Henry of Pelham Family Estate Winery

2007 - Riesling Icewine
- * Style: Sweet
- * Type: Ice Wine
- * Region: Ontario
Perfumed and citrusy with richness. Further aging will enhance nuances of mineral, evolved and dried fruits and honey. Attractive in youth, this ice wine will cellar for at least 15 years, in part due to the removal of Botrytis Affected fruit
2008 - Late-Harvest Riesling
- * Style: Sweet
- * Type: Late Harvest
- * Region: Ontario
Intense citrus fruit including grapefruit and lime. Pear and peach characteristics are followed by spicy, lingering pear notes on the finish. Age 1 to 8 years from vintage
2007 - Speck Family Reserve Riesling
- * Style: Dry
- * Type: Table
- * Region: Ontario
We have been producing Riesling wines from this vineyard site since its first crop in 1988. The crop is significantly reduced with attention to the smallest details of viticulture on a vine by vine basis. This, combined with the contribution that only fully mature vines can provide, gives us the winemaking basis for the best Riesling yet produced by Henry of Pelham. The greatest wines usually employ the most simple of winemaking techniques, in this case a cool fermentation, very limited and gentle handling, and some maturation in bottle. Will age for 8 to 12 years from vintage
2008 - Off-Dry Reserve Riesling
- * Style: Med-Dry
- * Type: Table
- * Region: Ontario
Some residual sweetness is maintained despite crisp acidity and structure by stopping the fermentation early. Flavours of citrus, grapefruit and zesty lemon. The high level of acid balances and enlivens the
sweetness of fruit and body in this truly Kabinett/Spatlese style of wine. Will age 10 plus years
2008 - Riesling
- * Style: Dry
- * Type: Table
- * Region: Ontario
Dry with the vitality of fruity crispness balanced by a slight residual sweetness on the palate. Citrus and rose petal aromas. Age from 1 to 5 years from vintage
2008 - Reserve Riesling
- * Style: Dry
- * Type: Table
- * Region: Ontario
This estate grown wine comes from vineyards that were shovel planted by the Speck Brothers in 1984. Dry and fuller bodied with more intense acidity. Apple, citrus and spice on the palate. Attractive in its youth this wine will develop secondary characteristics and improve with 3 to 8 years cellaring
Henry of Pelham Family Estate Winery is located in the Short Hills Bench along the Niagara Escarpment. Founded by the Speck family in 1988, the land was first deeded to their ancestor, Nicholas Smith (ca. 1778), a United Empire Loyalist.
In 1842 his youngest son Henry built an Inn and planted vineyards along Pelham Road. When signing for the liquor license he chose the moniker Henry of Pelham in reference to the British Prime Minister, Sir Henry of Pelham. The joke stuck and Henry was thereafter “Henry of Pelham”.
Over a century later, as teenagers, the Speck brothers spent weekends and summers clearing the land of Henry’s original vineyards, orchards and a sheep farm. They replaced it with modern grape varieties. The oldest shovel planted vines contribute the fruit for reserves and the vineyards are all sustainably farmed.



