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June 6 Vintages Release
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Kir Yianni Xinomavro Rosé 2025
Dry, Fresh, Bright, Ripe*** (90 points)
BEST BUY - $19.95 - Vintages #39595
This attractive Macedonian 100% Xinomavro rose from northern Greece as a bright very pale salmon colour. Bright, fresh, faintly spicy, floral, ripe, raspberry nose with hints of minerality. Dry, medium bodied, fresh, raspberry-nectarine flavours with a lingering, crisp, refreshing finish. This very tasty, crowd-pleaser spent 3-months on the lees increasing its complexity and mouthfeel. Delicious now, it will even improve with some additional bottle aging.
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June 6 $19.95 Crowd Pleasing French Red
Domaine Lefage Bastide Miraflors Vieilles Vignes Syrah Grenache 2023
Bright, Ripe, Plummy-Back-Cherry *** (90-points)
BEST BUY - $19.95 - Vintages #39595
This tasty, versatile, crowd-pleaser has a fairly deep purple colour and an attractive, ripe, plum-cassis-black-cherry nose. Dry, medium bodied, bright, ripe, plum-black-cherry-cassis flavours are followed up by a lingering, slightly spicy, faintly cedary finish. This blend of 70% Syrah (in concrete tanks) and 30% Grenache (in 600 litre oak barrels) has 15% alcohol and under 4 g /L residual sugar with a new lot number L256008B on the lower part of the glass bottle. This June 6th release is the 21st Vintages appearance to date.
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Celebrating Ontario Chardonnay
Bachelder L'Ardoise
Niagara
Chardonnay 2024
Elegant, Ripe, Lemon-Apple Meringue *** (91-points) - $26.95
This new release really hits the spot - medium straw colour, the nose is quite intense and faintly spicy with ripe, youthful, lemon-apple meringue aromas accompanied by gently toasty, mineral notes. Dry, medium-plus bodied, nicely structured, very bright, fresh, ripe, lemon-apple-pear meringue flavours with a long, lingering, harmonious, minerally, toast-tinged finish. Great with poultry, roasted vegetables and/or seafood.
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May 9 Vintages Release
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Surviving 50 years in a 6º C Cellar
Last Fall a bottle of 1975 Chateau-Gai Gamay Beaujolais sold for a world-record $1,000 at a Waddintons auction. Three bottlesof 1975 were opened last October and were tasted by dozens in attendance at a celebration of life for the winemaker Paul Bosc Sr. All 3bottles stored at the ultra-cold temperature were in perfect condition.
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