71% Cabernet Franc/18% Cabernet Sauvignon/11%Merlot. Mature ruby in colour. Cedary, dark chocolate, blackcurrant and plum bouquet. Medium- to full-bodied, dry, mouth-filling currant flavours seasoned with oak. A well-balanced, harmonious wine from a warm vintage. Ripe fruit and ripe tannins.
Dark ruby with a purplish rim. Pleasant and inviting nose of black fruits, liquorice, oak and garrigue. Explosive fruity flavour, medium to full body, smooth texture, rich middle palate and soft finish. Drink within a year with everyday dishes of red meat, pasta in tomato sauce, etc.
Very pale with a greenish tint. Lightly reductive nose of cut grass, gooseberry and passionfruit. Medium body, crisply dry (almost tart) gooseberry and green plum flavours. Great seafood wine.
From a stony, west-facing slope on Naramata Bench, once an ancient lakeshore. Lifted red berries, strawberry and cherry notes with earthy hints precede a structured and well-balanced palate of pure fruit with a touch of spice, wrapped in mouth-watering, juicy acidity, with well-integrated, approachable tannins from judicious new and used oak, through a lengthy finish. Emblematic of not just this winery’s capabilities but a sure sign of the variety’s blossoming as a BC mainstay.
BC Syrah is exiting. Most of the Syrah in the province is grown in the southern Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys, but the grapes for this wine are from a site in Kelowna adjacent to Lake Okanagan whose moderating effect protects the vines from winter damage. The wine shows red and black berry fruit, white pepper, meaty, with an elegant texture, tight core and lovely freshness on the finish. The vineyard was only planted in 2010 and the winery is still playing with the wine’s oak regime. Cutting back a little on the oak’s prominence would make this wine even more fresh and compelling.
Sourced entirely from the St. Hubertus vineyard in the Kelowna region, this lifted, aromatic wine opens with white flowers and ripe pear, evolving to pear and green apple flavours backed by lively acidity, finishing with a squeeze of grapefruit and appetizingly dry mineral grip.
Absolutely delicious! The deep ruby colour leads into a bouquet of blackcurrant, dark cherry, plum, herbs, cocoa, vanilla and coffee. Full-bodied and still sharply tannic, so hold until 2020 and then drink until 2040.