The 2018 version of this top blend is 62% Merlot, 24% Cabernet Franc and 14% Malbec with barrel aging in a combination of new and used French oak for 20 months and bottled unfiltered and unfined. I scored this beauty slightly higher even though it's extremely tight now and will benefit from the extra time in the bottle until the fall release. Upon vigorous swirling in the glass, it reveals its full potential in layers of cassis, black currants, blackberries and densely fruited black raspberries, cherries, and plums with subtle earthy/savoury notes and more overt spice notes. It's a bigger wine than the 2017 with a mouthful of dark berries, concentrated cherries and raspberries, lovely texture, ripe tannic structure, a touch of fresh turned soil, fine oak spice and rousing acidity keeping it all in check through the long, long, echoing finish. I hesitate to offer a cellar window beyond a decade, but this certainly has the stuffing to improve beyond that. Score - 95. (Rick VanSickle, winesinniagara.com, April 3, 2023)

The blend for the 2022 Nuit Blanche is 70% Sauvignon Blanc and 30% Semillon that's aged in mostly older French oak barrels for 10 months. The nose is a bit tight on opening, but let it breathe and an elegant, nuanced Bordeaux-style white blend begins to emerge with a nose of Asian pear, nectarine, crunchy apple, kiwi, flinty minerality and integrated spices. It's rich, flinty and persistent on the palate with grapefruit, passionfruit, herbs, fennel seed, and apple skin that benefits from a zesty, lively finish. Give it time to fully open up either in the cellar or by decanting. Can cellar to 2028. Score - 93. (Rick VanSickle, winesinniagara.com, June 27, 2024)

Delicate and restrained, with hints of lemon pith, wet stone and peach blossom, then a palate of canned peach and white pepper. Score - 90. (Decanter World Wine Awards, 2023)

The Terroir Caché is made every vintage at Hidden Bench as a Bordeaux-varietal red blend that is the little sister wine for the top La Brunante made only in vintages the estate feels makes the cut ... It's a blend of all three vineyards - Rosomel, Locust Lane and Felseck Vineyards - consisting of mostly Merlot, with the rest split between Cabernet Franc and Malbec. It's aged in 100% French oak (35% new) and the rest in older barrels for 20 months. What a treat to have two Bordeaux blends from the near perfect 2020 vintage released late for consumers. Both of these wines, says Thiel, are wines that are built to last 'for the ages.' It has a big, juicy nose of myriad dark berries, compoted red berries, cassis, anise, saddle leather, plums, dried Cuban tobacco and toasted vanilla bean and spice. The pureed red berries come to front on the palate, with dark chocolate, plums, cassis, blueberry pie and anise following behind. The tannins are ripe and structured and the long, echoing finish is lifted by mouthwatering acidity. Do not touch this for five years unless you decant it first and you can cellar to 2039. Score - 93. (Rick VanSickle, winesinniagara.com, June 27, 2024)

Made from 100% estate fruit organically grown on the Beamsville Bench. Fruit is whole-bunch pressed before fermentation in concrete using ambient yeast, after which the wine is aged 10 months in concrete and an additional eight in stainless steel before it's bottled unfiltered. Expansive and textured, it evokes lemon oil, crunchy yellow apple, oyster shell and sea salt and features a long, luxurious finish.

Again, similar oak regime as the Pinots above. The Locust Lane has a more herbaceous/floral nose than the other Pinots with fresher red berries, anise/licorice notes, crunchy pomegranate, and integrated spice notes. It's a more muscular wine on the palate with grippy tannins, red cherries, brambly raspberries, anise, dried herbs, fine oak spices and a fresh, finessed finish. Can cellar 7+ years for further development. Score - 94. (Rick VanSickle, winesinniagara.com, April 3, 2023)

This NWAC 2023 gold medalist sports wonderful lift, purity and precision. Riesling's aromatic prowess is front and centre with lifted, ripe pear/melon fruit, subtle petrol and a lovely spice I often get from older vine Niagara rieslings. It's mid-weight, just off-dry with fine and lime acidity and a typical Beamsville Bench mineral finish. Excellent length. A bit riper and richer than the lean, powerful intense [2019], but not the least flabbly. Tasted July 2023. Score - 92. (David Lawrason, winealign.com)

Composed entirely of estate fruit, this wine is based on Pinot Noir and crafted using a combination of direct-press and saignée techniques. It spent several months maturing in neutral French oak for extra roundness and texture. Bright and complex, it suggests strawberry sorbet, tart-cherry concentrate, fresh watermelon, stone fruit, and citrus zest.

Perfumed and fragrant, with bright raspberry, plush strawberry and pretty floral notes, then on to a textured palate of flinty, stony mineral, light spice, violet, small red berry fruit, crunchy blackberry and subtle, fine grained tannins. Score - 95. (Decanter World Wine Awards, 2023)