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In This
Issue... |
| ☼ A new
grape for Chadsey's |
| ☼ Sandbanks
adds 2 at LCBO |
| ☼ Sugarbush
celebrates 1 year |
| ☼ Winemaker
for Hillier Creek |
| ☼ Wassail
Event comes of age | |
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Schedule Of Events For
Fall |
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County Tastes &
Pairings
From County
Winemakers and Chefs
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~ Bergeron Estate Winery ~
Winemaker: Dan Sullivan
Gamay Noir 2007
"Best light red in Region"
TASTE! 2008
(
http://bergeronestatewinery.com )
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~ Claramount Inn,
Picton ~
Chef: Lilly Sullivan, Michael Hoy
Duck
Prosciutto with
Drunken Waupoos Blueberries
"Award Winning Paiing" TASTE! 2008
(
http://claramountinn.com/ )
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Did You
Know?... |
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The County now has over 700 acres
planted to Grapes and up to nine new
Wineries opening in 2009. The County
will surpass Lake Erie North Shore / Pelee Island as Ontario's 2nd largest
Viticultural Area...only one year after
being designated as such by the VQA! |
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The County is home to more award winning
wines per capita (Winery) than ANY other
Viticultural area in Ontario! |
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The County is growing new and exciting
grape varietals found in no other
Ontario Designated Viticultural Area:
St. Laurent, Frontenac, St. Croix,
Regent, and Landau, to name just a few. |
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Top 3 County
LCBO
Favourites This Week |
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~ Picton LCBO ~ |
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1 |
Black Prince Cabernet Franc 2007 |
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2 |
Sandbanks Vidal 2007 |
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3 |
Rosehall Run Chardonnay 2007 |
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~ Wellington LCBO
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1 |
Rosehall Run
Chardonnay 2007 |
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2 |
Black Prince
Cabernet Franc 2007 |
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3 |
Trumpour's
Mill Chardonnay 2006 |
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As
reported by local LCBO staff |
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More County
Wineries and more accolades |
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On September 5th, the Quinte Arts Council pre-sented
its fourth annual ARTEVÏNO wine comp-etition
with an all-star panel of judges:
David Lawrason (Toronto Life), Rod
Phillips (Ottawa Cit-izen), Konrad Ejbich
(Wine Writer’s Circle, CBC National), Shari
Darling (The Intelligencer) and
Veroniqiue Rivest (Candian Sommelier of the
Year 2007).
This distinguished group has paid
consider-able praise to Canada's newest
Designated Viticul-tural Area with an array of
awards.
Similarly, Sandbanks Estate Winery's 2006
Cabernet Franc and Baco Noir Reserve brought
home medals from The All Canadian Wine
Champ-ionships 2008, a panel of | |
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36 wine writers, sommel-iers, and
industry profes-sionals from across Canada and
the U.S., including
Dan Berger, Shari Darling, Larry
Paterson, Michael Pinkus and Adam
Dial.
In the first of the six-city
national 2008 Gold Medal Plates culinary
competi-tions held in Ottawa on October 15,
County wines captured awards:
Huff Estates' 2007 Riesling; Closson
Chase Vineyards' 2007 PEC Pinot Noir;
Sandbanks Estate Winery's 2007 Riesling.
The passion of County Winemakers and Vineyard Managers
working with the Terroir and auspicious climates
is beginning to attract quite a few awards!.
We're keeping a cons-tantly updated list on-line.
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Full List On-Line ) | |
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PEC Sweeps Royal
Fair's Wine Contest
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Sensing the unprece-dented growth in
the On-tario wine industry, The
Royal Winter Agricultural Fair has
inaugurated an annual Wine
Competition, judged not only by pro-fessional
wine experts, but the public at
large, as well.
This historic event was punctuated by a sweep-ing
recognition of Prince Edward County
wines. A few familiar names took the
ribbons: Black Prince Winery,
Huff Estates Winery,
Norman Hardie Winery; plus
newcomer Harwood Estate
Vine-yards (making wines in
Black Prince facilities.)
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Full List On-Line ) |
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Globe's
Crosariol Praises Closson Chard
"World’s
best chardonnay without a Burgundy postal code." |
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A recent article in The Financial Times has
por-trayed Prince Edward County as not only a
true Mecca for wine lovers, but | |
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quite a lovely place to
visit, work and live, too.
What is it about the County that inspirer poems and
portraits and moves | |
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Winemakers and Chefs to go
beyond the predictions to create a real rural
gour-met get-away?
(
Full Story On-Line ) | |
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| A new grape for By Chadsey's
Cairns -
Muscat Ottenel |
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And it's not only a new grape
for
By Chadsey's Cairns...Muscat Ottenel may be a new grape
for Prince Edward County. Also, all
the growth is not just in grapes--there are some
new technological improvements in the Winery,
too.
Just released:
Gamay,
Roxey Rose, Chenin Blanc. Coming soon: Chadsey's
Pinot Noir 2007.
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http://bychadseyscairns.com/ ) | |
| Sandbanks Estate
Vineyards adds two wines at LCBO |
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Sandbanks Estate Winery joins
the growing list of County Wineries placing
wines on LCBO shelves. Sandbanks' Dunes
Vidal and award winning Baco Noir are now in 15
select LCBO stores including 2 in Toronto, 2 in
Peterborough, Cobourg, Belleville, Picton,
Napanee, 3 in Kingston, 3 in Ottawa and
Brockville.
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http://sandbankswinery.com/ ) | |
| Sugarbush Vineyards
Winery celebrates one year with two awards |
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Sugarbush Vineyards walked
away from
this year's Artevino 2008 competion with awards
for both entries: a Silver Medal their 2007
Gamay VQA and a Bronze Medal for their Unoaked
Chardonnay 2007 VQA.
It's Their Tasting Room's first anniversary!
(
http://sugarbushvineyards.ca/ ) | |
| Winemaker announced at
Hillier Creek
Estates |
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The new Winemaker at Hillier
Creek Estates is Lauren Horlock. A
respected name in the County wine industry,
she's excited about plans to open this showplace
Winery to the public in 2009. Lauren joins
an elite and successful group of Prince Edward
County Winemakers and many are women: Jennifer Dean from County
Cider's wine division, Deborah Paskus at
Closson Chase Vineyards, Catherine Langois of
Sandbanks Estate Vineyards and Vida
Zalnieriunas of By Chadsey's
Cairns.
{http://thecountywines.com/ ) (
Email:
hilliercreekestates@kos.net
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| Wassail event more fun than
ever |
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Wassail is the County's way
of celebrating the harvest and the burying of
the vines for another year and this year's
celebration will be bigger and more fun than
ever. County Wineries will present a broad range
of diversions such as art and quilt exhibits,
wreath making, a Mulled Wine competition,
festive pre-Holiday decor, caroling and choir
presentations. This is the time of year when the
County sparkles and shines with old-world
tradition. (
Full Story On-Line ) | |
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For more information County Wineries and
Vineyards: http://thecountywines.com
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