One of the best buys from Chile is this Syrah: a dense purple wine with a smoky, blackberry nose augment by vanilla oak. Full-bodied and dry, it offers richly extracted flavours of blackcurrants and blackberries shaped by sweet tannins. It’s an impressive wine for the price.
Quite thick and viscous with a nose of apricot, mango, sweet pear and honey. Lovely texture shows off the ripe apricot, tropical fruits, compoted peach and pear with a creamy finish. An exotic expression of Vidal.
Aromas are nutty with dark baker’s chocolate. Flavours of sweet candied cherries with rich chocolate on the mid-palate finish with notes of dry dark chocolate, coffee and toasted smokiness.
Pretty garnet in the glass with up-front cherry and vanilla before a sleek palate of cherry and earthy savoury notes with a touch of spice, wrapped in fine tannins with the perfect balance of oak and fruit. Drink now, but better still, put some away for a few years.
This is an all-year-round rosé with enough power to stand up to white meat dishes. Deep pink in colour with a floral, cherry nose; full-bodied, dry and fresh with red berry flavours threaded with minerality and lively acidity.
This wine won a Silver Medal at the 2010 Ottawa Wine Challenge. Straw-coloured with a bouquet of peach and grapefruit and that characteristic petrol note that Riesling develops with age. Light bodied. There’s a honeyed note in mid-palate that’s nicely balanced with the citrus fruit, finishing crisply dry.
A genuinely impressive bubbly made in the traditional method from 100% Pinot Noir grapes and aged for over 8.5 years on its yeast cells. Copper colour with small pinpoint bubbles. It is bone-dry, with a profile of yeast, brioche, cherry, strawberry, spice, chalk and earth. Long creamy aftertaste with brisk acidity.