This year Sandihurst began exporting wine to Canada. Our wines are imported through our agent Fred Lewis at Schoolhouse Wines in Ontario and sold through the LCBOs Vintages stores. We began exporting with our 2006 Canterbury Riesling earlier in the year and that wine recently won a silver medal in the 2008 Selections Mondiales des Vins Canada , the largest wine competition in North America.
Heres what NZ wine critic Michael Cooper had to say about the wine.
SANDIHURST RIESLING 2006 Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand
TASTING NOTE: The 2006 vintage was hand-picked in West Melton and Burnham vineyards, south-
west of Christchurch, and matured on its yeast lees for six months. It's a light, lemony, appleyCanterbury wine, gently sweet and crisp, with good flavour depth and slight earthy notes adding a
touch of European-style complexity. Worth cellaring.
Just so you know where to go and buy this wine, heres a list of the Vintages stores near you which stock the wine. Failing that please contact Fred or the team at Schoolhouse.
Fred came out and visited us in August this year and has subsequently added our 2007 Central Otago Pinot Noir and 2008 Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc to the list. You can contact Fred directly for those too.
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