Grapes were hand harvested from our estate vineyard and carefully hand sorted. Rich, dark, classic claret colour. Inviting nose of dark fruits and complex vanilla and coffee, toasty notes. Round mid-palate and long, satisfying finish. Structure suggests a wine to enjoy young with grilled meats or to cellar 10–15 years.
$60/750mL; $30/375mL.

*First place winner at the 2009 Royal Agricultural Winter Fair -- Meritage blends over $20.

featuring an excerpt from
Radiant Inventory
Christopher Dewdney

The world has become
a spectacle of absence,
a radiant inventory.
The sunlight that falls
on the margin of the lake
nurtures a deficit
in its clarity, its violence.
These waves are items are
a description of themselves
in discourse with their changes
thought time. The sand
is a finite texture of
self corruption. Everything
interpenetrating, extensile,
at once continuous and discrete.
This sunlight both sustains and erodes
the luminous surface of matter
the precise miracle of life.

Now that I have been opened
I can never be closed again.
The reflection of the sun on the waves
is a shining path to the horizon
a dazzling lucent shuttle
of unknowable complexity.
A cloud over the sun
momentary camera obscura.
And as I move towards resolution
the world abandons its detail
in a theatre at once dark & light
where life is a kind of joyous shade
a shadow over the sun
a dark radiance.



Christopher Dewdney is the author of four books of non-fiction and eleven books of poetry. This year HarperCollins published his most recent book of non-fiction, Soul of the World: Unlocking the Secrets of Time. A four-time nominee for the Governor General’s Award and a teacher of writing at the Glendon Campus of York University, Dewdney, who lives in Toronto, is also an avid wine collector. A passion for wine runs in his family; daughter Calla studies viticulture at Niagara College in Niagara-on-the-Lake. In 2007, Dewdney won the prestigious Harbourfront Festival Prize, given annually to an individual who makes a significant contribution to the world of books and writing.

www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/dewdney


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