Creekside Estate Winery Undercurrent Shiraz Malbec 2007

Niagara Escarpment, Canada
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Natalie's Score: 90/100 Community Score: 4.5/5 Community Reviews: 3 Add My Review Product #: 00011 Wine Type: Red Wine	Price: $32.95 Alcohol: 12.5% Drink: 2012-2017 Sweetness: Dry Bottle size: 750 ml Winery: Creekside Estate Winery Agent: Creekside Estate Winery

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Tasting note:

Juicy and full-bodied ... the flavour sneaks up to you in the most delicious way. Black and purple fleshy-ripe plum aromas. The wine was aged 21 months in American and French oak to give a toasty vanilla-smoke finish. Food matches: osso bucco with gremolata, beef burgundy, hard and salty cheeses, roast prine rib with mushroom ragout.

Reviewed January 3, 2012 by Natalie MacLean

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Matt Loney rated this wine as 90/100

Single vineyard Malbec harvested October 7th, 2007 from the Niagara Lakeshore area, blended with 2007 Queenston Road Reserve Shiraz blend from the St. David’s Bench sub-appellation. This Shiraz/Malbec blend was inspired by a grape combo occasionally seen coming out of warmer climate new world wine regions.
Both wines were vinified separately, with each batch fermented in small one ton bins, with manual punchdown of the cap. Aged in oak barrels for 21 months.

Full bodied, with a slightly floral and spicy nose, flavours include, sage, black cherry, vanilla and black peppercorn.

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