Featherstone Estate Winery

1. Free Delivery with a minimum purchase of $120.00 within Ontario (some restrictions may apply to rural addresses) Click here to order wine.
2. Pick up at the winery- give us a call with a credit card number and we’ll have your order ready for pick up. It’s ‘take-out wine’ to go with your take-out meals. No minimum order, available 7 days, please give us minimum 2 hours’ notice. Phone 905-562-1949. If you prefer zero-contact, we can leave your order on the back porch for you. 
3. Tasting room is closed.

92  
Featherstone Estate Winery Sauvignon Blanc 2019
VQA Niagara Peninsula $17.95 (89011) 12.5% alcohol
Gooseberry aromas waft easily from the glass with a supporting cast of grassy notes and ripe pit fruit—peach, yellow plum and hints of mango. It envelops the palate with a balanced-on-a-pin, creamy-smooth mouthful of delectable flavour with quince jelly, tangy lemon curd and wisps of saline minerality to the fore. This is medium bodied with persistent purity of fruit and deft balance extending through the crisp and refreshing finish. Pour on its own or alongside fish, seafood, sushi or crumbled chèvre over a bed of olive-oiled arugula. (Vic Harradine)

• Wine from the following 2018 Featherstone Estate Winery ‘Canadian Oak’ Chardonnay was pressed into and ambient-yeast fermented in, Canadian oak barrel with 90% pre-used from one to five years and 10% new. It matured for 10 months in the same barrels and underwent partial—50%—malolactic conversion.

90 
Featherstone Estate Winery ‘Canadian Oak’ Chardonnay 2018
VQA Niagara Peninsula $21.95 (149302) 13.0% alcohol
Light-gold hued in the glass, lifted aromas of exotic spice, pungent oaky notes and orchard fruit—red apple, ripe pear, apricot—and hi-toned spirits abound. It captures the palate with an energetic surge of baking spice, caramel apple and citrussy notes. This is medium weight with good mouthfeel, deft balance and a lengthy lip-smacking finish. It’s good to go now alongside roast pork with a tangy applesauce side or chicken pot pie. (Vic Harradine)

• A ‘Phoenix’ is a mythical bird associated with rebirth or renewal. In the particularly brutal winter of 2017, Featherstone’s then 14-year-old gewürztraminer vines appeared to have succumbed to the cold. However, they have survived and risen again by producing this limited bottling—only 198 cases produced. The following 2019 Featherstone ‘Phoenix’ is certainly deserving of your careful consideration of a multiple purchase. Only 7 bottles purchased from online at the winery and they’ll pick up the shipping charge to deliver to your home. While ordering this, fill up the case with five more wines, your choice, and they’ll arrive together without any shipping charge.

92  
Featherstone Estate Winery ‘Phoenix’ Gewürztraminer 2019
VQA Niagara Peninsula $18.95 (519025) 13.5% alcohol
Rosewater and ginger aromas mingle with piquant spice on the nose of this medium-plus bodied, fully textured, oily and creamy-smooth gem. It coats the palate with viscous ambrosia riding delicious palate flavours of grilled pineapple, lemon curd and orange cordial. It has a monumentally long finish and aftertaste that’s balanced and beautiful. Pour with tandoori chicken or baked leg of butt-portion ham decorated with cloves and brushed with maple syrup. (Vic Harradine)

• Fruit for the following 2019 Featherstone Estate Winery ‘Four Feathers’ was both machine and hand harvested then pressed and transferred into 100% stainless steel fermentation tanks and after eight hours of fining and settling was racked off gross lees. It’s a white blend of 50% riesling/40% chardonnay/8% sauvignon blanc/2% gewürztraminer

91  
Featherstone Estate Winery ‘Four Feathers’ 2019
VQA Niagara Peninsula $14.95 (341586) 12.5% alcohol
This white blend has a cult-like following by consistently punching well above its low, low price. A smorgasbord of aromas leap from the glass with mango, pineapple, lemon zest and piquant spice to the fore. It bathes the palate with a delightful, complex wash of flavour—lemon-lime cordial and blood orange mingling with wisps of sugared and grilled white grapefruit sections. It’s just off-dry with loads of delicious tang and silky-smooth mouthfeel. Pour on its own or alongside fish or seafood, or supermarket rotisserie roast chicken. (Vic Harradine)

• The following 2018 Featherstone Estate Winery ‘Black Sheep’ Riesling is another in a long line of fine examples from Featherstone of how artisanal wines from family-owned and family-managed wineries often trump the massive winery conglomerates in quality and, importantly, in quality-price balance.

91  
Featherstone Estate Winery ‘Black Sheep’ Riesling 2018
VQA Niagara Peninsula $18.95 (80234) 10.0% alcohol
Aromas of lemon-lime, mineral notes and wisps of white grapefruit provide segue to a tang-laden stream of saline/flinty minerality, Granny Smith apple and lime cordial racing over the palate persisting through the crisp, clean and refreshing finish. This is medium bodied and light on its feet with excellent balance, persistent purity of fruit and oodles of tang and boatloads of charm. A perfect thirst quencher at any time, it also shines with charcuterie and a baguette or a plate of sushi, ceviche or a platter of freshly shucked briny oysters. (Vic Harradine)

• Huge kudos to Featherstone winemaker, David Johnson, recently named ‘2020 Winemaker of the Year’ at the Ontario Wine Awards. The following 2019 Featherstone Estate Winery Rosé is a wonderful example of his vineyard management and winemaking prowess.
“We farm naturally and without the use of insecticides, growing wine in a way that is healthy and completely unique. The result is bright and complex small-lot wines crafted to express the singular nature of our premium site in the Twenty Mile Bench appellation.”

92  
Featherstone Estate Winery Rosé 2019
VQA Niagara Peninsula $15.95 (117861) 13.0% alcohol
This Rosé is a red blend of 42% cabernet sauvignon/39% cabernet franc/16% gamay noir/3% merlot. Lifted, lively aromas leap from the glass with strawberry and watermelon interwoven with piquant spice and peel marmalade. It blankets the palate with flavour-filled surge of tang-infused cranberry cordial, pie cherry along with sugared and grilled ruby red grapefruit. It’s fresh and lively, balanced and beautiful, flavour packed and simply mouth-watering delicious. You will not taste many Rosé better than this and even fewer with a price-quality balance so tipped in your favour. (Vic Harradine)

• There were only 48 cases of the following 2018 Featherstone Estate Winery Gamay Noir made. It was machine harvested, sorted by optical scanner then cold soaked in open-top vats and fermented with commercial yeast. After full malolactic fermentation it was matured in 100% neutral American oak barrels—over 5 years old—for 10 months. This is sold at or via the winery only.

89 
Featherstone Estate Winery Gamay Noir 2018
VQA Niagara Peninsula $17.95 12.5% alcohol
Red cherry/berry fruit and gamy notes mingle with sandalwood and blueberry aromas on the nose. It blankets the palate with a medium-bodied, nicely textured, strong-flavoured tsunami wave of ripe red and dark berry fruit, grilled savoury herbs and tang-laden passionfruit. It’s good to go now after a two-hour aeration/decant poured with spicy hot chilli con carne or lamb tagine with potatoes, carrots and tomatoes. (Vic Harradine)

• The following 2018 Featherstone Estate Winery Cabernet Franc is a blend of 86% cabernet franc with 14% merlot. Fruit was machine harvested, optically scanned and sorted, cold soaked for five days then fermented with commercial yeast. It went through 100% malolactic conversion and was aged in 100% American oak, 25% new.

91 
Featherstone Estate Winery Cabernet Franc 2018
VQA Niagara Peninsula $19.95 (64618) 12.9% alcohol
The price-quality balance tips well in your favour here. Floral notes, graphite and hints of incense mingle with bramble berry on the nose of this medium-bodied, silky-smooth textured, delightful cab franc. It caresses the palate with a deftly balanced and immensely flavourful stream showcasing balance of tang and acidity, soft ripe tannin and delectable flavour with ripe red plum and cherry playing off good tang and a lengthy crisp and mouth-watering finish. Give this a go with comfort food of the grill—gourmet sausage, beer-can chicken. (Vic Harradine) 

91 
Featherstone Estate Winery ‘Red Tail’ Merlot 2018
VQA Niagara Peninsula $19.95 12.5% alcohol
This is lip-smacking good from twist top to last drop with the price-quality ratio skewed in your favour. Delicate aromas of dark berry fruit, floral notes and exotic incense waft from the glass, A delightfully lively flow of crunchy red fruit—cherry, passion fruit and cranberry—race over the palate with great élan. Somewhere around mid-palate a dollop of ripe dark cherry makes itself known enhancing the balance of fruit and acidity. It’s a great sipping wine and pours well with spicy tomato pasta. (Vic Harradine)