Always great value from the realm of CCR! Ripe cherry, tomato, plum, raspberry, tobacco and some oak spice are built on a medium to full body. Nice concentration, great length and some dry tannins make for a top partner with classic Italian fare. A blend of 95% Sangiovese and 5% Merlot.
From Don Sebastiani & Sons, this is a robust red with notes of kirsch, blackberry and cassis fruit with vanilla oak, spice, tobacco leaf and meaty-earthy accents. It’s a young wine on the palate with evolving and ripe fruits, spice, good structure and plush tannins. It shows some earthy notes, but the fruit remains the star. Try with a steak sandwich with grilled onions and peppers.
Polished, silky and complex, velvety at the edges, with a glowing core of bright cherry, raspberry, currant and dark plum-fruit surrounded by hints of earth, tea and a natural Okanagan savouriness. The texture is soft and the flavours pure as it all comes together on the long, gentle finish.
Sourced entirely from the North Vineyard at Rosehall and picked early to maintain acidity. It’s 100% barrel-fermented and aged in 500-litre French oak puncheons using 75% new oak. This is the best wine that I have tasted from Rosehall. It starts with extraordinary aromatics of poached pear, butter cream, ripe apple, elegant oak stylings, gunflint and a subtle note of caramel emerging. It’s rich, complex and textured on the palate and built on a lovely foundation of flinty-smoky mineral richness that melds gorgeously with ripe pear, spice, undercurrent of lemon-lime citrus, and all lifted by a fair bit of acidity.
Muscat is one of those wines that you either love or hate. It’s highly perfumed with notes of cardamom and orange blossom, and it can be either sweet or dry. In Alsace they make it dry, and I happen to love it. This wine has that wonderful grapey, orange-blossom nose and flavour that finishes dry.
A buxom, well-priced rosé from the Valle de Tulum. Deep blood-orange/pink colour; cherry-pit nose; full-bodied, dry cherry flavour with a smoky note. Match it with charcuterie.
A straightforward, unpretentious Greek white with flavours of peach, citrus, white flowers and mineral notes. Refreshing, there is very good length. Chill and serve on the patio this summer.