Our final wine of 2011′s 30 days of Local Wine, the 2010 Lighthouse Chardonnay Pelee Island VQA from Pelee Island Winery makes a wonderful accompaniment to cheeses, seafood and white meats. Whatever you serve this wine with should be as delicious and full of wonderful light flavours as the Chardonnay itself. Their viticulturalist has specially read more
Our final fruit wine for this years 30 Days of Local Wine, the Strawberry and Red Raspberry from Black Bear Farms & Estate Winery is a perfect wine to enjoy during the holidays. Made from sweet strawberries and Red Raspberries grown on Black Bear’s farm, this wine would be nice to enjoy a glass with read more
The 2007 VQA Unoaked Chardonnay from Erie Shore Vineyard is a lovely, fruity, but dry mid-bodied white wine. “It’s fruity, fresh apple and pears, good mouthfeel, medium body and nice clean acidity to make this one fresh and lively wine to sip on”, says Gary Killops of the Essex Wine Review. The wine has a read more
If you’re looking for great value, you will find it here in Sprucewood Shores Estate Winery‘s 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon. You will be hard pressed to find as good an Ontario Cabernet Sauvignon at this price point. This wine is well received dry red wine with a nice medium body, good tannins and acid and is read more
Can you believe it? We’re already into the final five days of the 30 Days of Local Wine! Have you been out to the Lake Erie North Shore wineries this month or purchased any of their wines? If so, which ones? What were your thoughts about them? Tell us what you paired it with. Maybe read more
$14.95 An All Canadian Bronze winner, the unoaked Chardonnay from Aleksander Estate Winery is full-bodied and dry combining red apple, rose water and honey notes with a soft finish. Retailing for only $14.95, it is sure to be a great match with pasta in a cream sauce, grilled salmon or crusty bread and cheese. Here is read more
Our final featured wine before Christmas, the Pelee Island Winery 2010 Alvar Pinot Noir’s flavours are reminiscent of sweet red berries, plums, tomatoes and cherries. It is well-suited to pair with poultry, beef, fish, ham, lamb and pork. This wine will play well with creamy sauces, spicy seasonings and may just be one of the read more
The group and Sprucewood Shores Estate Winery look forward to seeing you at the wineries this holiday season. However, if you don’t make it to the wineries for some reason, it doesn’t mean you can’t still buy local. Try our 2008 Lady In Red available now at the Roundhouse and Tecumseh & Lauzon LCBO branches. read more
Bear’s Special Blend from Black Bear Farms & Estate Winery is a wine that entices your taste buds to figure out what fruits are in it. To help them out we’ll give you the answer. This wine is a blend of red raspberry which wakes up your taste buds and leads you to the black read more
Pelee Island Winery‘s 2010 Alvar Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot not only has a smooth, lingering finish, dominated by wild cherry and spice flavours. This wine has a well-structured tannin, which gives this good aging potential. The grapes were harvested in late September to mid-October where they reach 20.2 degrees brix and then the grapes must spend 7 read more
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