Rotary Club Samples New Winery’s Wares

                                                                  

Guest Norma Fisher (left) and Rotarian Keith Nixon and Past President Rob Horning were among the Rotarians and their guests who recently enjoyed sampling a selection of locally hand-crafted wines at the Blue Gypsy Winery near Oxford Mills.  Vintner Louis Gaal and his wife, Claire Faguy, bottled their first vintage last October and have been working hard to keep up with demand ever since.  Their delicious fruit wines—apple, cranberry, cherry, strawberry and blueberry—are complemented by a range of  tastes less commonly found in wine—maple, maple-apple, ginger and chocolate-flavoured honey wine (mead).  Claire and Louis have planted a wide variety of fruit on their 10-acre former orchard located on Lindsay Road, with the intention of eventually growing as many of the ingredients of their production on their own property.