VQA Short Hills Bench

Tasting Notes:This wine displays a wonderful concentration of dense brambly fruit (raspberry, blackberry, and currant) while the powerful structure of the palate is balanced by delicate flavours of violets and rose petals. A wine worthy of long cellar aging.

The Speck Family Reserve (SFR) wines are the highest expression of our specific vineyards’ terroir in the Short Hills Bench sub-appellation of the Niagara Peninsula.

Food Matches: Mushrooms, pork liver pates, tuna, grilled salmon, roasted chicken, duck and other game birds.

Winemaker’s Notes:

• Multiple clones play a role in the layered complexity of this wine
• Fermented in stainless steel utilizing pulse-air followed by hand punch downs to gently manage the cap. All juice is separatedfrom the skins with no press wine added back.
• Aged in European oak, with 30% new, then married together in an oak tank.
• Total wood aging is 10 months.

*Vintage subject to change without notice.