The first (of at least two) annual wine tasting ride.
By popular vote, I am updating the post to reflect the choice:
BEAMSVILLE AREA
We'll commence at Kittling Ridge and grab a few bottles of Maple Liqueur and select oak cask whiskey. The winery opens at 10:00am on Saturday. The group will meet there and spend no more than 45min sampling their products and making various purchases. For those that come on their own, take the Casablanca exit off the QEW, turn right off the ramp, and make a left at the first intersection (follow the signs). Please be there and ready to leave by 10:30am.
From here we'll get back onto the QEW and exit at #64 (Ontario Street) where we'll bypass Magnotta and instead head backwards along the South Service Road to the brand new The Good Earth where I have no idea what we'll find. After this it's the tight cluster of 7 wineries including Rosewood Estates and their white wine selection, then across the street is Thirty Bench with some interesting reds and whites; just a few hundred meters beyond is the Angels Gate where the views are spectacular but the wine is questionable. After this we'll visit the brand new Organized Crime Winery with some select blends; the Fielding Estate and their blended options are just around the corner, and we'll return past East Dell Estates (more reds and whites, non-descript) and Hidden Bench which was hidden to us last time we went to this area. In closing, we'll stop at Crown Bench Estates to buy some of their fruit wines and Hot Ice, Ginger Ice, and whatever other Ice they invented last year - and close with deSousa Winery which exchanged hands and owners but hopefully still have the best Chardonnay Musqué in the province. Lunch will likely be somewhere on king Street in Beamsville.
MEETING SPOTS:
Downtown riders: please be at the Shell gas station (west side of Spadina south of King Street) ready to leave by 8:15am.
West End (Mississauga): please be at the Esso gas station (west side of Erin Mills @ Leanne) ready to leave by 9:00am.
Group meet: please be ready to leave Kittling Ridge Winery no later than 10:45am.
Remember that, as will all my wine tasting rides in the past, DRINKING AND RIDING WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!!
By popular vote, I am updating the post to reflect the choice:
BEAMSVILLE AREA
We'll commence at Kittling Ridge and grab a few bottles of Maple Liqueur and select oak cask whiskey. The winery opens at 10:00am on Saturday. The group will meet there and spend no more than 45min sampling their products and making various purchases. For those that come on their own, take the Casablanca exit off the QEW, turn right off the ramp, and make a left at the first intersection (follow the signs). Please be there and ready to leave by 10:30am.
From here we'll get back onto the QEW and exit at #64 (Ontario Street) where we'll bypass Magnotta and instead head backwards along the South Service Road to the brand new The Good Earth where I have no idea what we'll find. After this it's the tight cluster of 7 wineries including Rosewood Estates and their white wine selection, then across the street is Thirty Bench with some interesting reds and whites; just a few hundred meters beyond is the Angels Gate where the views are spectacular but the wine is questionable. After this we'll visit the brand new Organized Crime Winery with some select blends; the Fielding Estate and their blended options are just around the corner, and we'll return past East Dell Estates (more reds and whites, non-descript) and Hidden Bench which was hidden to us last time we went to this area. In closing, we'll stop at Crown Bench Estates to buy some of their fruit wines and Hot Ice, Ginger Ice, and whatever other Ice they invented last year - and close with deSousa Winery which exchanged hands and owners but hopefully still have the best Chardonnay Musqué in the province. Lunch will likely be somewhere on king Street in Beamsville.
MEETING SPOTS:
Downtown riders: please be at the Shell gas station (west side of Spadina south of King Street) ready to leave by 8:15am.
West End (Mississauga): please be at the Esso gas station (west side of Erin Mills @ Leanne) ready to leave by 9:00am.
Group meet: please be ready to leave Kittling Ridge Winery no later than 10:45am.
Remember that, as will all my wine tasting rides in the past, DRINKING AND RIDING WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!!
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