Leaning Post 2024 Gamay

Nose: Notes of black cherry, mulberry, and raspberry, with an amazing white and pink pepper spice over a background of moss and leather.

Palate: Complementary flavours of Bing cherry, blackberry, vanilla bean, anise, and basil-smoked sausage.

Finish: Fantastically long and smooth.

Enjoy with roast chicken, chicken tagine with apricots and olives, pork sausages, duck with plum sauce, or turkey with chestnut stuffing.

Delicious on release; will age well for the next 4-6 years.

Hubel Creek Vineyard – 100%

An exceptionally warm, sunny growing season with cooler September weather created optimal conditions for Gamay — a season that allows the variety to build great intensity and ripeness while keeping alcohol moderate.

2025 had an exceptionally warm, sunny growing season with weather cooling in September to create optimal conditions for Gamay, allowing it to build great intensity and ripeness at moderate alcohol. Hand-picked from Hubel Creek Vineyard in late September.

Hand-picked, the grapes were left to cold soak for 6 days prior to fermentation, which began in concrete fermentors. The skins were punched down by hand twice a day for 3 weeks. The wine remained on skins for 5 days after fermentation before being gently pressed and settled, then racked to older barrels for 9 months of aging.

Founded by Ilya and Nadia Senchuk in 2011 on 11 acres in Winona, at the far western edge of the Niagara Peninsula, Leaning Post Wines built its reputation on single-vineyard, sub-appellation-driven Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Winemaker Ilya Senchuk sources fruit from a small circle of sites he knows intimately — the estate's own Senchuk Vineyard along with Grimsby Hillside, Keczan, Hemeris and Bock — farmed and vinified with minimal intervention so each site's character comes through clearly in the glass. Leaning Post was an early champion of the Lincoln Lakeshore sub-appellation designation and is Certified Sustainable by Sustainable Winegrowing Ontario. The wines have consistently ranked among Ontario's top producers and are poured in leading restaurants in Toronto, Montreal, London and Copenhagen.