But I thought East Dell was closed?

Shortly after our wedding at the beautiful EastDell Estates Winery on Locust Lane in Beamsville, Canadian golfer Mike Weir bought the property, closing the aptly named View Restaurant, the attached gift shop and the tour operations. Apparently even the previously booked weddings were cancelled, some brides having only weeks to reschedule in a new venue.

This left my friends and relatives, newly addicted to the Black Cab, wondering if, and for how long, they would be able to find EastDell Wine in the LCBO. As it were, Weir didn't buy the existing inventory at the time of sale so the bottles that you buy up to and including the 2009 vintage will be exactly the same as before.

Actually, it's entirely possible that even after '09, you won't notice a difference because Diamond Estate Wines, the company that owns the EastDell brand still owns De Sousa Wine Cellars, of the same terroir as the Locust Lane location. (That's probably most important if, like me, you love almost all of the Rieslings grown anywhere near "the bench".) It's more likely that it will be Mr. Weir's consumers that notice a difference as his brand will no longer be produced at Chateau des Charmes using grapes from I'm not exactly sure where.