Riesling Speck Family Reserve VQA

by Henry Of Pelham 2022

$32.95 ($395.40 /case)

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Riesling Speck Family Reserve VQA by Henry Of Pelham 2022

Riesling Speck Family Reserve VQA

by Henry Of Pelham 2022

$32.95 ($395.40 /case)

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Riesling Speck Family Reserve VQA by Henry Of Pelham 2022

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Producer : Henry Of Pelham

Region : Niagara (Canada), Ontario (Canada)

Food Pairing : Duck breast, Hard Cheese, Nicoise Salad, Risotto, Scallop, Soft Cheese, White Meat

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Tasting Notes

A Mosel clone grown in a Burgundian climate on heavy clay, not slate. Adding to the sites' complexity is a notable southern exposure, pushing the ripeness relative to our cool climate. These elements make this wine a new world mash-up. Crisp but round, citrusy and tropical.

"This top tier Riesling from HoP is always one of the best Rieslings made in Niagara from vintage to vintage. It’s from the estate’s Short Hills Bench vineyard, planted to the Weiss 21b clone in 1984. It has a beautiful nose of gushing lime, Meyer lemon, fresh salinity, wet stones, peaches, and apricots. It feels dry on the palate, despite over 10 g/L of RS, and shows fresh squeezed lime, grapefruit, peach tart, pears, chalky minerality, razor-sharp acidity and a bright, lifted finish. Can age through 2034."
94 Points - Rick VanSickle, Wines In Niagara, July 2024

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Price of Case	$395.40
Point Score	94
Cellaring	Drink Now or Cellar
Sweetness	D - Dry See Sweetness Chart
Bottle Size	750 ml
Producer	Henry Of Pelham
Region	Niagara (Canada), Ontario (Canada)
Alcohol	11.5% alc. / vol.
Style	Smooth and silky whites
Vintage	2022
Farming Method	Organic, Sustainable, Traditional
Food Pairing	Duck breast, Hard Cheese, Nicoise Salad, Risotto, Scallop, Soft Cheese, White Meat
Descriptors	Floral, Fruity, Mineral
Wine Type	White
Wood Presence	Unoaked
Body	Medium
Grapes	Riesling

The Producer

Henry Of Pelham

Henry of Pelham Family Estate Winery is an Ontario winery that released their first vintage in 1988. The namesake of the winery, Henry (Smith) of Pelham was an early settler in Upper Canada’s Niagara Peninsula. His father Nicholas, the first settler, was Pennsylvania Dutch and a United Empire Loyalist who sided with the crown during the American Revolution of 1776. We named the winery Henry of Pelham after great-great-great grandpa’s son, Henry, who we think had a pretty dry sense of humour, nicknaming himself “Henry of Pelham” after a British Prime Minister. He was quite the entrepreneur, building an inn and tavern on the property and operating a toll road. He raised sheep. And grew grapes—some of the first to be planted in Canada. Our tasting room and wine store are in Henry’s carriage house. In 1984, when our parents decided to replace Henry’s concord and Niagara grapevines with old world vinifera grapes, the Niagara wine scene hardly existed and there were a lot of naysayers—but we had done our homework. Heat scans proved we had the right conditions, and we bettered our chances by contouring the hills and installing drainage. At the time, we were one of only a few Niagara wineries to make premium wines from our own grapes.