Vintages New Release Collection – July 4, 2026

SPIRIT OF SUSTAINABILITY

ROSEWOOD RIESLING AF 6 VQA Twenty Mile Bench, Niagara Escarpment, Ontario, unfined “ ‘AF’ stands for arrested fermentation [among other things]. It’s a fun, light-hearted, juicy, aromatic, thirst-quenching wine that is, at the same time, very serious, because it’s super well-balanced and incredibly textured. I personally love drink ing it with a variety of things, but one of my favourite pairings has to be pad Thai and East Indian curries. Something that has a little bit of heat to it. Or you go the other direction; fresh summer salads with goat cheese.” (William Roman) Aromatic & Flavourful 11947 (M) 750 ml $19.95 2 ROSEWOOD NIGHT MOVES 6 VQA Niagara Peninsula, Ontario, unfined and unfiltered “We treat Night Moves like our Beaujolais-Villages level. It’s meant to be an all-encompass ing, easy-drinking wine that still has that good structure to work with a variety of foods and have that backbone to it and that good acidity. The 2022 is fairly ripe, so I love drinking this with duck. It’s also great with burgers or anything ož the grill because of its slightly smoky quality, white pepper, beautiful bramble and fruit.” (William Roman) Light-bodied & Fruity 51932 (XD) 750 ml $29.95 1 New at Vintages

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Rosewood is a beloved family-run local winery certified by Sustainable Winegrowing Ontario in both vineyard and winery. But before the wine, there were the bees. “This is going to be our [family’s] 94th commercial year of beekeeping,” says general manager William Roman. “I’m a third-generation beekeeper, and I’ve been doing that since I’ve been a very, very little kid, with my grandmother and my father.” Beekeeping duties are mostly handled by William’s parents, Eugene and Renata Roman, who began Rosewood Winery in 2000. William helps out as needed, but the impact of the bees goes beyond the honey products for sale at the winery. Bees are highly sensitive, and keeping them healthy means reacting very quickly and decisively; traits that can only benefit winemakers in a region where no two vintages are alike. It also means taking extra care in the vineyard. “The bees will die if we spray something like a neonicotinoid [insecticide] on the plants, so we just don’t do that,” says William. Instead of spraying herbicides, the team does manual weed control. Pheromone dis ruptors and traps assist with pest management. These practices aid not only the Rosewood bees, but native wild pollinators as well. In return, the bees help out with fruit set (the process of a flower forming a berry) in the vineyard. “All of our neighbouring vineyards really like the fact that we house 2-5 million bees,” says William. “We want to foster as much natural pollination services for everybody as we can, because it’s going to help our entire ecosystem.”

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