Story: After the brutal embarrassment that was the Pyramid Winery, we wandered to St. Hubertus, near where Carmelis cheese is. It's a small winery, still recovering from a fire that destroyed their building and most of their vines in 2003. They tried recovering the crop for the year, but even the stuff that wasn't burnt to a crisp were so stained with soot that the resulting wine tasted of burnt garbage. They tossed the batch and decided to start anew.
The wines
-Fireman's red- at ten bucks a bottle, this is a steal and a nice easy drinking pinot.
Marechal Foch- Little too big for it's booties, somehow the flavours feel like they get away from you in the jammy tannin-filled swigs.
Gamay Noir- a varietal that I remember really enjoy from a tasting in Ottawa. Their gamay was also really good, but lacked the funky barnyard madness I was expecting, interestingly, they make a rose of the same grape.
Gamay Noir Rose- surprisingly spicy for a rose, a little different from the standard, though still fruity and feminine.
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