Saturday Night – Bison Burgers for the win – Part 3

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For dessert, my Mom a week or so ago dropped off a frozen homemade apple crumble so we thought it would be fun to have that for dessert.  We also had a bottle of 2008 Megalomaniac Cold-hearted Ice-wine Riesling to go with this. 

 

The nose on the wine was big with lovely aromas of lychee, Jolly Rancher Melon flavored candy and some petrol lurking in the background as well.  Taste the wine, peach and green apple flavours with touch of vanilla were to be found.  The best way to describe this wine is if you took canned peach syrup and infused it with vodka you probably wouldn’t be far off from this.  The wine did have enough acidity to offset the sweetness of the wine which was nice.  You know a wine is freaking sweet when after it you have a sip of Pepsi and the Pepsi doesn’t seem sweet anymore.  The wine worked really nicely with the apples and cinnamon of the apple crumble dessert.

Here is the group rating for the wine - Mick – 87, Mark – 89, Kathy – 88, Amy – 87, Overall – 87.75.

Here is the LCBO information on the wine –

MEGALOMANIAC COLDHEARTED RIESLING ICEWINE 2010
VINTAGES 243519
200 mL bottle
Price $ 29.95
This is a VQA wine
Made in: Ontario, Canada
By: John Howard Cellars of Distinction
Release Date: Feb 11, 2013
Wine, Icewine
7.9% Alcohol/Vol.
Varietal: Icewine
Sugar Content: 222 g/L
Sweetness Descriptor: S - Sweet

Description -  Silver Medal winner at the 2012 Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, a prestigious competition now in its 90th year.

Tasting Note -  This attractively perfumed Icewine is a liquid golden colour in the glass, and serves up bountiful fragrances of honeysuckle, tangerine and peach, clementine, mango, pear and ripe pineapple. Mouthfilling and generously sweet with nervy acidity bringing perfect balance. There's some tangy lemon zest on the finish. A rousing success that shows why Riesling Icewine from Ontario is so enchanting. Savour with spicy spring rolls or freshly sliced melon, or mix it with equal parts sparkling wine for a lively cocktail. (VINTAGES panel, Nov. 2012)

* Note – the LCBO listing is for the 2011 vintage and not the 2008 vintage reviewed here.

At $29 a bottle (though it is a 200mL vs. a 375mL) it is decently price for the quality of wine that it is.  I wouldn’t rush out to buy more but I certainly would consider picking up a bottle if I was shopping for a dessert wine.

Thanks to Mick and Amy for hosting and to Mick for all his hard work that went into making those two wonderful dishes.

Cheers,

Mark