Vintage Report
Spring began cooler-than-usual but warm and dry conditions prevailed providing the ideal growing and ripening weather for another typically great Okanagan vintage. Crush commenced on September 15th, was marked by warmer-than-normal temperatures and picking was largely unhurried, steady and slightly longer-than-usual, finally wrapping up on November 10th. Careful vine management, tight pruning regimes and irrigation control came to the fore in allowing the estate-grown fruit to reach excellent maturation levels and optimal phenolic ripeness. The whites are aromatic and elegant and the reds have superior structure with excellent balance and character.
Tasting Notes
A brilliant wine with an elegant balanced frame, this luscious Vidal Icewine boasts aro- mas of mandarin and honey with bright tropical notes on the palate.
Winemaker’s Notes
| 100% Vidal | |
| 8.5% Alc. | R.S. 318 g/l | |
| Unoaked | |
| Brix at Harvest: | 40.9° |
| Harvest: | December 2008 |
| Vineyards: | Naramata |
