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Wagner Pug’s Head Cider

Every wine region needs a fruit winery to keep it honest … if that’s not an old saying it should be. While grape wines take on all kinds of different fruit flavours and smells, fruit wines stay true to what they were made of. This cider, the first made ...

Wagner Log House Red

Harold Wagner makes a few grape wines to compliment his line of fruit wines – this red blend changes from year to year, is “seasoned to taste” (his mostly) and remains non-vintaged. This year 80% Gamay and 20% Zweigelt makes for a nice light chillable qu ...

Wagner Firehouse Red

From the Lake Erie North Shore’s only fruit winery comes this little gem that has a decidedly deceptive name. Firehouse Red, to many, might invoke ideas of a spicy or smoky red wine - but that description would not apply to this wine. In fact, the color ...

Wagner Bridal Path

Made with a blend of raspberries and vidal, along with a couple other varietals, this wine is an excellent summer afternoon patio sipper … raspberry smells hit the nose and then follow through on the palate. It smells like it is going to be a sweet desse ...

Wagner Black Cat

Harold Wagner is the Dennis Hopper of the Lake Erie North Shore region - he's a bit of a wild man. He seems to always be mixing grapes and fruits to make something that is tasty as well as interesting. This time he has taken Vidal (70%) and mixed in bla ...

Wagner 2012-Tasted NV Forbidden Fruit

This is the kinda wacky, mad scientist blend I have come to expect form Harold Wagner. Vidal mixed with raspberry (icewine-style) and cherry wine … carbonated and made into a frothy fun beverage. The nose is all raspberry while the palate gives you the ...

Wagner 2010 Log House Dry

Harold Wagner is one of my favourite people in the Lake Erie North Shore, he can gripe with the best of them when it comes to our arcane system and the LCBO because he has good reason … his orchard and fruit winery is looked upon as a second class citizen ...

Wagner 2010 Dark Angel

This seems a very tame blend for a usually out-there type of blender like Harold Wagner – this 50/50 duo of Merlot and Cabernet Franc is a fruit forward affair that has slight oak notes: cherry, vanilla and cinnamon take the reins before relinquishing to ...

Viewpointe 2011 Auxerrois

Nose of apple, nectarine and peach skin; the palate has a touch of sweetness with delicious apple and pear nectar – finishes nicely with acidity and the merest hint of spice. Price: $14.95 – Rating: *** ½+

Viewpointe 2010 Auxerrois

Auxerrois has really fallen out of fashion in Ontario. I remember when I first began to explore Ontario wine country, Auxerrois was made well by a handful of producers and I thought it made a lovely wine. But due to its name and lack of popularity it wa ...

Viewpointe 2007 Cabernet-Merlot-Petit Verdot

In theory this is a Meritage blend because it has the grape requirements (Petit Vedot) is one of the 5 allowed Bordeaux varieties) … instead the folks at Viewpointe decided to spell out on the label exactly that you’re getting. This wine spent 19-20 mont ...

Viewpointe 2007 Cabernet Franc

This wine spent a whopping 27 months in oak – for those who are calendary-challenged that’s over 2 years … the result is a wine that has smooth raspberry fruit mixed with red currant, sour cherry and tobacco notes … the oak flavouring appears on the finis ...

Viewpointe 2006 Cabernet-Merlot

Here's an exclusive wine for all those searching for a good inexpensive Ontario wine at the LCBO. Nice dark fruit with a touch of spiced blueberry. Smooth, easy drinking and not something that's gonna break the bank. Price: $12.95 - Rating *** 1/2+

Viewpointe 2005 “Ideal Pointe” Barrel Fermented Chardon...

Viewpointe’s price structure has most wines below $20, but then there are the 4 “pointe” wines which are their reserve wines and range in price between $20 and $33. This barrel fermented Chard spends 6 months on the lees and is showing beautifully right ...

Viewpointe 2005 Riesling

Viewpointe’s wine store is finally open. Viewpointe is a beautiful property that overlooks Lake Erie and has so much potential – and trust me they are making every effort to take advantage of it. It has the makings of being the showcase winery for the a ...

Viewpointe 2005 Cabernet Franc

The Lake Erie North Shore’s showpiece winery, Viewpointe, has a philosophy of not releasing wines until it is time … well the time is right to release this 2005 Franc. Smells linger on the olfactory lobes with black cherry, vanilla and white pepper; tast ...

Viewpointe 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon

Anybody who’s paying any kind of attention to the Ontario wine scene knows that 2002 was a fantastic year for grape-growing and winemaking. That was 5 years ago and many of those wines are just coming into their own now. This Cab Sauv seems to have deve ...

Viewpointe 2001 Cabernet-Merlot

2001 was a “suspect” year in Ontario – that’s the year the bugs came to town. Many of the wines were tainted with “ladybug”, the more technical term being “pyrazine” … those in the Lake Erie North Shore area cringe at that broad brush representation of t ...

Sprucewood Shores 2011 Riesling

It used to be hard to find Riesling in the Lake Erie North Shore, but today there are a number of producers showing love for this grape. Winemaker Tanya Mitchell has got 20 year old vines to play with, making for some of the oldest Riesling in the region ...

Sprucewood Shores 2011 Pinot Gris

Tanya Mitchell admits to putting 8% Riesling in with her Pinot Gris to jazz it up a bit – and I would say she succeeded … there’s a nice crispness to this wine and has flavours of apple seed and peach pit; well-balanced acidity and a lemon peel finish. P ...

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