Fielding Estate Winery 2009 Viognier - 90-91pts

Fielding Estate Winery 2009 Viognier (Beamsville Bench) Niagara Peninsula - Ontario

Availability: Direct from winery here
Cost: $30
Alcohol: 13.5%
Date Tasted: August 8th, 2010

Tasting Notes: Having tasted many outstanding BC Viognier offerrngs over the years, we've passed over Ontario examples in favour of Niagara's white wine specialties: Chardonnay and Riesling. No longer. The Fielding Estate Winery 2009 Viognier is a marvelous wine that will make you take notice of the varietal in the Niagara Peninsula.

The luscious nose offers intense aromas of pears and baked apples with lovely perfume notes and a vein of slate minerality. The ever-so-slightly, off-dry palate produces an excellent balance between acid and intense fruit flavours of melons, apples and tropical fruits. Layers of mineral and citrus await you; a complex wine to be sure. The finish is long with a lingering, intriguing combo of austere minerality and spice. Very well done.

Enjoy now with spicy food or on its own. Or cellar for another 1-2 years for further development.
 - Liam Carrier ©copyright 2010 (with Hugh Carter)

Fielding Estate Winery 2008 Un-Oaked Chardonnay - 87pts

Fielding Estate Winery 2008 Un-Oaked Chardonnay (Niagara Peninsula) Ontario

Availability: Direct from winery here
Cost: $15.95
Alcohol: 12.5%
Date Tasted: August 8th, 2010

Tasting Notes: For white wine lovers who prefer a crisp expression of fruit flavours rather than an oaked set-piece, the 2008 Un-Oaked Chardonnay from Beamsville Bench producer Fielding Estate Winery is the wine for you. Light, pale straw in colour with aromatic, candied-lemon, mineral and orchard fruit aromas. The palate is subtle with medium acidity (a bit low for a Chardonnay that hasn't been through malolactic fermentation) and medium body. Good continuity of aromas to flavours with the palate also showing a touch of tropical fruit. Enjoy this wine young.
 - Liam Carrier ©copyright 2010

Fielding Estate Winery 2007 Pinot Gris - 84 pts

Fielding Estate Winery 2007 Pinot Gris (Beamsville Bench) Ontario

Decanted: 0 hr

Cost: $18.95 (direct from winery)

Tasting Notes: Fielding makes some exceptional whites for reasonable prices. The Pinot Gris had peach and green apple on the nose. The palate was off-dry and peach fruit with a crisp finish.

Fielding has done an excellent job at marketing their products. As an Ontarian I love cottage country and Fielding seems to have this in mind with their Muskoka Chair label. I enjoyed many a good fielding wine while sitting in a Muskoka chair at my in-laws Ahmic Lake cottage. - HC

Fielding Estate 2006 Red Conception - 86pts

Fielding Estate Winery 2006 Red Conception (Beamsville Bench – Ontario)

Decanted: 0 hr

Cost: $19.00

Tasting notes: A very nice blended red. The nose is cherry, and caramel. The palate is smooth and tastes of cherry and vanilla with a full mouth feel. The finish was long and enjoyable.

Fielding is a great winery in the Beamsville Bench with exquisite views of vineyards, lake Ontario, and the Toronto skyline on the horizon. The whites were exceptional at this winery and reasonably priced. This red was one of their standouts and at $19 could be on the regular rotation. While there was not really an Icon Investment Grade wine in the flight, Fielding had a great list of quality wines and the staff at the winery were extremely nice. Definitely worth visiting. This wine was tasted twice at the Ahmic Lake cottage, both times with family and good friends. Once on the beach by itself while looking over the lake and the second time paired with apple pie and ice cream. Both pairings were great. - HC