Two Sisters Unoaked Chardonnay VQA 2021

Tasting Notes

Making Ontario chardonnay without any aging time in barrel suggests a Chablis AOC stylistic and for the most part that is true. The difference for Two Sisters is two-fold; one is the warm Niagara River sub-app and the second but clearly most important is the 1959 planted chardonnay vineyard, generally accepted as Canada's oldest. There were actually even older vines in Grinsby, but they were experimental (at the farm owned by Parkdale Wines) and those vines were eliminated long ago. But this wine is about 1959, amongst other vines and ideals, here as luxe and concentrated as any local chardonnay. The freshness and spirit here are exceptional and this wine should be famous, not merely almost and the time has come for more consumers to know it by name. Penny Lane would say honey, you're too sweet for rock and roll but while that might apply to other chardonnays, this unoaked by Two Sisters rocks the joint. Drink 2024-2028. Tasted May 2024. (Michael Godel,winealign.com)