WTN: '07 Hart's Steuben Rose'

2007 Hart's Wine Cellars, Steuben Rose', Bruce Giles Vineyard, Niagara County NY. Another nice wine from Howie. It gave a wonderblast of sweet red fruit on the nose and upfront. It the middle fresh strawberry and red cherry fruit combined very well with the off dry complexity. It finished nicely.

It matched very well with homemade sloppy joe's from the Food Network. Far from a humdrum Wednesday night.

Thanks for the note Carl.

Howie's Steuben is one of my favourite labrusca wines. Steuben itself is an interesting variety: its strawberry/rosewater aromas are not unlike those of Catawba. For some odd reason, though, there don't appear to be any Ontarian growers of Steuben. Clearly it could grow well here too, but no winery uses it.

Actually, Steuben is grown mostly as a table grape. They guy I buy the grapes from sells most of them to one of the larger supermarket chains. I like the wine it makes. It is my go to Thanksgiving wine - not because it pairs up with turkey, but with the entire meal - mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy cranberry sauce, squash, etc.