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89POINTS
16¼/20
Lightning Rock Pinot Noir Rosé 2017
Summerland Bench, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, CanadaRosé is a giant stretch for this wine, with a colour clocking in deeper than some pinot noir red wines. In fact, the process and procedure is as for red wine, so perhaps their attempt at the Rosé name was to differentiate this lighter, chillable red from the winery's pinot noir from the same Elysia Vineyard. This was carbonically macerated for three days before continuing a native ferment in neutral oak puncheons where it remained for four months prior to tightening in stainless and bottling unfined and lightly filtered. Chiseled plum, forest berries, thorny blackberries on a slight, lifted palate, one spiced with smoked pink peppercorns and with negligible nubby tannins. Now, if they get the truth in labelling correct with next vintage, this pure little light pinot is a smashable star.Tasted: 16 April 2019Tasted by: Treve RingPrices:| BC | $25.00 | 750ml | winery direct |
The Beverage Collective
Grape: Pinot NoirUPC: 626990364757
