Browsing all posts in March, 2009.

Scarlett: Champagne or Shiraz?

Scarlett Johansson was just named the “ambassador” for Champagne house Moet & Chandon last week. The first celebrity face to front the world renowned bubbly, M&C cited her “glamourous”, “spontaneous” nature as making her an “obvious choice”. Details here: http://ow.ly/1tGi. It’s not that we disagree per se, Scarlett makes for a classy ambassador, particularly for [...]

2006 Reserve Reds Get Short-listed

With the coming of spring also arrives the time to start looking into the depths of the cellar for our blockbuster reserve red tastings.  With the 05 Reserves out on the shelves and hauling in the hardware, the pressure is on to produce even better Bordeaux blends from the follow-up 2006 vintage. More elegant and [...]

Yvonne Makes The Standard

Creekside cellar staff aren’t exactly camera-phobic, so when the St. Catharines Standard dropped by to take some pictures of the annual spring ritual of vine pruning they weren’t hard-pressed to find volunteers willing to put their mug in the paper.  Cellar hand Yvonne, armed with sunglasses and pruning shears, volunteered to have some shots taken [...]

Demi-Muids

With the release of the Undercurrent 2006 Headless Shiraz fast approaching (April 4th), it seems apropos to have a look at how it got the moniker “headless”. The 2006 vintage marked the first year that Creekside purchase a demi-muid barrel, a larger capacity vessels of about 620L compared to the standard French barrique of ~225L. [...]

Kudos from Five Rows

Received a very nice congrats on the Cuvée wins from fellow winemaker Wes Lowrey, who posted on his Five Rows Winemaker blog that: Rob Power and Craig McDonald have won so many awards for Creekside Estate Winery that I’m beginning to lose count. He also spoke very fondly of his family’s on-going connection to Creekside [...]