Contains Estate grown Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc – our first harvest! Bright aromas of red and black currant, followed by  spice and cedar. Cranberry and currant with lively acidity and firm tannin on palate. Young, this wine will reward keeping for up to ten years. Drink now to 2018. $63/750mL.

****1/2 (out of 5) - "[The Poetica series] debut Cabernet Merlot underscores the overarching house philosophy: Niagara wines have the capacity to be both serious and age-worthy. This is an extremely fine Bordeaux blend, with firm structure and layers of rich fruit, savoury herbal and oak-derived notes."
Vines Magazine, Nov/Dec 2008

featuring the poem
If I Had a Name Like Rosie Fernandez
by Wendy Morton

If I had a name like Rosie Fernandez
I would wear gardenias and orchids
in my hair.
I would buy some hot sauce
called “ Jump up and kiss me”.
I would offer it to strangers.

If I had a name like Rosie Fernandez
I would know how to tango,
I would sing anywhere,
I would tap dance on sidewalks.
I would fall in love insistently,
spend hours in cafes
with a broken heart
and good coffee.

Oh, if I had a name like Rosie Fernandez,
I would know it.
Author of four collections of poetry and a long-time resident of Sooke, B.C. on the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Wendy Morton brought poetry out of coffee houses and onto the streets as the founder of Random Acts of Poetry, a week-long event that links poets nationwide with audiences in unlikely places. "Poetry is the shortest distance between two hearts,” says Morton. “Poetry can connect us with each other as no other art form I know.” “I have been WestJet’s poet of the skies, Chrysler’s poet of the road, and now I’m Southbrook’s Poet of the Vines,” she says. “I love the idea of it. I’m a person who thinks poetry should be everywhere.”

www.national-random-acts-of-poetry.blogspot.com
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