by OW Holmes » Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:54 am
I guess we should have tried Inniskillen when we were there in connection with NiagaraCOOL. I tried reds every place we went, and I can honestly say that of the 20 or so wineries we have visited there over the past two years, we have never had a really good red, and some were really quite disgusting. (But then, I have only had one Michigan red I thought was really good.)
We have enjoyed the ice wine from several vineyards, and I for one am glad they are doing icewine. I just love it - or at least the versions that have enough acidity that they aren't too cloying. I hope, of course, that they aren't making a mistake with the icewine, but if you are right, David, I don't see how they get off that treadmill. There are some, Royal DeMaria for example, that ONLY make ice wine. And without any figures to back it up, it looks like a big seller at the checkout cash register.
The best Riesling I have tasted there over the past two years, and this is only of 40 or 50 sampled, was a Vineland semi-dry - and I think it was the newly released 05. It was the only one I have sampled that compared favorably to the best of the FL or Old Mission Peninsula.
-OW