Magnum – 2022 Rosé
Rosé WineAh, 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!
92 points – This wine is made with Syrah with 12 hours of skin contact to give the wine a vibrant coral hue. The aroma is delicate and floral but the flavours are assertive: pink grapefruit, cherry and citrus. There is a pleasing hint of pepper on the long finish – John Schreiner on Wine
TASTING NOTES:
A beautiful watermelon pink hue gives this wine an electric appearance and brilliant clarity. There is a really pretty aroma of lilac and rose, but you have to swirl for a while to see it. Almond blossom and peach notes too. The first sip is loaded with pink grapefruit, before showing some confectionary notes of pink bubble gum, watermelon and lime juice. This wine is dry, however, so the acidity keeps the citrus flavours rolling off the tongue.
WINEMAKING:
Hand-picked fruit from our Desert Vineyard in Osoyoos this Syrah Rosé was grown specifically for Ros é production. Leaving on a heavier crop gives us less sugar and a lower alcohol making for a bright and elegant wine. 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:
Winter was long, spring even longer. Cold and wet all the way into July. Luckily for us, August showed up with aplomb. We had the warmest August on record in the South Okanagan, and it began a run of weather that “saved the vintage”. There was a 6 week stretch of near-perfect weather, and week by week we started to see the vines catch up and reach near-perfect maturity. Slowly but steadily each variety started to come into form and ripeness. Harvest lasted well into November. The wines are fantastic!
NOTES:
Production – only 17 cases produced
Alcohol – 12.5%
Varietals – 100% Syrah
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!