This wine, the original Ripasso, celebrates its 50th birthday with this vintage. Ripe with plum, raspberry, cherry, violets, tobacco, cocoa, herbs and spice. Fresh acidity and fine-grained tannins round out the package. Ready to drink. Try with a sausage ragu!
Opaquely deep plum red. Medium-intensity nose includes black pepper, vanilla, and strawberry aromas with a hint of eucalyptus. Medium-bodied with juicy cherry flavours that are still unintegrated with the acids and tannins — needs more time, will improve for a couple of years. Good value.
Forward black fruit with spicy hints precede a plush, mouth-filling palate of blackberry, mulberry, cassis and anise, with well-integrated tannins and a generous, lingering close.
A shade lighter ruby colour than the 2012, this is more Burgundian in style than earlier vintages. It presents a cedary, cherry nose from richly extracted fruit; medium-bodied, dry and beautifully balanced with a lovely mouthfeel and very elegant from first sniff to its long finish.
Year in, year out, this is one of Ontario’s best Cab Francs. In ‘08, because of challenging growing conditions, the grapes were harvested on November 25, with a natural alcohol content of 13.5%. The perfume of flowers, pencil shavings, cassis, tobacco, raspberries and vanilla seduces the taster. In the mouth, it is elegant and refined, with lots of fine-grained tannins. Drink it over the next 5 years.
Perennial, flagship Riesling sports tropical and stone-fruit notes on the nose. A complex, mouth-filling but still elegant and very focused palate that builds through layers of lemon-lime and peach with firm slate streaks before a persistent and powerful close.
Fresh herbal, lemony aromas join whiffs of lime zest. Succulent acidity sets up the rich gooseberry mid-palate, accompanied by hints of ripe peach and guava. Clean, citrus finish clears path for refreshing minerality. Very elegantly structured, so pairs well with a wide range of fish fillets.