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Red

2019 SpearHead Pinot Noir Golden Retreat Vineyard

Okanagan Valley more

5/11/2024 - Wildgrant wrote: NR

Dark fruit and rather tart. I'm not sure if we should have left this a lot longer to smooth out or not.

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Red

2012 Burrowing Owl Meritage

Okanagan Valley VQA Red Bordeaux Blend more

5/13/2024 - nanoose wrote: NR

Last bottle of a fantastic wine and excellent vintage. Had with family on moms day

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White

2021 No. 99 Wayne Gretzky Estates Pinot Grigio

Niagara Peninsula VQA more

5/13/2024 - wdlohr wrote: 88 points

light golden yellow, aroma that's sweet of honey, tastes some sweet but more thin and limp, tasty for the price thus the rating

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Red

2015 The Foreign Affair Dream

Niagara Peninsula VQA Red Bordeaux Blend more

5/13/2024 - GINYCollector wrote: 90 points

Black fruit aromas. Medium garnet going to tawny. Tastes of fruit and tobacco. Bold body and tannin. Dry with a long finish. Enjoyable with my steak.

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Red

2015 Lunessence Crescendo MMXV

Okanagan Valley Red Bordeaux Blend more

5/13/2024 - CDT Likes this wine: 89 points

No formal tasting note at this time.
This bottle was opened after the end of the drinking window recently changed in CellarTracker from 2028 to 2022.
On night #2 the wine still has good flavour, structure, acidity & tannins to last a couple of more years at least.

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White

2020 Big Head Riesling

Beamsville Bench VQA more

5/13/2024 - Jonnhy99 wrote: 86 points

Wine tasting event at Dear Grain Bakery and bottle shop. The first one was the Big Head dry Riesling, which had a creamy texture and hints of grass, peach, and candied ginger. It had a long finish.

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Red

2022 Big Head Red # 8

Niagara-on-the-Lake VQA Red Blend more

5/13/2024 - Jonnhy99 wrote: 87 points

The second wine was the Big red #8, which was a Bordeaux blend made in appassimento style from two different vintages, 2019 and 2021. It was composed of 49% Merlot, 48% Cab Franc, and 3% Petit Verdot.

This wine had the best aromas among all the wines tasted tonight, with notes of cherry, strawberry, plum, perfume, and bell pepper. The flavors were similar but without the pepper taste, and it had soft tannins and medium acidity.

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White - Sweet/Dessert

2014 Jackson-Triggs Gewürztraminer Icewine Proprietors' Grand Reserve

Niagara Peninsula VQA more

5/10/2024 - flussier Likes this wine: 92 points

Belle robe orange ambrée. Vin tropical sur des arômes de mangues, abricot, ananas, compote de fruits. Très beau vin liquoreux, belle sucrosité et long en bouche.

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White

2022 Meyer Family Vineyards Chardonnay McLean Creek Road Vineyard

Okanagan Valley VQA more

5/12/2024 - SadEdjo Likes this wine: 92 points

energetic pure fruit with deft oak, flinty minerality. Excellent QPR

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Red

2018 Huff Estates Cabernet Franc Old Vines South Bay Vineyard

Prince Edward County VQA more

5/12/2024 - OttawaB Likes this wine: 90 points

Drinking nicely. Good balance. Acidity a bit high, but nothing unusual for cool climate wines. Good ripeness to the fruit. Getting red berries, cherries, blackberries, baking spices. Some herbal qualities, and a touch of saline minerality. Also getting some cedar and graphite. All in all, a tasty medium bodied wine. Not a lot of depth or heaviness to the wine. A bit of tanginess and some black tea bitterness. This is not a sweet fruited wine overall, but there is some sweetness to the fruit (but a dry wine). Dusty smooth tannins on the finish. This is not a big wine, definitely a cool climate wine on the lighter mouthfeel side.

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Red

2021 1 Mill Road Pinot Noir Block 2

Naramata Bench more

5/12/2024 - df1962 wrote: 91 points

PnD let air for 2hrs.

Consistent with previous notes. Noticing the smokiness more tonight throws off the balance.

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Rosé

2023 Little Engine Mariafeld

Naramata Bench Rosé Blend more

5/11/2024 - GuanYu Likes this wine: 88 points

Medium rose gold. Bright red fruits, vanilla cake, candied cherry. Quite pleasant rose wine from Okanagan.

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Red

2023 Little Engine Pinot Noir Elevation

Okanagan Valley more

5/11/2024 - GuanYu wrote: 85 points

Ruby red with purple rim. Bright red fruits, and spices. Medium light to medium bodied, medium acidity, medium tannin, light structure, medium alcohol and short finish. Fresh and straight forward. Drink it chilled. Reminded me of Beaujolais nouveau.

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White

2023 Little Engine Chardonnay Elevation

Naramata Bench more

5/11/2024 - GuanYu Does not like this wine: 82 points

Pale yellow gold with green tint. Citrus, melon, mild butter, herbs, metallic and white pepper. Medium-light to medium bodied, medium acidity, light structure, medium alcohol and short finish. Tasted cheap.and bland. Best for cocktail mixing or cooking.

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White - Sweet/Dessert

2017 Cave Spring Riesling Select Late Harvest

Lincoln Lakeshore VQA more

5/11/2024 - Mandamus Likes this wine: NR

Don Alfonso Classic Pairing (Don Alfonso, Toronto): Very nice. An excellent example of Noble Rot done well. Excellent value. (With curated food pairings in long meal; notes unfortunately recorded after, so no detailed notes; not scored.)

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Rosé

2023 1 Mill Road Pinot Noir Rosé

Okanagan Valley more

5/12/2024 - df1962 wrote: 90 points

PnP

Clear coral pink.

Clean. Medium intensity with aroma of watermelon raspberry sage salt and red pepper.

Dry. Medium alcohol. Medium body. Medium acidity. Medium intensity with flavours of watermelon cranberry and sage.

Medium (+) finish. Good. Drink now and over next three years. Great fruit herbal and mineral notes. Bracing and serious

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White

2021 Jackson-Triggs Riesling Grand Reserve

Niagara Peninsula VQA more

5/12/2024 - Scapolite wrote: 85 points

Medium straw in colour with a rainy, translucent rim and a bit of legs.

Fruit forward on the nose with the typical riesling petro aroma, along with a bit of oak influence. Petroleum, lemons, limes, pineapples, white peaches, and a hint of honey.

Fruit forward on the palate with petroleum and a tiny bit of sweetness, with notes identical to the nose as described above. Medium bodied with a pretty good amount of acidity, with a medium fruity finish.

While this is one-dimensional and lacks complexity, this is a pretty good everyday wine.

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White

2019 Léon Courville St. Pepin Reserve

Eastern Townships more

5/12/2024 - kosmik Likes this wine: 87 points

Très beau.
Belle palette aromatique.
Un peu court peut-être.
Et cher.
ABS 88
RQP -1

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Red

2021 Vignoble du Marathonien Vinifera

Quebec Red Blend more

5/12/2024 - kosmik Likes this wine: 88 points

13,9 % d’alcool indiqué sur la contre-étiquette. Pour un vin québécois c’est plutôt rare!
Beaucoup de fruit, bonne acidité pour soutenir le tout, rappelle la Loire où le Cab Franc bordelais. L’alcool est présent au nez et il est suggéré de le servir rafraîchi.
En absolu c’est un très beau vin québécois.
Et pour 18,40$ c’est un excellent RQP!
ABS 87
RQP +1

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White

2017 Domaine du Nival Vidal Matière à discussion

Montérégie more

5/12/2024 - kosmik Does not like this wine: NR

Bu sur 3 jours.
Très funky les 3 jours.
Nous a semblé aqueux, étrange…
Peut-être une bouteille défectueuse?
Notre dernière 750 ml. Reste des magnums…

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Red

2020 Trius Red The Icon

Niagara Peninsula VQA Red Bordeaux Blend more

5/12/2024 - Jonnytheneedle Likes this wine: 89 points

not bad at all, decent body and weight, maybe keep for 2 plus years before drinking, still got some tannins and acidity

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Red

2017 Domaine Queylus Cabernet Franc Réserve du Domaine

Lincoln Lakeshore VQA more

5/12/2024 - Jonnytheneedle Likes this wine: 92 points

what's not to like? well done! great flavour and body, drinking very nicely.could keep for a few years still.

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Red

2020 Southbrook Winery Petit Verdot

Four Mile Creek VQA more

5/12/2024 - Rodenbach99 Likes this wine: 90 points

On connait le petit verdot pour les assemblages bordelais où il apporte un côté épicé où le cabernet apporte la structure et le merlot la rondeur.
Ici c'est 100% petit verdot cultivé en biodynamie. Tant le nez que la bouche sont superbes avec des épices, des fruits rouges, du poivre, cerise, cannelle, chocolat, framboise le tout sur un gâteau forêt noir. La vin est passablement puissant et la finale est tannique. Une belle découverte d'Ontario.

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Red

2006 Hester Creek Merlot Reserve

Okanagan Valley VQA more

5/12/2024 - sativa Likes this wine: 94 points

absolutely amazing. It has held up well for its age. I try to test how long normal BC wines can last and this one definitely did well. Starting to settle into its secondary flavours, moved just outside its prime window and beginning to settle into decline. Unless you are trying to see how far you can take this wine, consume now for maximum enjoyment. Aromatics are still there, of brown sugar, dark fruit - blackberry, and jam. Still has some red notes on the pallet. Oak is integrated well.

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Red

2013 Burrowing Owl Merlot

Okanagan Valley VQA more

5/12/2024 - sativa Likes this wine: 93 points

This wine is in its Prime, will likely hold this window for another few years. Still vibrant and fresh, with nicely integrated oak and minerality. Dark Fruits on the pallet and nose, with a small hint of fresh grass. Full bodied. Will last for at least another ten years, but in its prime now. There was a little bit of sediment nothing obscene.

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