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Prince Edward County Ontario Wine Tour - Carmela Estates WineryThe County - Southern Ontario Wine and Food Culture Comes of Ageby Wade Rowland - Part 5Carmela Estates Winery was pouring the first of its 2002 wines this year at its big, new facility in Prince Edward County, which has been designed from the ground up as a multi-purpose winery, with complete convention and banquet facilities. The main structure resembles a scaled-up Ontario bank barn and blends beautifully with its bucolic surroundings. The state-of-the art kitchen will be open for year-round dining sometime this (2004-5) winter.
Wines here are all aged in French oak casks. Carmela's 2002 Pinot Gris and 2002 Riesling became the first wines to achieve VQA designation for wines totally grown, fermented and bottled in the County. But like other Prince Edward County winery start-ups, the Carmela Estate Winery has had to import grapes from Niagara to supplement early crops. Nevertheless from our tastings we'd say the product is already showing a distinctive character, and certainly reflects Hardie's experience and commitment. And speaking of commitment, Hardie and his wife have a small winery of their own under development, just up the road on a few acres of well-drained, sloping, limestone-and-clay shelf. They're in it for the long haul.
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