This pours moderately deep salmon pink. The nose is quite generous with cran-rhubarb, some matchstick sulphur and...

Vibrant and compelling with a hint of little raspberry jam and hibiscous. Elegant with a very good acidic balance and...

This traditional method sparkling wine is 71% pinot noir and 29% chardonnay, with a tiny hint of gamay. Very...

Salmon pink with aromas of strawberries and sour cherries with a creamy mid-palate note. Dry and crisp with fine...

Vineux, with a generous fruity, here is a seductive sparkling, balanced dosage, which puts full mouth. A glass is...

Continues in that autolytic vein noted a year earlier and so the gin, tonic and red berry bitters emit in full...

This batch of this pink bubbly is very good. It is made from pinot noir and chardonnay with an enticing nose of ripe...

Notably oxidative in style, like cherry or pomegranate juice. Perfectly pleasing, though I'd be concerned about...

Average final score from judges at the 2017 National Wine Awards of Canada. Tasted blind June 2017.

Lovely, fresh brioche and autolytic aromas off the top, with medium+ intensity, layered over bright red berries - strawberry, cherry, and raspberry - and some citrusy notes. It is medium+ bodied on the creamy, dry palate with fine mousse and flavours of autolytic, red berry, and citrus with honeyed accents. It has tart, bracing acidity, while mineral notes linger on the finish, with very good length. Tasted Dec/2020.

I just love a fine sparkler. This is a very fine sparkling wine. Made in the traditional method blending Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and a hint of Syrah, it shows crisp acidity with muted fruit flavours. I think it will have mass appeal and I'd serve it for any one of my parties. :)

A rustic rosé sparkling wine that has underlying charm.

Description: Rustic brick red in colour with a medium intense nose. This sparkling wine features light yeast, strawberry, McIntosh apples, truffles and forest greens. Medium+ body with good acidity and a fairly long length.

Negatives: None

Interesting Note: Originally tasted in 2014, and this batch is better.

Drink now or in the next couple of years on its own or pair it with Mushroom and Prosciutto, Asparagus and Brie Tartines.

Tasted: 14 February 2016 (Happy Valentines Day)

Best Buy

Score: 9/10, Value: 8.5+/10 Total: 17.5+/20

Out of 5 stars, I rated this wine: 3.5+

Something of a disappointment from what is generally one of Niagara's best producers of sparkling wine, this NV rosé has appealing, if muted, strawberry, raspberry, and tart lemon-lime flavours, along with a bit of nuttiness, but overall it just comes across as simultaneously bland and rough. It's also quite dry, and the restraint is fine, but this unfortunately lacks both elegance and punch, and it's not helped by the bitterness that emerges on the finish.