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Category: Red Wine

Rosehall Run 2004 Pinot Noir

For a few years now, people have been talking about Prince Edward County’s ability to make Burgundian style Pinot Noir, but due to the short crops and bad winters, we have not seen much of that promise fulfilled. After my latest visit, I would have to say I just might be a believer in what’s to come from The County: two Pinots that, put simply, changed my point of view*. One of these Pinots is this one from Rosehall Run and their all-County fruit. A wonderful nose of cherries and earth with ...
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Waupoos Estates Winery 2004 Cabernet-Gamay

Sometimes you just need a red wine you can chill and slug back glass after glass, without too much thought … this is just such a wine. Waupoos claims right on the bottle “semi-dry red wine”, which means there is some residual sugar remaining or added during the winemaking process. This also means there’s a lack of tannin grip or bite … in short, it’s a ready to drink quaffing wine. This straight-forward, simple, easy drinking red has sweet cherry, vanilla and some far away smoke on the nose; ...
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Waupoos Estates Winery 2005 Baco Noir

As we all know, Baco can be a pretty harsh grape and can make some pretty harsh tasting wines. When made well, people find Baco can be sublime; but when made poorly, its tastes are well below sub-par. So which side of the coin does this Waupoos version find itself? I tasted this one with a panel of 4, two Baco drinkers and two non-Baco drinkers, and nobody threw it back at me; so am I right to assume it passed the test? Definitely oaky and smokey on both the nose and taste. There is also so...
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Sandbanks Estate Winery 2005 Cabernet Franc

When you only have 4 wines (currently) – it makes it easier to pick a favourite than when you have a wall full … that’s why this Cabernet Franc is the Pick of the Bunch this week. Had I not been to the winery, tried the wine there; then bought a few bottles and tried them again at home, I would have totally believed this fruit-bomb was from California or Australia. It shows that here in Ontario we can make a fully fruit driven wine from this grape. Aged 6 months in oak, this Cab Franc is allo...
Rating: 5,00 (1 Votes) [Hits: 716 ]

Black Prince Winery 2004 Cabernet Franc

Black Prince Winery has the distinction of being one of the two wineries from which I purchased one of my 2 bottles, bought back in 2004; so I was looking forward to returning and sample something else. This 2004 Cabernet France is a soothing wine, because it doesn’t strive to be anymore than what it is, an easy-drinking, light-bodied wine, good with a wide variety of foods (on this night meatloaf and mildly sauced short ribs). There’s some mild green pepper and sweet tobacco on the nose, whil...
Rating: 4,00 (1 Votes) [Hits: 169 ]
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