My love for older wines and experimentation continues ... and today in the middle of the afternoon, after a wine tasting that did not go so well, I decided to find something interesting to try. That curiousity led me to this bottle from the Okanagan and surprisingly it was very good. Sure it was mainly past its prime but it showed well as a mature wine. The fruit on the nose was all dried, mainly blackberry and cherry in nature - sweet smelling and rather inviting. The palate was the most interesting thing about it: licorice/anise notes with dried blackberry and cassis, smooth and quite drinkable in its present state ... then within half and hour the oak showed up on the drying finish and began to take over, thankfully the dried fruit remained intact.
Check out the ontariowinereview.com website ...
Catch up with the latest news and reviews from Ontario
sign-up for the free bi-weekly newsletter and more
No comments:
Post a Comment