2023 Viognier

2023 Viognier

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Varietals, Vineyard & Harvest: 100% Viognier, grown and hand-harvested at Black Bank Hill on October 7 and 10, 2023 at 21.8 and 22.2 brix respectively.

Winemaking: The grapes for this wine were de-stemmed and lightly crushed prior to pressing and being racked into third-plus use French oak barrels and fermented using wild/ambient yeasts. Élevage was 19-months on lees in same French oak. The wine was blended and estate-bottled unfiltered and unfined on 25 July 2025.

Wine Description: Pale lemon colour. Aromas of pear, grapefruit, chamomile, white peach and orange liqueur.  The palate continues with apricot, orange marmalade, lime, dried ginger and marzipan.   Medium-plus in weight with balanced acidity, the wine shows a rounded and creamy mouthfeel framed by a light toastiness showing potential for the fruit and weight to continue to flesh out with age in bottle.

Acidity & pH: TA 6.46 g/L, Malic acid 0.29 g/L, pH 3.3

Sweetness: Dry on the palate containing 2.8 g/L residual sugar

Alcohol by Volume: 14.0%

Production: 144 cases

 

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Independent Wine Reviews

David Lawrason – 91 points, Value Rating: 5/5

This is not a one off. The young estate vines have produced lighter, but stylish viognier from three years now. This is bright and poised. Expect sweet spiced pear, tea, vanillin, acacia blossom - not intense but fine pointed. It is medium weight, sweet-edged with a lick of acetic, very smooth, custardy, impressive flavour concentration. Excellent length. Tasted October 2025

Michael Godel – 91 points, Value Rating: 5/5

Similar heft and unction to the Fraternité yet sharper, a bit more pin-pointedness and a varietal wine that delivers utmosttransparency of itself. Drier and of that wet concrete note that helps with refreshment and focus. Acidity is again elevated yet here at a point and number pretty much right where you want that to be when considering the rest of the package. There is an herbal streak and that works well to become another tie that binds. Really classy viognier as much as any made in Ontario. Drink 2026-2030. Tasted October 2025.

John Szabo, MS – 91 points, Value Rating: 4/5

An estate-grown, barrel-fermented viognier aged 19 months in old french oak barriques, Black Bank Hill's 2023 viognier from the Lincoln Lakeshore is a broad and ripe, intensely-flavoured, palate-warming white wine at 14% alc. declared. Rugged phenolics drag on the palate - there's a brut, raw, rustic edge to the intensity, though I like the tonic-bitter flavours that balance the ripe, yellow-fleshed orchard fruit. It won't be accused of being overly refined and delicate; serve with roasted white meats, chicken or pork with morels in the spring, or squash in the fall. Good, solid density and length in the end; try to tuck in the cellar for at least 2-3 years for best results. Tasted October 2025.

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