extra-punchy to the short, hot finish. Well chilled, this might have a chance with your tuna burgers this summer.
This is the best version of this wine to date, having benefited from the wonderful growing conditions of 2007. The bouquet soars with chocolate-covered coffee bean, cassis, coconut, violets, black pepper and leather. The same is found on the mid weight palate with notes of raspberries and smoke added in for good measure. There is excellent length and it is ready to drink now or until 2015.
Such a beauty, and a perfect example of cool-climate Ontario Syrah at its best. The nose is exciting with beetroot, cracked pepper, currants, bay leaves, dried herbs and rich red fruits. It is savoury and raw on the palate with toasted spices, pepper, anise, concentrated cherry and raspberry, liquorice and campfire smoke all built on a solid structure that builds through a lengthy finish. Buy, hold and enjoy.
Deep plum, cassis and dried blueberry fill the basin of this fleshy Maipú Malbec, sourced from their estate vineyards in Las Barrancas. After fermenting in stainless, this spends a year in new oak (20/80 French/American), imparting sweet, ripe, toasty richness and potent, silky kirsch. Tannins are thick and sticky, and chocolate and cherries linger on the spicy, warming finish.
A blend of rye, barley and corn whiskies fermented, distilled and aged differently (as is the Canadian way), Forty Creek Copper Pot is a pretty dram without a trace of daintiness. Butterscotch and vanilla on the nose with a pronounced golden fruit presence like apricot and sultanas. Initially sweet, almost like roasted marshmallows; it doesn’t take long for spice to swoop in and present a peppery, grain-packed finish.
Typically vivid Chilean aromatic grassy freshness; gooseberry, pungent green herb and mineral on the nose, and generous sweet ripe gooseberry, citrus and passion fruit with lively acidity and a long fruity finish.