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Creekside & Cuvée

A huge congratulations to all of our friends on the peninsula for an outstanding Cuvée 2010! It was a great night at the Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls It turns out that winemakers clean up rather well for black tie events. We only usually see you all in scrubby wine-stained apparel, so we apologize if [...]

Wine Update: 2001 Signature Grand Meritage (1500mL)

In preparation for our brand new, shiny Creekside Cellar Club, the winemaking team dug up a special treat to offer from our Library stash.  We found two dozen 1500mL bottles of our 2001 Signature Grand Meritage (ie. Reserve goodness) just sitting there begging to be shared. Knowing that our 750mL Reserve bottlings were still holding [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]