• The following wine may be purchased online or at the winery—here’s a link—Henry of Pelham Winery—and delivered to your door or you may find product at your local LCBO retail store.

• The following 2021 Speck Bros. ‘Revel’ Cabernet-Baco Noir Dark Red was sourced from the ripest grapes grown in some of the warmest vineyards in the Niagara Peninsula. The grapes were fermented in stainless steel then matured for six months in oak. The price-quality proposition skews in your favour at this price… stock up.

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Speck Bros. ‘Revel’ Cabernet-Baco Noir Dark Red 2021

VQA Ontario $15.95 (575662) 13.0% alcohol

A rich, aromatic nose of gamy notes, exotic spice and a flourish of savoury notes intertwine with expressive ripe cherry notes. It bathes the palate with tangy pizzazz and fresh fruit flavours of black plum, bramble berry and black Bing cherry. This is medium weight with creamy mouthfeel and plenty to like. There’s deft balance, persistent purity of fruit and a lingering lip-smacking finish and aftertaste. Pour with barbecued meats—gourmet sausage, backyard burgers or steak. (Vic Harradine)

• Order the following wines by the case for daily home or office directly online from Kacaba Vineyards with FREE shipping in Ontario on orders of six bottles or more, by phone at 1 866 522-2228 or 1 905 562-5625, or pick up a bottle or case from the winery (curbside pick-up or shop in the boutique it’s open 10 am to 5 pm seven days a week) at 3550 King Street in Vineland ON.

• We’re most appreciative for your continued support and all that the winecurrent.com team do to promote VQA Ontario wines. Should your subscribers like to visit Kacaba Vineyards & Winery after reading your wine reviews, we want to offer them a Buy-One-Get-One discount for wine tasting reservations booked online by using your personalized discount code (case sensitive): WINECURRENT

• Please note that this discount code is only eligible on 2 OR MORE wine tastings per reservation, and must be booked via our website: http://www.exploretock.com/kacabavineyards Please feel free to promote this in your publication as the code is already active.

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Kacaba Vineyards ‘Proprietor’s Block - Escarpment’ Syrah 2019
VQA Niagara Escarpment $35.15 13.8% alcohol
Alluring aromas are sleek and elegant with boysenberry pie, © Ribena and cassis to the fore followed by grilled savoury herbs, soft ripe tannin and plenty of tang-laden palate-fruit flavours of black cherry/berry fruit that lingers on the finish and aftertaste along with 10% Viognier. Give this a go with cassoulet, osso buco or grilled vegetables for vegans. (Vic Harradine)

• The syrah vines that were sourced for the following wine were planted in 1998, making them the oldest syrah vines on site. They were harvested for this wine when they were 21-years-old.

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Kacaba Vineyards ‘Silver Bridge Vineyard - Escarpment’ Syrah 2019
VQA Niagara Escarpment $35.15 14.0% alcohol
Aromas of blueberry, black juicy cherry and piquant spice abound on the nose of this nicely balanced syrah. There are creamy-smooth mouthfuls of deftly balanced and delightfully delicious ambrosia on the lip-smacking finish and aftertaste. Pour alongside grilled steak, beer-can roasted chicken or grilled and mopped pork back ribs with spicy barbecue sauce. (Vic Harradine)

• The following 2020 Kacaba ‘Reserve – Meritage’ was sourced from the dazzling 2020 vintage made up from 40% cabernet sauvignon/35% cabernet franc/25% merlot sourced from the estate vineyards of the renowned VQA Niagara Escarpment.

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Kacaba ‘Reserve – Meritage’ 2020
VQA Niagara Escarpment $60.15 14.8% alcohol
Delightful aromas of cassis, Saskatoon berries, juicy black plum and black Bing cherry waft easily after the gentlest of swirls. A river of palate flavours dominated by piquant spice and wood-smoke along with tangy passionfruit, pie cherry and a smooth and mellow mouthfeel and plenty of pizzazz. This is nicely balanced and dishes up a persistent purity of fruit from cork pop to last drop. Give this a try with Asian eggplant and freshly picked zucchini and a generous helping of fried onions and cooked, minced beef. (Vic Harradine)

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Kacaba ‘Reserve – Cabernet Franc’ 2020
VQA Niagara Escarpment $60.15 14.9% alcohol
Rich, luscious aromas of dark cherry/berry fruit—blueberry, boysenberry, cassis and black juicy Bing cherry juxtaposed with tangy pie cherry. A stream of fruit-driven palate-flavours with the following to the fore—ripe Saskatoon berries, tangy passionfruit, ripe black cherries and plenty of tang and pizzazz underpinned with smooth soft tannin and savoury oak after 19 months of French and American barrel ageing. The finish and aftertaste meld nicely along with svelte tannin. Pour alongside medium-rare skirt steak,

Malivoire Small Lot Pinot Noir 2021

• The following Malivoire Wine Company ‘Small Lot’ Pinot Noir 2021 sourced pinot noir grapes from three Beamsville Bench sites. The blend is 56% Mottiar Vineyard/35% Moira Vineyard/10% Malivoire Estate, with all hand-harvested between September 30th and October 12th, 2021. Most of the grapes were destemmed with 6% held in whole clusters then divided into two lots, one in stainless steel and the other in concrete tanks. The wines were next combined to mature nine months in French oak barrels. After blending, 654 cases were bottled in August, 2022.

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Malivoire Wine Company ‘Small Lot’ Pinot Noir 2021

VQA Beamsville Bench $29.95 12.0% alcohol

When poured in the glass it shines with lightly-hued bright ruby red colour galore. Aromas of earthy notes and red cherry/berry fruit waft easily with the gentlest of swirls. It blankets the palate with delightful fruit-forward flavours of pie cherry, blueberry, black bramble berry and oodles of sharp tang and pizzazz expressed as delightful acidity of rhubarb flavour and Montmorency pie cherry. The finish and aftertaste are lengthy and persistent purity of fruit that is deftly balanced. Pick up an armful and drink now to 2028 with careful cellaring. Pour alongside home-smoked duck breast adorned with home-made mango marmalade. (Vic Harradine)

• The following 2020 Malivoire Wine Company ‘Forgotten Row’ Chardonnay were the last hand-harvested Chardonnay grapes from the estate-owned mature vines of the Moira Vineyard on October 1st, 2020 with the average sugar content of the unfermented grape registering in at 22.6 ° C. This wine was fermented and pressed from destemmed grapes that were fermented in five French oak barrels—one barrel was new, two barrels were second use and two were neutral with monthly bâtonnage—aka lees stirring—for the first five months. Barrels were blended and the wine integrated for a further three months in a large, previously used large oak barrel. The finished wine was bottled after just over a year in oak in December 2021. It is available only at the Malivoire winery that you can access online on their website and have it delivered to your door or by ordering ahead of time and picking it up at the winery. Your call. Drink now to 2028.

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Malivoire Wine Company ‘Forgotten Row’ Chardonnay 2020

VQA Beamsville Bench $34.95 13.0% alcohol
Aromas of buckwheat honey, caramel and baked apple make an appearance on the nose and replay on the palate with a freshly baked apple pie flavour adorned with baking spice, lemon pastille and a tinge of a trick or treat Halloween caramel apple. The mouthfeel is absolutely amazing and creamy-smooth from first sip to last drop as are the fabulous flavours that persist to and through the finish and aftertaste. The 2020 vintage is a dazzling one in virtually all VQA appellations and sub-appellations, especially in Ontario. This may be named the ‘Forgotten Row’, but if you get a chance to taste it, you’ll not forget how wonderful this wine tastes, on its own and/or with pan-seared-in-butter Atlantic salmon. (Vic Harradine)

• The following 2022 Malivoire Wine Company Pinot Gris was hand-harvested September 15th to 18th from mature vines that achieved an average sugar content of 20.6 ° brix of the unfermented sugar in the grapes. Hand-sorted clusters were destemmed and pressed for primary fermentation in stainless steel tank. The new wine settled in tank for four months prior to bottling in January, 2023

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Malivoire Wine Company Pinot Gris 2022

VQA Beamsville Bench $21.95 12.0% alcohol
Aromas of honeydew melon, savoury herbs and notions of piquant citrus—lemon curd and Key lime give way to the palate of Granny Smith apple and grilled and lightly sugared pink grapefruit sections that persist through the finish and aftertaste. Give this a go now to 2026 alongside fish tacos, grilled calamari or a deli platter of mixed sushi. (Vic Harradine)

• Use this link - Rockway Vineyards - to search their winery website for the following and other wines available to you as they will take your order online and deliver to your home, business office or licensed restaurant. You can also phone them as they are open daily 11 am to 6 pm – 1-905-641-5771 or you can email them - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

• The following wines are being released by Rockway Vineyards and you may also find them in the near future on shelves of LCBO retail stores. The oldest hand-harvested vines sought for the following wine were 18-years-old at time of harvest. This wine was settled for 48 hours, during 10 months of oak maturation the wine was fermented in one new French oak barrel while the balance was aged in tank. The entire winemaking team deserves a doff of your and my hat for producing this gem. Give it a go.

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Rockway Vineyards ‘Small Lot’ Chardonnay 2021
VQA Twenty Mile Bench $25.00 13.0% alcohol
Aromas of citrus fruit—orange, lemon and grapefruit are intertwined with leesy notes and an interesting streak of saline on the palate along with persistent fruit-flavours of sweet white nectarine and yellow Mirabelle plum to and through the finish and aftertaste. There is also good balance along with the lip-smacking finish and tang-laden aftertaste. Give this a go alongside roast chicken or turkey with all the fixings. (Vic Harradine)

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Rockway Vineyards ‘Gamay Noir’ 2021
VQA Twenty Mile Bench $24.00 12.0% alcohol
It’s medium-bodied, deftly balanced and oozing with excellent aromas and its fair share of fruit-flavoured notes along with tang and pizzazz. There is also alluring aromas of baking spice, rhubarb and strawberry pie. The delicious fruit flavours on the palate, finish and aftertaste carry the day. Give this a go with a glass of wine on its own then try with prosciutto-wrapped figs stuffed with chèvre and topped with a balsamic glaze. (Vic Harradine)

• The following 2021 Rockway Vineyards ‘Pinot Noir’ is light in colour and barely ruby red in the glass. The grapes were hand-harvested at the end of September from their estate vineyard. The fruit was crushed into tank with the juice undergoing a five-day cold soak then warmed to an alcoholic fermentation with punch-downs twice a day. It was then pressed-off to settle in a stainless steel tank before being racked to French oak barrels, 33% new. Natural malo-lactic conversion occurred in barrel and the wine remained in barrel for an additional time of ten months before it was racked back to tank where it settled prior to being filtered and bottled.

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Rockway Vineyards ‘Pinot Noir’ 2021
VQA Twenty Mile Bench $28.00 12.5% alcohol
Alluring aromas of bramble berry, cassis and floral notes, waft easily after the gentlest swirl. The palate is treated to an elegant-tinged stream of Montmorency pie cherry, ripe, red raspberry and plenty of tang and pizzazz from initial cork pop to the very last drop. Pour alongside Coq au vin or Peking duck. (Vic Harradine)

• The following easy-drinking 2021 Rockway Vineyards ‘Pink Ribbon – Rosé’ was sourced from 100% cabernet franc from the Rockway Estate Vineyard on the renowned Twenty Mile Bench.

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Rockway Vineyards ‘Pink Ribbon – Rosé’ 2021
VQA Twenty Mile Bench $22.00 12.5% alcohol
It sits in the glass with a psychedelic pink colour while aromas of candy floss, strawberry and notions of sweet white lilac abound on the nose before the palate is treated to a smorgasbord of flavours with tang-infused Montmorency red pie cherry, ripe black raspberry and notions of pomegranate persists to and through the finish and aftertaste. Give this a go with pan-seared-in-butter Atlantic salmon or a green salad dressed with extra-virgin olive oil, a dash of red-wine vinegar and crumbled chèvre along with sliced grape tomatoes, chunks of cut cucumber and a generous helping of grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese. (Vic Harradine)

• The following 2020 Rockway Vineyards ‘Clubhouse White’ is an inspired blend of 86% vidal/10% riesling/4% chardonnay that delivers a pure expression of blended wine from the VQA Twenty-Mile Bench. Once fermentation was finished naturally the wine was left on its ferment lees for 4 months before being stabilized, filtered and bottled.

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Rockway Vineyards ‘Clubhouse White’ 2020
VQA Twenty-Mile Bench $17.00 10.5% alcohol
Aromas of floral notes, musky cantaloupe and buckwheat honey abound on the nose of this delightful fruit-driven—off-dry beauty with palate flavours of mango, ripe pear and lemon pastille mingling with grilled and sweetened pineapple and grilled and sugar-topped ruby red grapefruit juxtaposed with plenty of tang and pizzazz. This is medium-bodied with good mouthfeel and texture throughout. It’s nicely balanced on the palate, finish and aftertaste. Don’t hesitate to pick up a few as you can sip on its own or pour with your favourite snacks or with a plate of sushi or a deli platter. (Vic Harradine)

• The following 2021 Rockway Vineyards ‘Clubhouse Red’ is another inspired blend. This time there are four grape varieties with two leading the way—54% baco noir and 33% cabernet franc along with a smaller combination of 8% syrah and 5% merlot.

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Rockway Vineyards ‘Clubhouse Red’ 2021
VQA Twenty-Mile Bench $18.00 13.0% alcohol
This is an inspired blend of near-perfection with the baco noir and the cabernet franc. Aromas of mulberry and blueberry abound on the nose of this dazzling red wine. It blankets the palate with a gusher of black Bing cherry and notions of bramble berry along with a laser-like stream of delightful tang and pizzazz to balance off the ripe fruit flavours. Pour this with barbecued burgers or grilled gourmet sausage or meat-laden, red-sauced pizza. (Vic Harradine)