2014 Cave Spring Estate Bottled Chardonnay Musqué – Vintages 246579 – $16.95 – **** – Chardonnay Musqué is something special that you don’t see very often. It’s light and crisp with apple and citrus notes. This wine has everything you expect from an Ontario Chardonnay but there is this floral quality that just pokes it’s way through. This wine has a nice creamy texture on the mid palate and the finish is bright, crisp and clean revealing a nice mineral note. This is definitely not your buttery chardonnay. The creamy texture comes from time on lees and offers a little depth to a wine that for all intents and purposes is light and crisp.
2013 Coyote’s Run Red Paw Pinot Noir – Vintages 79228 – $24.95 – ****+ – This is easily my favorite Pinot Noir from the Niagara Peninsula way from the bench. Every year this wine comes out I smile at the price because I can afford this wine. Value aside it’s good juice! This strikes a perfect balance between fruit flavours and a nice earthiness to the finish. The nose offers up violet aromas and the flavours are Cherry and Raspberry. The finish offers up nice acidity and leaves you with damp earthiness that shifts its way to floral. Wines like these can help us erase “good” vintage and “bad” vintage from the Ontario wine lexicon. Coming from a cooler summer I would say that this is one of the best vintages of the Red Paw if not the best I have ever tasted.
