2022 Syrah Reisling

A dusty wild cherry nose with subtle black current ribena, spiced strawberry and black cherry. The palate follows with the same but with more wild strawberry, red licorice (red vines), soft textured, silky with subtle white pepper on the finish. 

Both varieties were grown on the same site, a 15yr old certified organic vineyard in Osoyoos, southern Okanagan Valley. A very dry and hot site, sporting pretty much 100% sandy soils. 

All fruit was destemmed, around 15% of fresh Reisling was added to the Syrah and co-fermented on the skins. A very light maceration during the ferment which included one cap wetting per day. Some sporadic oxygen sparging was used during the ferment, along with the addition of extra lees from our We let the skins cold soak in the wine for nine days post ferment where it was pressed to neutral oak barrels to rest on it's primary lees for nine months. Only one racking two weeks prior to bottling. One barrel of 12 day skin contact Riesling was added to the blend.