Vintages New Release Collection – October 25, 2025

THE NEW RELEASE COLLECTION

CANADA – RED WINE CONT’D ONTARIO PELLER ESTATES PRIVATE RESERVE GAMAY NOIR 2022 6 VQA Niagara Peninsula, sustainable Niagara Gamay is literally the envy of many places that strive (with far less success) to achieve the purity, refinement and character found in the finest of Beaujolais. This juicy, bright, pretty, elegant wine has plentiful red berry, cherry, tomato leaf and black pepper, with superb purity and precision and an undeniably food-friendly character. If serving baked salmon, try this for a pairing. Medium-bodied & Fruity 444745 (XD) 750 ml $25.95 1

STRATUS MERLOT 2021 6 VQA Niagara-on-the-Lake, sustainable, vegan Sourced from some of Stratus’s oldest vineyard blocks, this Merlot is a silky, velvety wine with layered cassis, plum, dark fruit, leather, sweet tobacco and sandalwood. This Ontario gem will drink into the mid-2030s+ and will be a stunning addition to your holiday dining or be a treasured gift. Medium-bodied & Fruity 37411 (XD) 750 ml $45.20 2

VINELAND CABERNET 2019 6 VQA Niagara Escarpment, sustainable

ROSEWOOD NIGHT MOVES 2021 6 VQA Niagara Peninsula

Niagara has earned a global reputation for the quality of its Cabernet Franc, producing some of the finest made anywhere . Here, it's blended with Cabernet Sauvignon to create a wine of even greater depth and character, with forward, primary suggestions of strawberry, rasp- berry, dark berry and cherry, plus complex hints of earth and savoury herbs. A wine with the pedigree to please through to the end of the decade. Medium-bodied & Fruity 47830 (XD) 750 ml $19.95 2

Crafted from 100% Gamay wild-fermented as whole clusters in an oak foudre, this wine spent a month on the skins before maturing for 15 months in French oak and finally being bottled unfined and unfiltered. Graceful and lively, it offers delicate layers of forest bramble and tangy berry fruit. Light-bodied & Fruity 47632 (XD) 750 ml $29.95 1

SOUTHBROOK TRIOMPHE CABERNET SAUVIGNON 2021 6 VQA Niagara Peninsula, vegan

This is all from estate fruit and is bottled unfined with light filtration. The grapes were fully destemmed and fermented wild in eight-ton oak fermenters and left on skins for 31 days. After pressing, the wine was aged in French oak barrels for 18 months before careful barrel selection and blending. Quite fruit-laden on the nose with intense cassis, black- berries and Morello cherries with integrated spice notes. The palate shows firm structure and more meat on the bones with a melange of dark berries, polished tannins, more evident spice and a lifted, long finish. Can cellar through 2033. Score: 91 (Rick VanSickle, winesinniagara.com, May 13, 2025) Medium-bodied & Fruity 193573 (XD) 750 ml $29.95 2 4 Organic & biodynamic product

ARGENTINA – WHITE WINE

CATENA HIGH MOUNTAIN VINES CHARDONNAY 2023 Valle de Uco, Mendoza, sustainable

Fresh and creamy notes of pie crust, lemon curd and toast. Bright, juicy and elegant on the palate with a fluid, lengthy finish. A very good value here. Drink now. Score: 93 (Zekun Shuai, jamessuckling.

com, Feb. 4, 2024) Full-bodied & Rich 918805

$20.95 1

(XD) 750 ml

36 VINTAGES SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2025