Cellar Door Holiday 2023
Cheers to 2024! Here are four lovely wines to enjoy over the holidays. Each is paired with a recipe that can be shared as an appetizer or made into decadent sides for any meal.
Corrine’s Food Pairings:
GAMAY BLANC DE NOIR 2021 WITH:
Clams with Sparkling Wine Lemon Butter and Sourdough Toasts
WINE CLUB EXCLUSIVE FUMÉ BLANC 2022 WITH:
Lobster, Crab and Shrimp Dumplings with Lime and Miso Aioli
The lobster, crab and shrimp dumplings are a wonderful pairing with the Fumé Blanc. The saltiness in the miso aioli brings out more passionfruit and candied lime in the wine. The sweet lobster and crab meat complement the vanilla and spice.
CABERNET FRANC 2022 WITH:
Wild Blueberry and Lamb Sausage Rolls
RESERVE MERITAGE 2020 WITH:
Caramelized Shallot, Bacon and Blue Cheese Tarte Tartin
This tarte tatin will impress your guests! The caramelized onions bring out lots of charred wood, vanilla bean and warm spice in the Meritage. The walnuts and blue cheese soften the tannins while leaving lots of cherry compote, black forest cake and spice on your palate.
Wines included in this shipment
Tasting Notes
Fine bubbles in the glass. Aromas of lemon peel, almonds, and white currants with notes of minerality. On the palate the mousse is fine with bracing acidity and flavours of lemon, fresh raspberries and juicy red apple. The finish is long, dry and refreshing with lingering flavours of tart, red raspberries.
Enjoy this delicious Sparkling Gamay on it own or as the perfect complement to bloomy-rind cheese or a chilled seafood platter.
Serve chilled at 5-8° C.
$30.15
APPELLATION
VQA Creek Shores
VINEYARD
100% Whitty Vineyard
GRAPE VARIETY
100% Gamay
BRIX AT HARVEST
16
ALCOHOL CONTENT
12.5%
RESIDUAL SUGAR
3.2 grams - 0 dosage grams/Litre
Tasting Notes
Intense notes of ripe blueberries, blue plums, black raspberries and a touch of warm spice. On the palate, it is medium-bodied with soft tannins and flavours of plums, cinnamon stick, blueberry pie filling, black liquorice, cedar and touch of smoke with baking spice. The finish is long with refreshing acidity
$22.15
APPELLATION
VQA Ontario
VINEYARD
Select Ontario Vineyards
GRAPE VARIETY
100% Cabernet Franc
BRIX AT HARVEST
20.4
ALCOHOL CONTENT
12.5%
RESIDUAL SUGAR
4.5 grams/Litre
Tasting Notes
Intensely aromatic with aromas of candied peach, fresh lime, passionfruit, sweet spice, and wet stone. Layers of fruit on the palate with flavours of white grapefruit, key lime custard, guava, white peach, and hints of vanilla. Lots of minerality with a refreshing finish
$30.15
APPELLATION
VQA Niagara Peninsula
VINEYARD
Select Niagara Peninsula
GRAPE VARIETY
100% Sauvignon Blanc
BRIX AT HARVEST
19.5
ALCOHOL CONTENT
12.5%
RESIDUAL SUGAR
2.4 grams/Litre
Tasting Notes
Dark purple in the glass with intense notes of black currants, ripe cherry, black forest cake and clove. On the palate, it is full-bodied with chalky tannins and flavours of cherry compote, kirsch, raspberry balsamic, bitter dark chocolate, charred rosemary, cigar box, and vanilla. The finish is long and complex with lingering tannins.
$50.15
APPELLATION
VQA Creek Shores
VINEYARD
40% June’s Vineyard
GRAPE VARIETY
23% Cabernet Sauvignon
BRIX AT HARVEST
23.4
ALCOHOL CONTENT
13.5%
RESIDUAL SUGAR
4.3 grams/Litre
