With those two grape varieties, it’s a rosé blend. Salmon pink in colour, this wine has a nose of red apples and an evident note of sweetness; it’s nicely balanced with a candied raspberry flavour and good length.

Food match: charcuterie.

Pink House Wine Co. Chardonnay Merlot 2013, Ontario, $12.95 (LCBO #324558)

Post City Magazines’ wine columnist, Tony Aspler, has written 14 books on wine and food. Tony also created the Ontario Wine Awards and has been inducted into the New York Media Wine Writers’ Hall of Fame. He can be heard on 680News.