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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 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 ...

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 ...

Sunnybrook 2010-Tasting - NV Spiced Apple

This is Christmas time in a glass, a blend of apple wine and five spices that includes cinnamon, nutmeg, and all-spice, but just like the good Colonel’s recipe, no more secrets of the blend can be revealed. These spices are then infused into the wine mak ...

Sunnybrook 2010 Chocolate Embrace

This is one of those chocolate and fruit wine blends you may have heard about. This one mixes it up with blueberries and has quite a bit of that chocolaty goodness mixed in and its especially noticeable on the finish. This one's for chocolate lovers, ca ...

Sunnybrook 2009 Bosc Pear

Pears have got to be one of my favourite fruits. And Bosc my fav of the favourites, so I come to a glass of Bosc pear wine with a little bias. But truth be known, I find most Bosc pear wines lack the impact a good Bosc can deliver, so I’m usually open to ...

Sunnybrook 2007-Tasting - NV Spiced Apple

It’s been awhile since I reviewed a fruit wine, so I decided to storm back with a vengeance with this one. Sunnybrook, Canada’s first fruit winery established in 1993 – has had a few years to perfect a variety of wonderful fruit wines – but none as delic ...

Stoney Ridge 2005 Cranberry Wine

Cranberry juice … God’s gift to the urinary track, or so we are told. I’m sure you have friends that swear by it, I know I do; but it has to be pure cranberry juice, not that “cocktail stuff”. Me, I like that cocktail stuff (you know, that mix of juices ...

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 ...

Smith & Wilson 2005 Three Belles

Cherries … you read about there presence in many wines: smells of, or tastes of, bing cherries, sour cherries, sweet cherries … but what about a wine made from cherries – Montmorency cherries for that matter … then there would be no doubt about the taste ...

Sandbanks 2011 Love Cassis Aperitivo

The colour is very pretty to look at, so its a great Valentine's day gift. There is a definite cassis note to this wine but it's not too tart because of the sweetness that is also most definitely there ... but it's all very well balanced, probably due to ...

Rosewood Estates 2008 Mead Noir

Mead with fruit flavouring interests me, but I don’t think I have ever tried a mead with wine flavouring … Now that kind of combination interests me even more. First thing you’ll notice about this wine is the great salmon colour, which is derived from a ...

Rosewood Estates 2007 Mon Cherie

“Mon Cherie Amour, you’re the only one that I adore.” Not sure Stevie Wonder ever intended his lyrics to be about a mead / sour cherry concoction, but if he ever tasted it I’m sure he wouldn’t have minded. This is a pure summertime fun wine if ever ther ...

Rosewood Estates 2006 Mon Cherie

Fans of the Harvest Gold, or even non-mead drinkers, might want to check out this little beauty … same sugar code level as the Gold (2), but this one adds a beautiful layer of fruitiness to both the nose and palate. Made with honey wine (mead) and sour c ...

Rosewood Estates 2006 Harvest Gold

Niagara’s first meadery, and if you’ve never tried mead, I suggest you do so, and now is the perfect opportunity – it truly is a different taste experience. The nose gives off aromas of floral and bubblegum … in the mouth, the bubblegum turns tropical in ...

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