2021 Viognier
Rich in all known dimensions, this wine can fairly be described in one word: moreish. Each sniff, each sip draws you further in to an ambrosial world of candied ginger and orange peel, Turkish apricots, fresh-grated nutmeg, cedar and honeysuckle. Sweet and spice dance over a lush and lip-smacking finish.
In Stock
Wine Specs
Vintage
2021
Varietal
Viognier
Appellation
Okanagan Valley
Acid
5.0
Residual Sugar
2.7
Alcohol %
12.9
Wine Profile
Tasting Notes
Rich in all known dimensions, this wine can fairly be described in one word: moreish. Each sniff, each sip draws you further in to an ambrosial world of candied ginger and orange peel, Turkish apricots, fresh-grated nutmeg, cedar and honeysuckle. Sweet and spice dance over a lush and lip-smacking finish.
Vineyard Notes
Gill Family Vineyard, Oliver
Production Notes
The grapes for this wine were picked and sorted by hand, then crushed, destemmed and pressed into neutral barrels where the wine was fermented using ambient yeast in order to develop complexity. The wine was aged 7 months in neutral French oak with regular bâtonnage to develop texture and richness.
Winemaker Notes
This Viognier is a special wine which was produced from a single vineyard site in at the foot of McIntyre Bluff in Oliver. This vineyard is uniquely situated to be able to both ripen Viognier (challenge at the 49th parallel) as well as hold cool air into the autumn season to lengthen its hang time to achieve delicious honeysuckle aromas and subtle pineapple flavours. Viognier is known to be a long, lanky cluster which is difficult to ripen evenly, but this vineyard site tempers the often hot conditions of the Oliver valley floor. To highlight its round and ripe flavours the viognier was barrel fermented in neutral french barrels and underwent malolactic fermentation in the same barrel over the winter. Monthly battonâge was applied to the wine to keep it fresh and briny. The wine sat on its original ferment lees through the spring and was bottled in early June. To celebrate the honeysuckle characteristics of this Viognier we gave this wine a special gilded label, designed by Dale Nigel Goble.