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Meyer Rosé 2022
Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, CanadaThis year's rosé takes fruit from their estate McLean Creek Road in Okanagan Falls and Lakehill Road in Kaleden, as well as Fat Coyote Vineyard in Naramata. The darker pink hued rosé had 12 hours of skin contact before being blend off into stainless and older French barrels where it remained on lees for 4 months prior to bottling. Ripe and full and glycerol slicked, this packs a lot of fruit density into 13%. Ripe strawberry jam, cherries, raspberries is dosed liberally with spices and kissed with a forest green note on the finish. One for foodstuffs, ideally mushroom and/or salmon based.Tasted: 18 June 2023Tasted by: Prices:BC | $20.96 | 750ml | winery online/direct, select private retailers |
Vagabond Merchants
Grape: Pinot NoirCSPC: 160606UPC: 808755007486