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Another Reason to Visit Local Wineries This Summer.

Gary Killops — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:54:35 +0000

Visiting wineries to taste local wines, tour the vineyards and purchase some excellent wines that you can not buy at the LCBO is a good enough reason to get in your car and head out to one of Essex County’s wineries. Now there is another reason.

Erie Shore Vineyard and Sprucewood Shores Estate Winery have plans for your Sunday’s this summer.

Every Sunday during July and August, in the At Erie Shore Vineyard pavilion enjoy talented local musicians while taking in the Erie Shore lake breezes, vineyard view and wine by the glass.

The pavillion will be open between from 12-5pm, music from 2-4pm every Sunday. Cost will be a donation to local musicians and wine wll be available to purchase by the glass.

Just down the road at Sprucewood Shores Estate Winery, they will have live entertainment on the patio and grass overlooking beautiful Lake Erie and cooking demonstrations begining at noon. Featured entertainment every Sunday between 12 – 4PM. There is no charge for this. Wine by the glass, food samples, and picnic baskets will be available for purchase every Sunday starting July 4th and ending September 13th

Happy Easter

Gary Killops — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:40:03 +0000

Easter dinner is always a big event around our house. Perhaps not on the same level as Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner however it is right up there.

Friends and family often ask me what wine I will have on the table during these big feast. I usually give this a good deal of thought and consideration before making the wine selections.

So what red and wine wines did we have on our table today?

The red was D’Angelo Estate Old Vines Foch Reserve 2005. (See Tuesday’s Essex Wine Review for my thoughts on this wine). We recently had D’Angelo Estate Old Vines Foch 2002 and loved it so the 2005 reserve was a good pick. By the way the D’Angelo’s 2005 Old Vines Foch Reserve was a Double Gold award winner at the ”All Canadian Wine Championship“. Another good reason to select this wine.

The white wine selection was Erie Shore 2006 Unoaked Chardonnay. Wanda and I like this wine, we had it on the table at Christmas, it was good then so why change a good thing. One thing about the Chardonnay, I like it best slightly chilled, actually almost room temperature. For me, that is when this wine taste the best.

Gary

Cab Franc Head to Head

Gary Killops — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:01:47 +0000

I was in the mood to have a bit of fun today and do something that I haven’t don but have been thinking about doing for some time now. Today just seemed to be the right day to do it.

On my way home I stopped by the Roundhouse LCBO and picked up two bottles of Cabernet Franc. The two I picked up were Mastronardi Cabernet Franc 2006 and Erie Shore Cabernet Franc 2006. Both are the same vintage, both are VQA wines from Lake Erie North Shore region, both are for sale at the LCBO for about the same price.

One final thing before I began my taste comparison. Calabria is a great little pizza restaurant in Cottam and they have a pepperoni and cheese special on Wednesday. Both of these wines taste great with pizza so I ordered one for my tasting evening.

Back and forth between the two wines it was hard to say that one was better than the other. In the end I decided that they are both very similar in taste. Both have a nice green bell pepper taste up front and both paired perfectly with the pizza.

Good wine and good food. What a great evening.

Gary