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	Cattail Creek 2008 Select Late Harvest Meritage Here’s a different kind of sweetie that is rarely seen – a blend. Usually, icewine and/or late harvest wines are made up from one single varietal: Riesling, Vidal, Cabernet Franc, etc, but this one has three reds mixed up in it: Cabernet Franc (50%), Merlot (30%) and Cabernet Sauvignon (20%). The smells are sweet ripe and sugared red berries and cherries, while the taste delivers the sweet cherry, strawberry and hits of raspberry to the palate. The balance between sugar and acidity will have... Hits: 18
	Fielding Estate 2007 Chardonnay Musque There are certain wines that are just made for summer – and sometimes you find those wines in the dead of winter – this is one of those wines. I tasted this one during a late fall afternoon during Wrapped Up in the Valley (20 Valley’s pre-Christmas touring event) and as I sipped it on Fielding’s back patio during abnormally warm temperatures for late-November. I thought, “I wish I had found this mid-summer instead of right now.” A nose of pear, apple and tangerine that was thoroughly inviting... Hits: 7
	Organized Crime Winery 2007 Cabernet Franc I have often thought of winemaker Andrjez Lipinski as a white wine genius, but of late he is showing a pretty deft hand with reds too. This Cabernet Franc spent 17 months in new 225L Eastern European (Polish and Ukrainian) oak. Smells and flavours intermingle to produce tobacco, cherry, strawberry, and herb notes; smooth on the palate with a touch of grit from the tannins, nice fruit, oak and spice with a delicious long cherry finish. Only 150 cases produced from 6 barrels. This is a fabulou... Hits: 15
	Southbrook 2008 Triomphe Merlot This has the distinction of being Canada’s first bio-dynamic red. Now some folks don’t fully understand bio-dynamic winemaking; it seems like a lot of hocus-pocus with its phases of the moon planning and poop-filled horns in the vineyard. Allow me to alleviate your fears of any magical mystery about the wine, what it all boils down to is getting back to a more natural way of making wine. This Merlot has got a lot of oomph and power, from the smoky blackberry and black raspberry nose to the ca... Hits: 15
	Stratus 2007 WildAss Red 03/02/2010 - Weekly Wine Note and Podcast … For full review copy and paste the following link into your browser: http://ontariowinereviews.blogspot.com/2010/02/stratus-2007-wildass-red-1995.html ... when cutting and pasting into your browser be sure to remove the period(s) after "html". Price: $19.95 - Rating: ****... Hits: 16
	Fielding Estate Winery 2007 Chosen FEW Red Big wines come with big price tags attached; then again, so do limited availability wines. This atypical red blend of 45% Cabernet Sauvignon, 41% Merlot and 14% Syrah had only 150 case produced. This wine’s big and muscular, just what you’d expect from a wine containing Cabernet and Syrah, but the Merlot adds its own muscle to the mix too. The nose and palate are quite complex adding layers of aromas and flavours. Blackberry and smoky notes start off the smells with smoked meat and violets o... Hits: 75
	Fielding Estate Winery 2007 Merlot Eighteen months in barrel and on lees from a big year can produce this kind of black beauty of a Merlot. This is not your mother’s soft spoken, supple fruited Merlot of a bygone era. This is also not the kind of Merlot Milo spoke about in Sideways. This is a brawny Merlot with a tight unwielding nose that tickles the olfactries with cassis, cinnamon and the possibility of things to come. The palate shows a little more than the nose; sure you’ll find big blackberry and cassis flavours but the... Hits: 82
	Fielding Estate Winery 2007 Syrah So far this wine has shown both critics and judges that it is a force to be reckoned with. Silver Medals at both the Canadian Wine Awards (2009) and Intervin (2009) and the Best Syrah – Gold Medal, Cuvee (2010); I have a feeling that more medals and awards are still to come. The nose delivers a plethora of smells: blackberry, black pepper, smoky bacon, hints of violet, smoked meat spice and black cherry. The palate also has some power, with big, brash, young and spicy tannins across the tongu... Hits: 79
	Fielding Estate Winery 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon Robust Cabernet Sauvignon fans will dig right into this brawny beauty from Fielding. With its deep dark fruit and its mix of ready-to-go-edness and lie-it-down-for-a-rainy-day-edness. The nose is full of sweet blackberry mixed with hints of cocoa. The flavours deliver on the blackberry-cocoa promise with some black raspberry tossed in for good measure. If you’re intrigued enough to drink now I’d suggest decanting in the first few years (2010-2013) to get the most out of it. Otherwise, lie i... Hits: 76
	Fielding Estate Winery 2007 Meritage A traditional blend of the Bordelaise-three, yet with one grape taking lighter duty than usual, for Ontario anyway. Merlot makes up the majority owner of this wine with a whopping 62%, followed by Cabernet Sauvignon at 34%, Cabernet Franc picks up only a piddley 4% of the workload – an odd place for this Ontario work horse. But it’s in a year like 2007 that you have to take advantage of the other ripeners in the bunch (so to speak). Delicious blackberry, cassis, pepper, cinnamon, spice, black... Hits: 67

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