The Decade's Best New World Chardonnays Are From ... Ontario?
A cool climate and limestone-rich soil combine to make perfect chardonnay growing terroir, and a wave of winemakers are taking advantage.
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The Kingston, Ontario, town crier, in fur-trimmed tricorn hat and bright red coat, rang a brass bell and shouted “Hear ye, hear ye” as the lead-in to my most surprising tasting this year: “The Judgement of Kingston.”
The blind competition, held Nov. 6, pitted such top California chardonnays as Chateau Montelena against those from Prince Edward County, a little-known, newly exciting wine region on the north shore of Lake Ontario.