Frontenac Noir & Frontenac Gris, Vineland, Ontario

A supremely spiced, botrytis-inflected hybrid mash-up from local wonder-kids. Bon Sang! is a new and dynamic Ontario producer making delicious, guzzle-able, and low intervention wine out of underrepresented hybrid and regional grapes from responsible growers across the province. ‘Intime’ is a blend of two hybrid grapes, savoury, deeply berried frontenac noir and herbaceous, mineral frontenac gris. Both grapes arrived with some botrytis, also called noble rot, a beneficial fungus that concentrates grapes and creates incredible densitiy of flavour. Here grapes were whole cluster macerated for three months, and then spent one year aging before being bottled at just the right time. Mulled wine energy in the best way, ripe, juicy raspberry, warm spices, smushed blackberry weight, a thickness in texture (hello botrytis), a wink of orange rind & balanced acidity that tingles like magic in the air. Give as a gift to your local-loving bestie, or drink yourself alongside the finest Ontario-grown haul: flat iron steak from Rowe Farms with butter from Monforte Dairy, potatoes, onions and carrots from Mount Wolfe Farm, and quince pithivier from Emmer for dessert.