WTN: 2014 No. 99 Wayne Gretzky Estates Baco Noir

The Great One knows a great grape.

12.5% alc./vol. The wine pours with a deep scarlet-ruby hue and dense but translucent saturation. It has a superb, briny / plummy / V. riparia varietal Baco nose, with lively, tart red currant fruit.

The wine has a bright, refreshing tartness on the entry; a zingy, tight entry reveals good focus and a firm backbone. The wine is, much like Barbera, a great palate cleanser: it would go superbly well with ribs, steak, pizza and any pasta-and-tomato-sauce combination.

$15.95, with limited distribution at the LCBO.

Which winery turns out these wines Paul?

Bob, it would appear to be Wayne Gretzky Estates.

http://www.gretzkyestateswines.com/wines/99-series-1/99-baco-noir.html

Surely he does not have his own winery?

I should think his wines would all be rather puckish.

So which winery turns these WG wines out? Mission Hill/Inniskillin?

[Jenise]

I should think his wines would all be rather puckish.

God I love your sense of humor.

[Jenise]

So which winery turns these WG wines out? Mission Hill/Inniskillin?

Maybe neither. He has his name on Sonoma and Napa products, too.