By The Glass: Wayne Gretzky Chardonnay 2007

While dining at one of Toronto’s most unabashedly tourist-y restaurants, I figured it wouldn’t be right if I didn’t give the man’s wine a try. Now the Creole Chicken Mac & Cheese? That was tasty.

But the wine. Oh, the wine.

While the taste of lemon was more than evident, there was little else to back it up. Bland and flavorless, this one truly lacked the character of it’s namesake.

But I drank on. In hopes that something else on the menu would brighten my disappointed spirits.

Unfortunately, their Parker Station Chardonnay also tasted unbalanced, with grapefruit undertones rising to one big overtone and leaving the rest of the flavor flat and unmemorable. This was evidently not my night for wine.

To be fair, I’d say some of it could be attributed to the wine being far too cold when it arrived. The glass should be cool to the touch, not icy and sweating with condensation.

Too bad. I suppose I’ll have to stop by Wayne Gretzky Estates for another taste, since I would hope their vineyard staff prepares a glass more suitable for evaluation and consumption.