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Willow Springs 2007 Merlot

03/23/2010 - Weekly Wine Note and Podcast … For full review copy and paste the following link into your browser: http://ontariowinereviews.blogspot.com/2010/03/willow-springs-2007-merlot-1400.html ... when cutting and pasting into your browser be sure ...

Willow Springs 2007 '5 Barrel Select' BF Chardonnay

For a guy who claims not to like Chardonnay, it is odd for me to put two in one newsletter, especially when it entails me bumping one of my favourite grapes out of the selection spot, Cabernet Franc (next time). But the bump seems necessary because there ...

Willow Springs 2005 Testa Limited Reserve Cabernet Fran...

This is one of those wines that you first try, then ask the price, then try it again – and during that second sip and swallow you’re thinking to yourself, “no way this wine is that price, better buy a few bottles before the guy realizes he’s made a mistak ...

Willow Springs 2005 Baco Noir

This is not the full, hearty, foxy Baco we’ve all come to expect from this grape. Nor is this a clone of the 2003 version … Willow Springs continues to experiment with it’s homegrown grape to see what can be done with it. There version of Baco is lighte ...

Willow Springs 2004 Testa Pinot Noir

01/15/2008 - Weekly Wine Note and Podcast … For full review copy and paste the following link into your browser: http://ontariowinereviews.blogspot.com/2008/01/willow-springs-does-not-grow-all-of.html

Willow Springs 2004 Baco Cabernet Franc

Willow Springs has been making a name for themselves with their light and fruity tasting Baco Noir grown on their own property up in Stouffville. By the same token, year after year, their Cabernet Franc has shown great promise … so it was only a matter o ...

Willow Springs 2003 Vidal Icewine - Testa

Beware of cheap icewine … my mother always tells me to avoid the word cheap, so let me try this again … Beware of inexpensive icewine (“that’s better dear”), it’s usually a sign that the wine has turned or is on the verge of turning into vinegar – sweet v ...

Willow Springs 2002 Cabernet

I think I am going to dub Willow Springs with the title “wines that surprise”. About two years ago I visited with unappealing results – unfriendly wines, with oddly named grapes on the shelf (Geisenheim; Lucy Kulman) and, although it was not out of the w ...

Willow Springs 2002 Baco Noir

Most of the people I know don’t like Baco – it always seems to be too something to people and as one person once said to me “It’s foxy but not in a good way.” But when David Churchill of the LCBO told me to go back to Willow Springs and try this homegrow ...

Unity Wine 2002 Chardonnay

At first we thought it a little closed, but then again maybe it was just too cold (note to self: look at that fridge setting) … as the wine warmed, there was an enjoyable fruitiness along with citrus smells to the wine – the taste was exactly as the nose ...

Unity Wine 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon-Merlot

The Cab Sauv-Merlot yielded more interesting comments – along with a pleasant fruity nose upon first snort, we discovered something even more interesting upon repeated swirling and sniffing: “HP Sauce” – was the way one panel member described the peppery ...

Twin Pines Cidery Russet Scrumpy

“A scrumpy is an unfined and unfiltered cider. Basically, it’s cloudy; it’s the way they would have been drinking ciders a hundred plus years ago, because they didn’t have the ways and means to filter like we do today,” explained Mike Vansteenkiste (owne ...

Twin Pines Cidery Hammer Bent Perry

I have tried the Sir Williams Perry – a cider made from pears – sold at the LCBO, and I can say without a doubt that this Perry puts the English version to shame. “They mass produce theirs,” says Mike Vansteenkiste, owner of Twin Pines, “ours is made in ...

Twin Pines Cidery Hammer Bent Hard Cider

This is the classic taste of cider with its crisp fresh apple taste, made with four different types of apples (Northern Spy, Golden Russet, Ida Red and Jonagold). Owners Mike and Mark Vansteenkiste did a number of fermenting tests before coming up with t ...

Twin Pines Cidery 2008 Iced Cider

There are two ways to make iced cider, one is by letting the apples freeze on the tree (a la icewine), the other is to stick the juice in a freezer after having harvested and pressed it at the usual time. “We chose the latter because we didn’t like the r ...

Southbrook Framboise D’or

Southbrook has long been known for their fruit wines, especially their flagship Framboise, which has won medals all over the world. It’s a delicious fruit wine that also makes for a great topping on ice cream, in vinegrettes, and is incredibly versatile ...

Southbrook 2004 Southbrook White

Vidals… they’re a dime-a-dozen in Ontario, from table wines to semi-sweets, late harvests to our luscious icewine, everybody’s making one in some form or another – but finding one that really stands out is a challenge. Enter Southbrook’s 2004 Southbrook ...

Southbrook 2004 Barrel Fermented Chardonnay

Southbrook has always been known for their award winning Triomphe (Reserve) line of Chardonnays, but this little barrel-fermented beauty shows they are making great Chardonnay at both ends of the spectrum. With the wine making team of Steve Byfield and A ...

Southbrook 2003 Vidal Ice Wine

Here's an absolute stunner that you should let sit on your rack and let it age a bit. Southbrook has produced an ice wine that has been aged in, appropriately, Canadian Oak. Honeyed nose and great lingering finish. Currently the wine drinks well with e ...

Southbrook 2002 Cabernet Merlot

Steve Byfield is probably one of the best up-and-coming Ontario winemakers I have met. His wines consistently are of both high quality and standards and, what’s more, they are beginning to win awards. This ’02 is no exception. The nose has plenty of wo ...

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