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Which wines will you be serving this Thanksgiving weekend? Harvest moon has certainly changed the weather to cooler autumn temperatures but…did you know rosé wines are considered by many – including our Savvy Sommeliers – the best wines to serve with any Thanksgiving feast. With the myriad of fresh-out-of-the-garden ingredients, rosé wines rule the Thanksgiving table whether roast turkey, ham or pork is on the menu.
In this month’s One Dozen Rosés, you will find a delicious assortment of rosé wines crafted in Ontario. Our team of Savvy Sommeliers tasted numerous bottles and hand-picked this selection. Grab your corkscrew or pop that cork on these rosé wines to enjoy as the leaves are turning a whole new gamut of pink hues.
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And in the Rosé Recipe Box below, we collected interesting recipes to pair well with these wines.
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Cheers to you & your family over Thanksgiving!
–Debbie and the Savvy Team
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In this case of One Dozen Rosés you will find…
Roséhall Run Pixie Sparkling Rosé
$17.95
Prince Edward County
Sometimes a look says it all. A sip of this wine frequently brings a smile. “It’s a happy wine”, commented Savvy Sommelier Eva. It is so easy to drink…that it is hard to put down.
Savvy Sommelier Tasting Notes: Roséhall Run’s winemaker & winery owner – Dan Sullivan – blended Riesling, Chardonnay and Zwiegelt grapes to create this one-of-a-kind mouthwatering sparkling wine. Aromas & tastes of wild strawberries, juicy watermelon with zesty hints of lime & rhubarb. The nice clean finish is dry with a crispness that lingers until the next sip…and the next…and the next…
Suggested Food Pairing: This is a bubbly for any – make that every – occasion. An excellent wine to pop open when friends come over unexpectedly, or those nights when you pick up an assortment of sushi or pack for a picnic. Here is a perfect food & wine combo – Thai Long Bean Salad – from our foodies friends at Ontario Culinary Tourism Alliance.
Roséhall Run Just One Rosé VQA 2014
$17.95
Prince Edward County
Roséhall’s winemaker Dan Sullivan does it again! He shows off his talent for making fine wines in ‘The County’.
Savvy Sommelier Tasting Notes: A gorgeous salmon colour in the glass makes way for delicate yet zippy aromas & tastes of rhubarb, cranberry, sour cherry, floral & citrus (think pink grapefruit).
Suggested Food Pairing:This light bodied & delicate wine can easily be overpowered with food, so chill for about 30 minutes in the fridge then uncork this bottle(er…we should say unscrew the cap) to sip on its own. If you are peckish, here are some pairings: smoked salmon, chilled shrimp or a spinach salad. For something a bit bolder in flavour, here’s a recipe for Fire Roasted Root Vegetable that is a twist for fall.
Chateau des Charmes Cuvée d’Andrée Rosé VQA 2014
$14.95
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Who is Andrée? She is the winery matriarch. A vibrant personality and Bosc family member, this wine captures her joie de vivre.
Sommeliers Tasting Notes: A vibrant watermelon colour, this wine is a classic ‘old school’ Rosé wine from the moment it is poured into your glass. The striking pink colour makes a statement. Made from Pinot Noir, aromas will remind you of fresh strawberries, cranberries, even juicy watermelon that continues into the fresh taste with an added zing of lemon on the finish that makes you want another sip…and another!
Suggested Food Pairings: This would be perfect for roast ham, turkey with cranberry sauce & your favorite Brussel sprout recipe or here is a neat recipe for turkey left overs Warm Sweet Potato Jerk Chicken Salad (substitute chicken for turkey)
The Good Earth Rosé VQA 2014
$17.95
20 Valley (Niagara)
An interesting dinner table convo starter: Good Earth used advanced optical sorting equipment – new technology used in Niagara – to have the cleanest Cabernet Franc grapes possible for this wine.
Sommeliers Tasting Notes: This is the fullest bodied wine in your ‘bouquet’. Cherries, cherries and more cherries! Ok, with some strawberries and a zip of mint that makes a joy to drink.
Suggested Food Pairing: In the Recipe Box below we pulled out a Roasted Red Pepper Tart to pair with this wine. Other dishes that would be a great match –grilled pork tenderloin, turkey (of course!) or a cheesey linguine dish (with ham and peas would do the trick!)
Fielding Estates Rosé 2014
$15.95
Beamsville Bench (Niagara)
Sommeliers Tasting Notes: Let your mind wander back to your childhood to pull out memories of sweet and sour candy like gummy bears and juicy fruit gum. Add to those thoughts fresh over ripe juicy raspberries! This rosé wine is loaded with delicious flavours that conjure up great memories.
Suggested Food Pairing: One dish we can’t get enough of is Fish Tacos. Restaurants, bistros even food trucks are battling it out to make the best in town. Get into the action and mix up your favorite combo of fish & fresh ingredients using this recipe from Taco Farm as a guide.
Pondview Cabernet Franc Rosé VQA 2014
$14.95
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Savvy Sommelier Tasting Notes: How can you make summer linger longer? Drink Rosé wine – this one will definitely do the trick! Pink salmon in colour with refreshingly youthful aromas of cranberry and strawberry. The cranberry aroma also comes across on the palate along with pink grapefruit and a hint of rosé petals. This medium bodied wine has great acidity along with a crisp mouth feel and a medium length cranberry finish.
Suggested Food Pairing: Enjoy all on its own or pair with a garden fresh salad, lamb burgers or cheese, paté and charcuterie. Our long time Savvy Selections subscriber Susan Lunn offers her family favorite Seafood Chowder recipe to enjoy with this rosé wine.
~ Rosé Recipe Box ~
Fall favorites to enjoy with your One Dozen Rosés
With Roséhall Run Pixie…
Thai Long Bean Salad
From OCTA’s staff – Agatha Podgorski
Serves 4
“At this time of year, I have a glut of garden fresh tomatoes, cucumbers and green beans. I’m all over the tart and spicy Thai-inspired salad! It’s got just the right amount of heat, some decent crunch and it pairs perfectly with anything done on the barbeque.”
–Agatha Podgorski, OCTA Communications & Membership Manager
Ingredients
2 dried chiles, soaked for 2 minutes in warm water, drained
3 small garlic cloves, chopped fine
9 long beans or handful of green beans, cut into 2 1/2′
2 cucumbers, coarsely chopped into 1′ pieces
6 tomatoes, coarsely chopped into 1′ pieces
2 Tbsp crushed, roasted, unsalted peanuts
2 Tbsp Thai fish sauce
2 Tbsp fresh lime juice
¼ lime, cut into 3 wedges
Method
Mix together fish sauce, lime juice, sugar, garlic and chilies.
Add green beans and cucumber to dressing. Stir and crush lightly with back of spoon.
Add tomatoes, stir to combine.
Let marinate for 10 minutes. Stir in peanuts.
With Roséhall Run Just One Rosé …
Fire Roasted Root Vegetables
From Chef Tom Wade at Farmhouse Tavern
Serves 8
Ingredients
3lbs small carrots with tops
1lb fingerling potatoes
2 Tbsp canola oil
1 garlic clove
3 tbsp pine nuts
½ cup (packed) fresh basil leaves
¼ cup finely grated Parmesan
½ cup extra-virgin olive oil
Kosher salt, freshly ground pepper
Method
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
Cut each jalapeño in half-length wise. Remove seeds and ribs, but leave on the stems. Be careful not to rub your eyes! (a rookie mistake!).
Mix cheeses together in a bowl until evenly blended.
Fill each jalapeño half with the cheese mixture – like a little pepper boat.
Gently wrap each stuffed pepper half with a half slice of bacon. You may need to secure it with a tooth pick if the slice of bacon is too short.
Arrange bacon-wrapped peppers on the prepared baking sheet. Bake in the preheated oven until bacon is crispy, about 15 minutes.
With Chateau des Charmes Cuvée Andrée Rosé…
Warm Sweet Potato Jerk Chicken Salad
From Ontario Culinary Tourism Association
Serves 4
Here’s the perfect use-what’s-in-the-fridge dish. This taste-tested dish combines sweet, spicy, and salty with various textures, my favourite way to go. This warm, hearty salad is perfect for the fall when it’s getting a little cooler out and the Summer leafy salads are just not serving their purpose anymore. The candied walnuts and blue cheese are the real stars in this one, though, providing the added crunch as well as savoury flavors that elevate the sweet potato while offsetting the spice from the jerk. Enjoy!
Ingredients
2 chicken breasts, boneless/skinless
2 sweet potatoes, diced
2 cups kale, chopped
1 cup crumbled Blue Buffalo Cheese
½ Tbsp Dijon mustard
½ cup plain or candied walnuts
½ lemon, juice
¼ cup pumpkin seeds
¼ cup flat leaf parsley, chopped
¼ cup sunflower oil
Salt and pepper to taste
Method
Marinate the chicken breasts (12 hours is perfect) in your favourite jerk seasoning or create your own, making sure to include scotch bonnet peppers, fresh thyme, and allspice.
Bake the chicken breasts in a preheated 350F oven for 25-30min, let cool and then cut into cubes.
Peel, cube, and boil the sweet potatoes then drain and throw the kale on top to wilt while you’re preparing the rest of the salad.
Whisk the lemon juice, sunflower oil, and mustard into a large bowl.
Add the warm sweet potatoes, chicken, kale, and pumpkin seeds, and parsley into the large bowl with dressing; toss and add salt and pepper to taste.
Sprinkle over the plain or candied walnuts (or candy your own: heat a knob of butter with ½ cup of brown sugar and ¼cup maple syrup, toss in a cup of walnut, give is a stir, then pour out and let cool on parchment)
With Good Earth Rosé…
Roasted Red Pepper Tart
From Chef Nathan Young
Serves 4
Always looking for fresh and delicious recipes to serve to your vegetarian friends? Well, thanks to the team at Ravine Vineyard Restaurant — here’s a keeper! Extra super bonus – you can find hydroponically grown peppers and eggplants all year round by visiting greenhouses across Ontario.
As of January 5th 2015, Executive Chef Ross Midgley has taken over the kitchen brigade at Ravine Vineyard. Born and raised in Prince Edward Island, Ross attended The Culinary Institute of Canada.
He has held positions in some of Ontario’s most renowned restaurants including The Globe Restaurant, Tiara at Queen’s Landing and four years as Sous Chef for Hillebrand Estates. In 2011, he was hired by Canadian food icon, Jamie Kennedy, to open Windows, continuing his love for Niagara’s seasons in his menus. Ross returned to Niagara-on-the-Lake as Executive Chef for the last busy season at Stone Road Grille.
He shares a common vision with Ravine, which is to create menus with locally sourced and organically inspired ingredients. We’ll toast to that!
Ingredients
1 whole eggplant
3 whole red peppers
1 sheet prepared puff pastry
1 Tbsp sheep’s milk cream cheese (try Monforte)
2 Tbsp eggplant puree
4 Tbsp roasted red peppers
Method
Roast papers whole in the oven at 450F for 20 minutes or until the skin states to blister. (Peel and seed peppers then cut into thin strips and set aside)
Cut eggplant in half and brush the flesh with olive oil, season with salt and pepper. Roast for 35 minutes at 425F.
Scoop out the flesh of the eggplant and puree in a food processor until smooth.
Cut a circle of puff pastry using a cookie cutter and spread eggplant puree in the middle of the tart, pile red pepper on top of the puree. Bake tart for 15-20 minutes at 435F until puff pastry is golden brown.
Top tart with Monforte sheep’s milk cream cheese.
With Fielding Estates Rosé…
Fish Tacos
From TACO FARMERS
Serves 2
Taco Farm is an interpretation of Canada’s Mexico; they are not Mexican, El Salvadorian or even Latin American; they are farmers, TACO FARMERS!
As TACO FARMERS they support small, local farms. They stock their shelves the same way we do at home, and they make everything in house. TACO FARM is a collaboration between Ryan Good of Chainsaw and Nick and Nat Benninger of Uptown 21 – both restaurants located in Waterloo It’s just one of the Feast ON Certified reasons to visit KW – soon!
Ingredients
1lb Tortillas (try Fresh Taco Farm)
Manic Chili Banger, or hot sauce of your choice
For Fried Fish
1lb yellow perch
1 Tbsp chopped cilantro
1 Tbsp lime juice
Salt and pepper to taste
1 cup Masa1 Tbsp paprika
1 Tbsp garlic powder
2 cups yellow corn flour
1 cup corn starch
1 Tbsp baking powder
1 can soda water
4 cups canola oil
Salt & pepper to taste
For Crudito
2 cups shredded cabbage
1 cup shredded carrots
2 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
Salt to taste
For Farm Sauce
1 cup Crema La Vaquita
¼ cup chopped green onion
1 Tbsp lime juice
1 Tbsp dry chipotle
1 Tbsp Mexican cinnamon
1 Tbsp cumin
Salt to taste
With Pondview Cabernet Rosé…
A Taste from Home: My Mom’s Seafood Chowder
From the kitchen of Susan Lunn –
CBC Reporter (originally from Bedford, NS)
Serves 8
Mom would always serve this when I went home to visit…and we would fight over the leftovers!
Ingredients
1.5 lbs of fresh fish, filets (haddock preferably)
1.5 lbs chowder mix (shrimp, scallops etc – go to a good fish monger for this)
1 tin lobster of claws & tails
6 potatoes peeled and diced1 onion, coarsely chopped
1 tin Carnation Milk (the secret to this recipe! Every Nova Scotian has some in their pantry)
1 litre homogenized milk (tip: don’t do skim!)
Salt& Pepper
Lemon pepper parsley, chopped (My Mom used dried)
Butter
Additional items that can added:
1 tin crab meat
1-2 carrots, cut into coins (for colour)
Fresh coriander, chopped
Dash of Refined Olive’s Persian Lime infused Olive Oil to finish
Method
Melt butter (a few Tbsp) into a large pot. Add potatoes and onion. Sautée until soft. Lay fish filets over the vegetables, add in chowder mix & lobster, then pour water over top – enough to cover fish and vegetables.
Add salt and pepper. Simmer until cooked.
In a separate pot, bring both milks to a warm temperature. Add to main pot of vegetables & fish. Simmer for half an hour. Add parsley and lemon pepper to taste.
Serve with crusty white dinner rolls – preferably the ones from Sobeys (a NS company – of course!)
That’s a wrap!
Our Savvy Sommeliers definitely drink Rosé wine year round, yet sometimes these wines are so popular that inventory runs out before the summer sunshine.
We will be offering One Dozen Rosé next year – kicking off in May 2016 – with an entire new One Dozen Rosés bouquet to enjoy. In the meantime, call on the Savvy Team to order additional bottles of your new found favorite Rosés featured in any of our Rosé Reports. Simply call us on 613-SAVVYCO (728-8926).
Continue to have fine Ontario wines delivered.
Throughout the year we are happy to arrange hard-to-find Ontario wines shipped right to your door for a special event or to have on hand. Consider us your own Personal Sommelier! We are just a phone call away 613-SAVVYCO (728-8926).
Cheers & Happy Thanksgiving!
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