wine profile

This vintage produced a fruity aromatic profile filled with raspberry and strawberry with notes of cotton candy and cherry compote. The palate is round and creamy with flavors of raspberry coulis and peach. This medium-bodied style of rosé will pair nicely with a Niçoise salad or grilled chicken and herbs.

Winemaking Notes

Sourced from vineyards in Okanagan Falls, this Rosé is a blend of two delicate grape varieties; 87% Gamay and 13% Pinot Noir.  Gamay makes up only 3% of the red varieties grown in BC. The grapes were whole cluster pressed, and fermented mostly in stainless steel (87%), while 15% was fermented in neutral French oak puncheons to add texture and complexity.

Vintage Notes

Okanagan Valley vineyards experienced a season like no other in 2023. The end of the 2022 season was abnormally warm, going from summer weather at the end of October to winter overnight and a deep freeze in December which adversely affected the plants. Early bud dissections revealed extensive damage and the resulting yields were very low, especially in our Syrah, Malbec and Semillon plantings.  

Although the Okanagan Valley had a slight delay to the growing season with cooler than average weather through April and May, the weather very quickly changed to a long, extended period of hot, dry days through the balance of the summer. We saw bud break at our Naramata vineyard at the beginning of May and kicked off our harvest by picking the first fruit on August 23rd for our traditional method sparkling wine. This was a full month earlier than vintage 2022, which was a very late and more moderate summer. Most of our varieties ripened a week or two earlier than normal due to the warm weather and lower yields. The low yields also brought good concentration to the flavours and ripe tannins for our Bordeaux-styled reds.

vineyard source

Sourced from Hawthorn and Thomas Rance Vineyards