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15¾/20
Red Slate 2012
Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, CanadaFrom the cellar. Clean Slate was Lock & Worth before a German winery of the same name sued the Naramata boys over the rights. Don't mess with Germany #NaramataLove. It's been interesting to watch the progression of this winery. This wine was one of their first attempts. 2012 Red Slate is gamay, fermented in neutral open top vessels before resting in neutral oak. Browning in the glass, this is ripe and fleshy plum, wild blackberry, waves of stem and violets, charcoal dust and toasted wood on a soupy, broody palate. I would not peg this as gamay at all, and if you have it in your cellar as I do, drink now with pork.Tasted: 29 September 2017Tasted by: Treve RingPrices:Grape: Gamay Noir
