Appellation: VQA Niagara Peninsula Varietal Composition: 45% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc Bottled: 84 cases. Drinkability: Drink or Hold [As of Nov. 09] This Meritage is a blend of 20% Cabernet Franc, 45% Cabernet Sauvignon and 35% Merlot from top vineyards in the Niagara Peninsula. The ‘dripper’ technique was employed on 20% of [...]
Appellation: VQA Niagara Peninsula Varietal Composition: 100% Vidal Bottled:Bottled November 2008. 182 cases. Drinkability: Drink or Hold [as of Nov. 2009] Premium wines often come from the humblest of beginnings. Unlike their cousins (picked, coddled and cozy, in the warm days of fall), icewine grapes are subjected to cruel and unusual punishment. Left hanging well [...]
Appellation: VQA St. David’s Bench Vineyard Designation: Queenston Road Vineyard Varietal Composition: 100% Chardonnay Bottled: 245 cases. May 7th, 2009 Drinkability: Drink or Hold (as of Sept 09) Determined to prove that white grapes can stand up to the big reds of the St. David’s Bench, our 2008 Chardonnay is hitting the streets to spread [...]
Appellation: VQA Niagara Peninsula Varietal Composition: 60% Merlot, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon Bottled:Bottled August 13, 2007. 320 cases. Drinkability: Drink or Hold [As of Jan. 09] The concept of Meritage would seem a simple equation: blending Cabernet and Merlot into balanced, age-worthy wine. Tasting trials show this notion to be a dangerous oversimplification of a process [...]
Appellation: VQA St. David’s Bench (appellation information) Varietal Composition: 100% Shiraz Bottled: September 8th, 2008. 115 cases. Drinkability: Drink or Hold (as of Aug 09) Blind flight tastings of 2006 vintage Shiraz for Broken Press selection left the reserve stores from our St. David’s Bench vineyard clearly divided along stylistic lines. On one side sat [...]
Appellation: VQA Niagara Peninsula Varietal Composition: 100% Pinot Gris Bottled: 3250 cases. Drinkability: Drink or Hold (as of June 09) An insatiable social butterfly, our 2008 Pinot Grigio wants it all. It wishes to be enjoyed alone, it desires to be paired with food, it needs to be the centre of attention! Those who join [...]
Appellation: VQA Twenty Mile Bench (appellation information) Varietal Composition: 100% Riesling Bottled: August 22nd, 2008. 60 cases. Drinkability: Drink or Hold (as of June 09) The 2007 Reserve is a limited bottling crafted from an experimental planting of Riesling dating back to the early 80’s. Keeping with “old world” practices, vines in the NW corner [...]
Appellation: VQA Niagara Peninsula Varietal Composition: 100% Pinot Gris Bottled: September 12th, 2008. 99 cases. Drinkability: Drink or Hold (as of June 09) In contrast to the light, refreshing Pinot Grigio profile of the stainless steel-fermented Estate line, Creekside Reserve shifts gears into a larger-framed, fuller-bodied Pinot Gris style. Vineyard lots showing strong varietal character [...]
Appellation: VQA Niagara Peninsula Varietal Composition:100% Cabernet Sauvignon Bottled: November 1st, 2003. 270 cases. Drinkability:Drink or Hold (as of Apr. 09) The fruit for our 2001 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon was harvested from two vineyards in Niagara-on-the-lake. Fruit lots were vinified in small 800-kg batches using four different yeast strains, then pressed off with ~2 ºBrix [...]
