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And I'm back

by Bruce Hayes » Tue Sep 13, 2011 4:07 pm

Just got back today from a wonderful two week vacation driving to and around the Atlantic provices of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia.

Beautiful scenary, lots and lots of seafood, very friendly people and lots of wine.

We managed to visit seven wineries in Nova Scotia and while a great deal of what I tasted, particularly the reds, was awful, I did find a few reds and whites that I enjoyed, enough to bring home a mixed case of reds, whites, sparklers and some dessert wines.

The vast majority of the wine acres is given over to hybrids and I tasted some Baco and some Foch, but I also enjoyed a number of others which I had never heard of before: L'Acadie, Leon Millhot, Reliant, New York Muscat, Lucie Kuhlman, Dechanac, Castel.

Over the next few days, I will post my WTN on the wineries and the dozen or so indviudal wines I tried here and there.

Glad to be back.
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Re: And I'm back

by Jon Peterson » Wed Sep 14, 2011 8:55 am

Welcome back! Beautiful country, especially this time of year. We did the same drive a few years ago. The highlight of our trip was driving from P.E.I. to Cape Breton in one day. The ferry captain thought we were nuts and maybe he was right.
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Re: And I'm back

by Tom N. » Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:29 pm

Welcome Back Bruce,

Did you pick up any of those Nota Benes? I have have had the hybrid De Chaunac at a couple of wineries. I actually liked it enough to buy a bottle from Wapoos winery in Prince Edward County. Not so much from the Michigan winery Boskydel.
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Re: And I'm back

by Bruce Hayes » Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:38 am

Tom N. wrote:Welcome Back Bruce,

Did you pick up any of those Nota Benes? I have have had the hybrid De Chaunac at a couple of wineries. I actually liked it enough to buy a bottle from Wapoos winery in Prince Edward County. Not so much from the Michigan winery Boskydel.

No, I didn't. The inventory disappeared from the Nova Scotia Liquour Comission search engine a few days before we left.
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Re: And I'm back

by Jenise » Thu Sep 15, 2011 9:58 am

Welcome back, Bruce. Interesting grape names. I mean, 'Reliant' isn't very sexy but it does have that "can't-go-wrong" kind of essence about it that I can see sounding sexier than hell to the farmer who'd been burned a few times trying to make pinot noir, say, grow. (As happens around here a lot. :) )
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