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Synchromesh Cachola Family Vineyards Cabernet Franc Rosétext
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Synchromesh Cachola Family Vineyards Cabernet Franc Rosé 2017

Oliver, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, CanadaThe Cachola Family vineyard is just north of Oliver in the base of the hills, and winemaker Alan Dickinson uses their cabernet franc in this rosé as well as a red wine. This is picked early and purposeful for this wine, and whole cluster pressed with time on the skins before pressing. Ripe and juicy, with a bump of residual sugar bedding strawberry jam, red grapefruit, orange on a rounder palate (rounder compared to '15 and '16). This is a textural and ample palate, intense with fruit and glycerol on the palate, and surprisingly intense for its 9.8 degrees alcohol. I'd love to see lower sweetness here, so the acid and fruit can shine. Salted melon here through the finish. Comes together with some time in the bottle. Fresh and savoury. 9.8 percent = smashable.Tasted: 26 April 2018Tasted by: Treve RingPrices:
BC$23.00750mlwinery direct
Producer: Synchromesh Wines Inc.Distributors: Storied Wines & Spirits
Massey Wines & Spirits Ltd.
Grape: Cabernet FrancCSPC: 51284UPC: 626990226956