Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, CanadaAmulet is the latest wine project from winemaker Dwight Sick, something that he's been visualizing for the past 15 years. The Amulet wines are made at Naramata's Roche Wines, and the portfolio, currently one white and one red, focus exclusively on Rhone varieties. This inaugural white is a blend of 90% viognier (from Penticton and Naramata Bench) and 10% marsanne, from Penticton. After a whole cluster press, this went to French oak (14% new) for fermentation, MLF, and 6 months on gross lees with batonnage. The wine was dosed with a small amount of sulphur, blended, and bottled unfined and unfiltered in July 2019. Ripe and generous, as viognier does, with orange creamsicle, lush peach, apricot, fill the palate, smooth and voluptuous.Tasted: 19 October 2019Tasted by: Prices:
Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, CanadaI like this more than the Amulet red this year. The mix is 30 percent viognier (Kiln House Vineyard, Penticton) plus 60 percent viognier (Kozier Vineyard, Naramata Bench) and 10 percent marsanne (Kiln House Vineyard). It has the vibrancy of mid-valley fruit with a richer viognier underbelly. After a gentle press, it went through a long cool ferment in a mix of older barrels (14 percent new). The wine is rich with intense aromatic notes of ripe apricots and peaches. The palate is similar with peppery notes, honeysuckle and a rich, leesy finish. Big, round, and mouth-filing but without any perfume or fatness, leaving it bright and juicy with good balancing freshness. Ready to drink through 2021.Tasted: 12 September 2019Tasted by: Prices:
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