Made from 100% Bench vineyards on the Escarpment in Vineland and Beamsville, the impossibly complex bouquet darts between violets, classy, perfumed raspberries, and darker blue cherry-pit amaro fruit. On the palate, we have intensely fruity, iron-tinged mineral flavours with notes of anise. It finishes long and slately-clean, with even a hint of cherried vanilla. From the single vineyards of Hanck, Wismer-Parke, Wismer-Parke Wild West End, Saunders and McNally, it delivers the goods we have been waiting for: the rich, hauntingly-complex, limestone-mineral flavours of the Bench! It may be at its best from 2024-2029.
