Some Grilling with the Toronto Cru (Toronto, ON): (Tasted Blind) heavy bricking on this. Clearly an old wine with many guesses in the 80's or early 90's. The nose is of old sweet cedar, herbs, seasoned old leather, green bell pepper, spice, black raspberries, perfume and celery seed. Evidently a lean wine. The palate really does show the leanness, but is still alive and is driven on black raspberry, tart cherries, herbs and green bell pepper. the finish isn't terribly long. I didn't get an official guess in but would have landed on an off-year Bordeaux like '93 or '97. This had some guessing Dunn, Dominus or Bordeaux. Impressive that this Niagara red held up. I've had other older Trius reds that haven't held up so well so I think this was just an exceptional vintage. The person who purchased it on release (Darcy) indicated that it was great on release. Well done!
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6/5/2015 - Wine Canuck wrote: 91 Points
Some Grilling with the Toronto Cru (Toronto, ON): (Tasted Blind) heavy bricking on this. Clearly an old wine with many guesses in the 80's or early 90's. The nose is of old sweet cedar, herbs, seasoned old leather, green bell pepper, spice, black raspberries, perfume and celery seed. Evidently a lean wine. The palate really does show the leanness, but is still alive and is driven on black raspberry, tart cherries, herbs and green bell pepper. the finish isn't terribly long. I didn't get an official guess in but would have landed on an off-year Bordeaux like '93 or '97. This had some guessing Dunn, Dominus or Bordeaux. Impressive that this Niagara red held up. I've had other older Trius reds that haven't held up so well so I think this was just an exceptional vintage. The person who purchased it on release (Darcy) indicated that it was great on release. Well done!
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11/1/2011 - dkfinancial wrote: 88 Points
Pop and pour this one. Cassis and earthy flavours. Faded fast - 30 min after opening, was mostly bell pepper. Drink up.
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10/1/2011 - dkfinancial wrote: 87 Points
Decent cassis flavours. Do not decant - pop and pour. Turns leafy and vegetal after just an hour.
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10/22/2010 - Jhcwine wrote: 88 Points
October-22-2010 - Toronto Wine Cru - Wine Spectator Off-line tasting event
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