Cattail Creek Estate Series Chardonnay Musque 2011, VQA Four Mile Creek

The night I reviewed this wine was my birthday, and on birthdays I drink special wines. My roommate K made me delicious mac and cheese with bacon and it was the perfect filling meal to precede a birthday party! We drank my mom's favourite wine, a 2011 Chardonnay Musque from Cattail Creek, a small batches vineyard on Niagara on the Lake. At $17.95 a bottle, this is a birthday wine, NOT an everyday wine, but that's ok, because the little bit of sparkle makes it feel special.

A -This wine is lemony, peachy, and sparkly all at once. It is a bit like the Fresca of wines, citrusy, not too sweet, and still sparkilling. It is dry but also sweet. It smells very fruity as well, but more like tropical fruits than the light fruits you get when you taste it. In fact, it smells like my body wash, which is a good thing. It tastes and smells heavily of vanilla.

K- This wine smells very fruity. It smells like white fruits, like peaches, white grapes, etc. It is not as fruity as it smells, though I still like the pear taste I get to start, I don't like the aftertaste. While it is above nail polish remover wine, I still wasn't feeling it. It has a slightly syrupy start, but finishes like burning (alcoholy, covering the whole tongue).

L- This wine is sparkly and sweet (quite heavily both of these things). It tastes like pears. It has a kind of acidy aftertaste though and is very heady. It tastes like it has more alcohol than normal wines. It has the exciting finish of cough medecine sweetness followed by the same fruity, alcoholly, finish.