Edward Rasiulis

One of Ontario’s best Chards

Description: Bright gold in colour with a medium+ intense nose. This wine features buttered toast, oak, lemon, green apple, pineapple, nectarine, peach, cashews, dill, ginger, butterscotch and peat smoke on the nose. Medium+ body with good acidity and a long length.

Negatives: None

Interesting Note: Priced on the higher end, but well worth it.

Drink now or in the next 7 years on its own or pair it with Sauteed Chilean Sea Bass with Ginger Poached Pears.

Tasted: 3 December 2016

Top Pick

Score: 9+/10, Value: 9/10 (Sale price: 9+/10) Total: 18+/20

Out of 5 stars, I rated this wine: 4+

Michael Godel

Hardie's Niagara Chardonnay will not be recessed into the Peninsula's everyday lexicon, nor does it draw any direct...

David Lawrason

This is lovely stuff - very elegant, taut but not at all austere. The nose has great lift with vanilla, cashew, peat...

Sara d'Amato

A chardonnay full of the pep and verve more commonly associated with Norm's County chardonnay. A refined oaky...

Norman Hardie Niagara Unfiltered Chardonnay 2013