Peller Estates Cabernet Franc Ice Wine 2016, Niagara Peninsula, Canada
Amber in color with a brown hue.
Sweet nose with cherries, overripe apples, oranges, honey, apricots, lemons, honeysuckle and Indian spices.
Full-bodied with high acidity and fat legs.
Sweet on the palate with apples, apricots, ripe pears, light black tea, herbs, light earth, Indian spices and chocolates.
Long finish with honey and spices.
This is a gorgeous Ice Wine made from Cabernet Franc grapes. Very complex at this point, engaging and interesting.
This 9 year old is nicely aged, sweet and delicious, and will continue to age nicely in the next 10 years.
Well balanced, sweet and easy drinking. Rich and extracted. Fruit forward and entertaining.
A great dessert wine, and good by itself.
Drank from a 375ml bottle.
11.5% alcohol by volume.
95 points.
$100 (current vintage).
8BitCumCannon
omg ice wine is so underrated!! that cabernet franc one sounds amazing, i tried a riesling ice wine last month and it was literally the most delicious thing ever.
tlind2
Peller was my introduction to better Canadian wine. We were staying at the boutique hotel next door and got free vouchers for a tasting. Based on some unrelated local wine we had the previous evening, I had low expectations. But we went for the tasting flight and ended up staying for a 5 course meal. We even went back some years later, taking a detour specifically to visit.
I’ve drank everything I cellared in 2013, the last bottles still going strong last year. I recommend a visit if anyone is in the area!
sercialinho
Great to see that CabFranc icewine ages well as well. I’ve tasted a number of 20+yo white icewines over the years and they are excellent, earthy etc. – and Vidal especially is vastly improved by age – but I’ve never tasted a remotely mature CabFranc. They’re just too yummy in youth, like the best strawberry and rose jam imaginable. I’ll have to hold on to one some day!
Vandopolis
Canada must be the last place in North America to have Ice Wine. It’s been years since I have seen any made natively down here in the states.
jaimeson87
If you have the chance, you need to grab a bottle of Pillitteri Ice Wine also in Niagara region – they make some not so common varietals (Pinot Noir, Corvina…) and all of the ones we tasted were aging beautifully.
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Peller Estates Cabernet Franc Ice Wine 2016, Niagara Peninsula, Canada
Amber in color with a brown hue.
Sweet nose with cherries, overripe apples, oranges, honey, apricots, lemons, honeysuckle and Indian spices.
Full-bodied with high acidity and fat legs.
Sweet on the palate with apples, apricots, ripe pears, light black tea, herbs, light earth, Indian spices and chocolates.
Long finish with honey and spices.
This is a gorgeous Ice Wine made from Cabernet Franc grapes. Very complex at this point, engaging and interesting.
This 9 year old is nicely aged, sweet and delicious, and will continue to age nicely in the next 10 years.
Well balanced, sweet and easy drinking. Rich and extracted. Fruit forward and entertaining.
A great dessert wine, and good by itself.
Drank from a 375ml bottle.
11.5% alcohol by volume.
95 points.
$100 (current vintage).
omg ice wine is so underrated!! that cabernet franc one sounds amazing, i tried a riesling ice wine last month and it was literally the most delicious thing ever.
Peller was my introduction to better Canadian wine. We were staying at the boutique hotel next door and got free vouchers for a tasting. Based on some unrelated local wine we had the previous evening, I had low expectations. But we went for the tasting flight and ended up staying for a 5 course meal. We even went back some years later, taking a detour specifically to visit.
I’ve drank everything I cellared in 2013, the last bottles still going strong last year. I recommend a visit if anyone is in the area!
Great to see that CabFranc icewine ages well as well. I’ve tasted a number of 20+yo white icewines over the years and they are excellent, earthy etc. – and Vidal especially is vastly improved by age – but I’ve never tasted a remotely mature CabFranc. They’re just too yummy in youth, like the best strawberry and rose jam imaginable. I’ll have to hold on to one some day!
Canada must be the last place in North America to have Ice Wine. It’s been years since I have seen any made natively down here in the states.
If you have the chance, you need to grab a bottle of Pillitteri Ice Wine also in Niagara region – they make some not so common varietals (Pinot Noir, Corvina…) and all of the ones we tasted were aging beautifully.
Now that is neat