This Grimsby Hillside Frontier Block has the most integrated nose of everything we love about the Niagara Benchlands. In effect, the benches are terraces that come at different altitudes of the Escarpment. The Frontier Block is so named because it's the last or “La Frontière” vineyard in Niagara before you get into Hamilton's jurisdiction. There’s lemon, of course there's lanolin, there's some slight baking spices, some slight white florals, yellow florals, orchard fruits, combined with complex citrus fruits, minerals, saline hints. It's tight. It's expressive. It's a darker minerality in the mouth, not a bright one! We're definitely feeling dolomitic limestone here, perhaps less salinity and a little more chalkiness. Note that this vineyard is in the Lincoln Lakeshore VQA, and, as such, currently not classifiable as Bench. But we know it is. We'll get there someday…

A word from Mary: Limestone-derived Anis on the mid-palate, white florals deliver perfume & crunchy limestone.

Drinking prime: Now – 2030

Best fruit window: 2023 – 2028

Cases produced: 100