Craft brewing comes to “wine country.” Prince Edward County is, in many respects, a home away from home, for Jess and I. Indeed, it is a place that is home to our hearts. If you’ve followed us and our story in these pages, you know that it is where we were engaged and where, last…
Layers
Life lands in layers Time but bricks of limestone A cracked cliff faces.” All text and photography © Dale Schierbeck See more of others’ submissions to the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge on “Face.” … and more Poetry from EatsWritesShoots here.
Karlo Estates – Lake on the Mountain Riesling (2010)
As popular as Karlo’s rosé (previously reviewed here), I would wager their biggest seller is probably this Riesling, and for good reason. As you will hear when you taste this wine at the winery, this wine is emblematic of Richard Karlo and his reputation for bringing balance and creativity into his wine. With a bit more upfront…
County Memories
Some places are so big that they can create a moment. Some moments, special in their second, create lifetimes. Every year, I along with my wonderful and very dear friends from Ottawa (and a few from the “Greater Ottawa Area” which, for the purposes of this blog, now includes Toronto) descend 3 hours south into…
Karlo Estates – Frontenac Gris Rosé (2011)
Nothing quite says summer heat like a good rosé. It’s the wine I reach for when I’m hot and parched but still want wine. While I’d almost always prefer a good red, in the heat of the summer, when the ambient outdoor temperature will warm a glass of red before you get through a few…
Keint-he Winery – Chardonnay (2009)
Moving to another burgeoning wine region of the country, Prince Edward County. This hidden peninsula is quietly tucked away between where Lake Ontario gives its final gasp and becomes the head waters of the St Lawrence, this is a relatively young wine producing region with some delicious secrets that I’ve quite grown to love…
Circle of Fire … Watchers
Fire ◊ Light ◊ Friendship The glow and heat of its embers; the crack of the timber; the rise of the smoke and sparks. Our primordial DNA ignites and we drift through epochs and are united in the primacy of our existence … and our past. In the that moment, that flicker of fire, our friendships…