2023 Rosé

Ah, Rosé, how we love you. Let us count the ways…
When your fans follow your Bush Vine Syrah, there is really no choice but to Syrah your Rosé. The best Rosés are vibrant, refreshing, in your glass on your deck, chilled to perfection. An Okanagan summer is not a really summer until it is blessed with the first, second and 25th Rosé of the season. Raise your glasses, everyone!

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TASTING NOTES:
The direct press method allows this vintage to showcase Rosé in its most elegant form. A beautiful watermelon pink hue gives this wine an electric appearance and brilliant clarity.

WINEMAKING:
Hand-picked fruit from our Desert Vineyard in Osoyoos this Syrah Rosé was grown specifically for Rosé production. The grapes are destemmed and then added directly to the press where we gently press the grapes to extract just the right amount of colour. The wine ferments in stainless steel and is only lightly filtered and bottled early to preserve the fresh fruit flavours.

WINEMAKER’S COMMENTS:
The defining moment of the 2023 harvest actually took place in mid-December, 2022, when a cold snap hit the Okanagan causing significant damage to the buds that would produce the next year’s crop. Spring in 2023 was cool, with average bud burst and flowering. Fruit set was extremely low (30-40% of annual average), and lower yield for the vines to ripen meant a quick season. A heat wave in July and then again in August brought some powdery mildew pressure in the vineyard, so the vineyard team worked hard to protect the limited fruit ripening in the vineyard. August though the end of harvest was warm and dry. Harvest was early, starting at the beginning on September, and finished by early October.

NOTES:
Production – 260 cases produced
Alcohol – 11.9%
Varietals – 91% Syrah, 5% Pinot Gris, 4% Sauvignon Blanc
Vinification – hand-picked, destemmed and pressed to stainless steel for fermentation, racked to tank and let to settle before bottling
Cellaring – why wait? Rosé is meant to enjoy now!