Niagara Peninsula Wine

Interesting ... I've had some Meritage wines from Niagara peninsula where the Cab Franc really shows but I'll let you know after I taste a few this weekend if the 07 vintage was weakish. However, with my California bias...

@Isuttell ... Thanks for the recommendations ... saw your other thread but didn't see your reply here.

Some favorites from Saturday's Taste the Season tour (I visited 11 wineries in Niagara-on-the-Lake): Konzelmann Estate Winery's 2007 Sparking Riesling Methode Cuvee Close (and I don't usually care for whites);...

Sunnybrook Farm Estate Winery in Niagara-on-the-Lake makes some good fruit wines. At Saturday's Taste of the Season event, they served a iced cherry. It tasted like a prize-winning pie. The mix of cherries made it...

Yep, not at all like cidre. The beer's definitely better in Britain than the cider...

DM - British Cider is more like beer, at least the stuff I've had.

@Philip ... no worries. I need to get out to Montreal at some point and hope I can make the trip to visit them. @dmcker ... they are definitely going upscale and trying to be more like a Burgundy house. wine is...

Philip (and sorry, John, I'm not attempting to hijack the thread), have you tried Reisetbauer Apfel Cuvee Sparkling Apple Wine? Very well done, from a guy in Austria who knows surprisingly well how to make fruit wines....

Thanks for telling me that after the fact. Will try to swing a visit if I'm ever there again.

They are in Quebec ... http://www.clos-saint-denis.qc.ca/ You should have visited them when you went to the Quebec Liquor Board!