Sara d'Amato

From the excellent 2020 vintage, this cabernet franc is sourced from two sites in the Beamsville Bench and Creek...

National Wine Awards of Canada

Average final score from judges at the 2022 National Wine Awards of Canada. Tasted blind June 2022.

Jennifer Huether, MS

Savoury green sage notes with sour cherry and red currants. Very big but still fresh. Big tannins but refined. Very...

Michael Godel

The vintage is a most successful one for the Emma Garner-Thirty Bench-Peller Wines trilogy as it pertains to cabernet...

John Szabo, MS

Ripe and spicy, very much in the Cabernet Franc idiom, Thirty Bench's blend from across the Peninsula is showing well...

David Lawrason

This excellent Niagara vintage has packed in good ripeness and richness. Expect generous raspberry/cherry jam fruit,...

todd10

Aromas and taste of dark fruit. I drank this wine over two hours or so. When I first opened this wine, that is when I felt it had the most potential. Probably about an hour later I felt this wine got muted taking down this score. The odd thing is near the end it was good again? I have never had the roller coaster ride of wine being good, not good and then good again in the same night.

Tasted January 2025

Thirty Bench Winemaker's Blend Cabernet Franc 2020