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Inniskillin - Dark Horse Meritage

Producer: Inniskillin
Name: Dark Horse Meritage
Varietal: Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage: 2006
Region: Okanagan, Canada
Price: ~ $25

The Inniskillin Meritage was the first wine that really started piquing my interest in how wine was made. When I was bartending I would sit down with a bottle of this after almost every shift. Thinking about the blend and why they did what they did. Comparing the current vintage with past vintages and how things have changed. A wonderful wine simply for my own selfish and sentimental reasons.

The bouquet is rich with cassis, black cherry, chocolate, earthy notes. It's a full bodied wine with a long dry finish. Tastes of spice, dark berries and chocolate, this wine is balanced and complex that keeps you sitting and contemplating at the bar until the late hours of the night.

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Dan Aykroyd - Discovery Series

Producer: Dan Aykroyd
Name: Discovery Series
Vintage: 2007
Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot
Region: Niagra Peninsula, Canada
Price: ~ $14

Remember the Blues Brothers? Fairly famous blues band/sketch that everyone loved from the late 70s to the 80s? Yeah, this wine is nothing like that. You would expect it to be a down-and-dirty, bold but smooth wine to match the rhythmic blues of the band. But it doesn't. And if it doesn't, then there shouldn't be a stage mic on the label. Just doesn't even make sense. I get it Dan; you like blues and wine. But in your case it is not a good match (your no Greg Norman).

Along with a clear and thin appearance, the bouquet smells of spice and dark cherries and has a slight mineral or stone scent. It tasted of oak, blackberries and spice with a quick dry finish. The tannins were a little sharp and the overall body of the wine was too thin for my liking. I think that the ingredients are there to produce a pretty good wine but the 2007 vintage is not doing it for me.

Sorry Danny, maybe try Coneheads 2?