This is a lovely wine with a good bit of acidity, some green apple flavors, and some oak. The wine for my tastes is more like a Sauvigon Blanc than a Pinot Gris. No real peach in the taste with a hint of an orange peal tangy/bitterness to it. I enjoyed the wine. Not bad [...]

If your expecting a California style Merlot with lots of plum on the tastes, then this wine is not for you. It is good, with a medium finish but terroir in this case is dominant and this for my pallette has more Cab Sauv than Merlot flavors. Not a bad wine, but I won’t be [...]

As most of you know a Shiraz and a Syrah are the same grape, so what’s the difference? It’s all about style. For me Syrah tends to be a more elegant refined, smooth wine. A Shiraz tends to be a more edgey wine with lots of pepper on the finish. Each style has it’s place [...]

This is a lovely smack on varietal Chenin. This one is a mild flavored one with a bit of sweetness and a bit of crispness.  I get a bit of that “Sauterne” like flavor. I had it with a nice peice of pan fried Cod and went well. Kanu  is still my fav Chenin but [...]

Jason and I were out at Ki last night (my favorite sushi restaraunt by the way) and imbibed this 2007 Stratus Wildass Reisling. Looks like its unfortunately not at the LCBO. This was yummy. Lots of complexity, bang on Niagara Reisling , a touch of minerality and quite refreshing. It went perfectly with the sushi! [...]

I try extremely hard not to use this blog or anything else I contribute to as a forum for negativity or ‘ranting’. Too many blogs are simply verbal diarrhea for whatever the blogger feels is peeving him/her off at that fleeting moment. This will unfortunately be one of those. Apologies in advance. Last night Mrs [...]

With Mrs. Cwg and I running out of room in the Wine Fridge/Cellar we decided it would be a great time to have one of our dessert wines to ‘make room’. After perusing the collection I decided to grab our 2004 Riesling Icewine that seemed to be darkening by the day over the past few [...]

We have returned from our Italian jaunt and Mrs CWG and I are recovering nicely (minus the whole ‘work’ thing). We spent most of our stay in Rome drinking and eating well beyond our expectations. We generally had “vino di casa” (house wine) whenever we ordered lunch, with a half-liter being between 4 and 6 [...]

Sometimes terroir can be so dominant in the flavors of the wine. This is definitely the case here. The wine tastes more like their Zinfandel and little like a Merlot. It’s not a bad wine, don’t get me wrong, just don’t expect it to have varietal tastes … Description from Winecurrent.com This is quite flavourful [...]

A lovely middle of the road chard with some butteryness, some oak and some green apple minerality as you would expect from New Zealand. Quite a good wine with nice complexity. The winecurrent descrption below I found pretty accurate. I would buy it again. Right now, for the money, my favorite Chard is Kendall Jackson Vintner’s [...]