Featured Accolades
"Impressive concentration can't help but allow Amélie Boury's '16 cabernet sauvignon to exude confidence and emit positive energy with sparks of structure for a top quality vintage wine. It impresses of a violet hue, like adzuki bean paste and follows through with florals delicate enough to notice but never needing a loud cry to be noticed. Dark fruit is just like the centre of a dessert both sweet and savoury. It's all more practical and less abrupt than so many others, but also full of intention and meaning. Blockbuster cabs are quite frankly pointless and this is just the opposite; moving and immensely satisfying. Drink 2020-2026." 91 points -- Michael Godel, Godello.com, August 2019
"Basking in the warmth of St. David’s Bench, this cabernet sauvignon offers impressive colour and ripe tannins. Although the alcohol (at 13.5%) suggests a balanced, mid-weight wine, the mouthfeel is voluminous and tongue-coating. The generous nose offers an abundance of authentic blackberry, liquorice and graphite. The acidity is well in check but gives the palate necessary backbone and lift. Very good length. Ready to drink. Best now to 2025." 91 points -- Sara d'Amato, Winealign.com, September 2019
"Winemaker Amélie Boury continues to quietly and confidently turn out an extensive portfolio of quality estate wines from Château des Charmes in Niagara-on-the-Lake. This is a classic expression of Cabernet Sauvignon, with solid structure, bright acidity and youthful tannins. We used to call this an Old World style back when wine lovers knew the staid, stately and age-worthy character of Bordeaux reds as much as riper, fruity, fleshier expressions from California, Australia or other so-called New World regions. The mix of dark fruit, savoury notes and oak spice are on point. Drink now to 2026." 90 points -- Christopher Waters, Watersandwine.com, August 2019
This is estate fruit from the St. David’s Bench Vineyard. If any vintage can pull off a 100% Cab Sauvignon in Niagara it’s 2016 from one of the warmest sites in Niagara. Here we have an attractive nose of blackberries, anise, forest floor, savoury raspberries and bramble with elegant wood spices. It’s a medium bodied red with polished tannins, smoky/earthy notes, followed by dark fruits, spice notes and a finish that shows finesses and polish. A good candidate for the cellar, say 5+ years." 90 points -- Rick VanSickle, winesinniagara.com, August 2019
"Deep ruby-purple colour; cedary, blackcurrant jam nose with oak spice; medium-bodied, savoury, red and blackcurrant flavours with lively acidity and grainy tannins." 89 points -- Tony Aspler, tonyaspler.com, August 2019
From a nice ripe year (and thus only made in better years), loaded with choco-berry and mocha tones. One year in French oak, but still done in a Euro style as a food wine. 0.6 gm/L residual sugar; hence, a definite feel of minerality and extremely useful with food such as steak or any lamb cut." 91 points -- Dean Tudor, gothicpicures.com, September 2019
