Search This Blog   Tuesday, February 5, 2008  Ontario Wine
Society: Lailey and Southbrook Chardonnays  The Time and Date:
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 6:30PM to 8 PM  The Event:
Southbrook/Lailey Chardonnay Vertical Tasting  The Venue:
Ontario Wine Society at U of T Faculty Club  The Target
Audience: OWS members and guests. Fifty people attended.  The
Availability/Catalogue: we tasted eight wines, four from Lailey
(2000-2006) and four from Southbrook (1997-2000). These are
wines from two different wineries, but using the same grape
source (Lailey Vineyards) and the same winemaker, Derek Barnett
(for vintage 2000, he made the Southbrook Chardonnay but did not
bottle it). Both Derek and Bill Redelmeier (Southbrook)
commented on the wines. All wines were basically treated the
same way: French oak, barrel fermentation, barrel aging, and
malo-lactic  The Quote: "Lailey Vineyards' chardonnay grapes
have been growing since 1973, and they have achieved Old Vine
status. But with the 2003 and 2005 vintages, a lot of the o