Cellar Door 2021 Winter Shipment

These are the included wines – EXCERPT

These are the included wines

Sparkling Rosé Raspberry Cocktail

Ingredients:

  • 5 Fresh raspberries
  • 1 oz Raspberry Chambord
  • 1/4 oz CrПme de Cacao
  • 3 oz CuvОe RosО
  • ••• Freshly grated nutmeg to garnish
  • ••• Additional raspberries to garnish

Directions:

Muddle raspberries in cocktail shaker. Add all ingredients except the Cuvée Rosé into shaker with ice and shake for 5 to 10 seconds.

Pour into a wine glass and top with chilled CuvéeRosé

Garnish with freshly grated nutmeg and raspberries.

Seared Scallops with Lime and Cilantro Dressing

Lime and Cilantro Dressing Ingredients:

  • 1 Large bunch fresh cilantro
  • 1/4 cup 5% sour cream or créme fraiche
  • 2 Garlic cloves, smashed
  • ••• Juice of 2 limes
  • 2 tsp Honey
  • ••• Salt and pepper to taste
  • 1/4 cup Olive oil
  • 1/4 Jalapeno, seeds removed
  • 1 tsp Cumin
  • Salad Ingredients:
  • 12 Fresh scallops
  • 2 cups fresh arugula
  • 1 Avocado, diced
  • ••• Zest of one lime
  • 1 cup Fresh peas, blanched and chilled
  • 1/4 cup Fresh cilantro, washed and trimmed
  • (no stems)
  • . cup Almond slices, lightly toasted
  • ••• Olive oil
  • 1 tbsp Butter
  • ••• Salt and pepper

Mushroom and Lamb Lasagna with Béchamel Sauce

French Bone-In Pork Chop with Black Currant Sauce and Celery Root Purée

Wines included in this shipment

92 pts

Tasting Notes

The mousse is creamy and fine, but the wine is dry and quite bracing with a long, fine finish of fruit skin, ripe stone fruit and light toast. Sparkling wines such as this, with their hint of sugar, bright acidity and carbon dioxide have all the necessary tools to age well for years. Although delicious and perfectly appropriate to drink this wine immediately, this wine will change and mellow through 2023.

$32.95

APPELLATION

VQA Niagara Peninsula

VINEYARD

Various

GRAPE VARIETY

46% Pinot Noir

BRIX AT HARVEST

18.5

ALCOHOL CONTENT

12.5%

RESIDUAL SUGAR

10 grams/Litre

93 pts

Tasting Notes

On the palate it has flavours of crab apples, lime curd and  lemon zest with bracing acidity and a mineral-tinged long finish.Enjoy with oysters, white-fleshed lake fish, bloomy rind cheese or anything deep-fried. Although drinking well on release, will certainly reward medium-to-long term aging.

 

$34.95

APPELLATION

VQA Creek Shores

VINEYARD

13th Street Vineyard

GRAPE VARIETY

100% Riesling

BRIX AT HARVEST

18.3

ALCOHOL CONTENT

11.5%

RESIDUAL SUGAR

9 grams/Litre

Tasting Notes

Classically pale ruby in the glass. Intensely aromatic with notes of black cherry and wild strawberry, earthy notes of mushroom and forest floor with vanilla and baking spice. On the palate it is medium bodied and structured with fine tannins and refreshing acidity with flavours of dried fig, cherry pit, tart raspberry, wild mushroom and beetroot.

Compelling on its own, will also compliment simple roast chicken with mushrooms, grilled salmon or wild game. Drinking well on release but will develop further complexities with short to medium term aging.

$27.95

APPELLATION

VQA Creek Shores

VINEYARD

Whitty Vineyard

GRAPE VARIETY

100% Pinot Noir

BRIX AT HARVEST

20.5

ALCOHOL CONTENT

12.5%

RESIDUAL SUGAR

6 grams/Litre

Tasting Notes

Dark purple in the glass with an intense nose of vanilla, chocolate, black currants and black cherry, with notes of cedar and spice. On the palate it is rich, ripe and full-bodied with smooth tannins and flavours of black cherries and red currants. The finish is long with drying tannins and notes of leather.

Enjoy with steak frites with rich jus, or braised short ribs. Drinking well on release but show further complexities with a few years in the cellar .

$21.95

APPELLATION

VQA Creek Shores

VINEYARD

Lakeshore Farm Vineyard

GRAPE VARIETY

53% Cabernet Merlot

BRIX AT HARVEST

21.3

ALCOHOL CONTENT

13%

RESIDUAL SUGAR

6 grams/Litre

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