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First Fruit of 2009 Harvest

As announced on Twitter, the winner of the “first grape variety to be picked at Creekside in 2009″ goes to:  Pinot Gris.   Two separate blocks of Gris were harvested on October the 1st. We had a poll running for a couple of weeks to see if any intrepid guessers could nail down the right answer, [...]

Vineyard Profile: Creekside Estate Vineyard

Immediately bordering the winery buildings on Fourth Avenue and providing a very dramatic (and very tasty) view as you come down the driveway, is the Creekside Estate Vineyard. We like to think of it as the quietly consistent, patient older sibling to our Queenston Road Vineyard on the St. David’s Bench. With about 13 acres under vine, the Creekside site does its thing, year in and year out, with little showboating and few demands. It is, to be honest, a little taken for granted. We expect the fruit to be good — it always has been– so we very rarely worry, fuss, or fret.

Wine Profile: 2008 Pinot Grigio

Look, we’ll be honest…we wish we had tales of struggling ferments, crazy blending trials, and other tidbits of insider information, but this wine all but made itself. Clean fruit, clean careful ferment, clean filtration…just plain clean, crisp, varietally correct aromatics and a really refreshing palate.

2008 Single Vineyard Whites in Bottle

The first bottling run of 2008 vintage wine might have gone to Pinot Grigio (now available for sale at the winery!), but May 7th and 8th saw the bottling of two equally as exciting products: the 2008 Butler’s Grant Riesling and the 2008 Queenston Road Vineyard Chardonnay. The 2008 BG Riesling marks the return of [...]

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 [...]