Peller Estates Ice Cuvée Rosé – Vintages 113035 – $34.95 – **** – You don’t really expect a wine to transport you back to grade school when you taste it … but that’s what happened here. This wine tastes like fruit roll ups! This is absolutely not a bad thing. This is an off dry sparkling with candied strawberry and raspberry. Beautifully structured with nice acidity on the finish and bubbles helping to cleanse the palate so the sweetness in the glass doesn’t overpower. This will hopefully be making an appearance in my home for Thanksgiving but I don’t know if I’ll have the patience to keep the bottle that long it’s just too good.
2013 Cave Spring Estate Bottled Chardonnay Musqué – Vintages 246579 – $15.95 – ***1/2+ – I really wish we saw more Musqué in the province. The wineries that do handle the grape do it very well. The nose is white flower and citrus with flavours that match. Dry with nice crisp acidity on the finish. This will make a great match to spicy cuisine of all sorts whether it’s hot wings or szechuan cuisine.
Have you tried Hinterland Ancestral? That reminded me of candy floss or bubble gum and not in a good way.
I would say that candy floss and bubble gum are completely apt notes on the ancestral.
To be fair, we had the Ancestral at a tasting where the wines were not cold enough and the sparkling wines were starting to go flat. Others have raved about this wine so I guess I’m in the minority that didn’t like it.