Colio Wines 2008 Girls Night Out Riesling - $12.95

Today, simple is good. This is the most recent Riesling from the wildly successful "Girls Night Out" line of wines from Colio. How successful have they been with this wine you might ask? So successful they have spawned copy-cats across this great province of ours.

The Tasting Notes: Sippable and fruity; slightly sweet, yet tarty – like any good date should be, of course that's my misogynistic male opinion. Price: $12.95 – Rating: ***½

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Colio Estate Wines 2006 Late Harvest Vidal - $11.95

“Late Harvest”, what is it? It can be one of two things: 1) the second pressing of icewine grapes or 2) grapes harvested later than usual harvest time – here in Ontario that’s after September and October. Colio waited, and waited and waited and finally in late January 2007 they said enough … temps never got to icewine making range (-8 to –10) but these grapes did see some frost, some freezing and even picked up a little botrytis along the way before being plucked from the vine. The nose is very icewine-esque: apples, pears, peaches, apricots, honey and some lilac; while those yummy flavours from the nose follow through on the palate but with much less sweetness than you’d expect from something that smells this sweet; ranking only about a 6 on the sugar code, compared to an icewine’s 20+. The finish is appley with hints of cinnamon, vanilla and/or butterscotch depending on which way your palate leans.

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