Frontenac Blanc & Frontenac Gris, Vineland, Ontario

A hybrid, spiced and positively scintillating Ontario skin-contact for capital ‘F’ freaks. If you haven’t heard of or tasted anything from Bon Sang! yet, where have you been?! JK welcome to the party. 🙂 Bon Sang! are a tiny producer of busy bees, making delicious, guzzle-able, and low intervention wine out of underrepresented hybrid and regional grapes sourced from responsible growers across Ontario. ‘Les Fleurs du Tapis’ translates roughly to tapestry of flowers (one whiff and you’ll know why) and is made from both a direct press of acid-driven, tropical frontenac blanc and honeyed, spiced frontenac gris to get a nice bit of juice, and then whole clusters of both grape varieties are added to the juice in a trempette style (picture a tea bag into hot water) for three months before being aged on lees for six months. Pineapple cooked down to a pulp, musky mysteries, mashed flowers, lychee lolli, prancing acidity that cuts the alcohol’s viscosity like a favourite pocketknife & so much concentration each sip feels distinctly spicy! In short, a rave in your mouth. Enjoy while playing flaming darts, mattress surfing with 20 of your best friends or teaching your cat to dance.