Oxley Estate Winery — Restaurant in Town of Essex

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Not just a winery...this is a destination for more than just a tasting! I've gone several times and enjoyed every experience.

I chose the Red Ripper as my wine for the evening after our wine tasting served table side. (we had arrived for dinner however a bit late for the regular wine tasting served at the wine bar before 6pm)

Sandra was our server! Wow amazing!

We enjoyed a chacuterie board, biscuits, soup, spring salad and Sirloin. All were delicious, well presented and offering only the best ingredients.

The biscuits served with burnt butter and house preserves were a wonderful surprise, delightful and a favourite for us of the 4 appetizers we ordered.

The wine tasting area is well organized and they truly enjoy giving you a great wine tasting experience....even if full. The don't miss a beat in their description. They are open to questions and their enthusiasm for the Winery history and future makes you fall in love with everything about the Winery!

The indoor area and outdoor area are gorgeous. They thought of everything... offering outdoor areas to sit that are quaint and private, live music some days/evenings in the warmer weather.

They also have a beautiful massive fireplace outside that you can enjoy while dining and offering chairs and blankets in front of the fireplace where you can sit and enjoy the fire after dining.

Extremely great service...top notch. Dining is a wonderful experience with the servers exceptionally polite and service driven. Not only is the experience, setting and wine great the service goes over and beyond offering the whole package truly making this winery a stop you don't...

This was our first visit. The tasting and dining area inside was nice and bright. We had a lovely lunch in the sunshine on the terrace. Brook was our server and she had excellent suggestions and was very helpful and attentive. Started with the white tasting flight. Would definitely recommend the Auxerrois or Riesling. They had a fire going and the slight scent of wood smoke and pretty flowers on the table really added to the meal. We had the charcuterie board and sticky duck wings. You have to get the wings! Seriously! Lovely attention to detail(sugared chilis) and melding flavors. Great cheese selection on the charcuterie board - Five Brothers is lovely. The bee pollen was a fun touch, I just worry most people won't eat it all and that's such a waste. Desert was incredible. When she said chocolate and grapefruit I thought that doesn't seem remotely delicious but it sounded strange and therefore necessary to try. I was absolutely wrong! Chocolate and grapefruit and mint and olive oil should always be put together. Don't foolishly assume you know that it can't work. The chef clearly knows! All in all it was a truly wonderful food experience and we enjoyed ourselves immensely. The price was exactly right, you are getting excellent food, its worth it. And the coffee was good too and they didn't serve yucky tap water. Good job you Oxley for knowing good water and coffee show you actually really care about the whole meal experience. And the bathrooms were beautiful and immaculate. Also a big deal. Thank you all for making it such a great first experience and lunch. We are...

We passed over Oxley on several trips over the past several years. We were cheating ourselves without realizing it. It turns out there are 2 Oxleys. One is the popular Oxley of easy drinking wine, music on the patio and generally laid back good times at the lake. The other Oxley, the one we stumbled onto today by actually going in rather than driving past - again - is the Oxley no one writes about or talks about, the Oxley of seriously good wine made by a passionate young winemaker who is going to make a name for himself. You can't even taste these wines at the cellar door: unless you plead your case and they happen to have one or two of them open. Otherwise you just have to take a chance and buy them. You won't be sorry. The reserve syrah especially. What you will taste is the work of established skills that announce, "we're here," with a long, lingering finish that whispers, "just wait and see how far we go." Yes, we should have come sooner. But we'll be back now that we know the other Oxley is here waiting for us.

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