Youthful, fresh, buoyant.
While Rust Wine Co. is located on Golden Mile Drive, and is one of the handful of wineries allowed to use the designation Golden Mile sub-GI, they make four single vineyard Syrahs, aged 10 months in French oak (20% new), which are all unique and colour coded to site along with a matching label and wax dip.
I tasted all four side-by-side upon opening and again 45 hours later, I felt they needed time to open.
This version comes from The new sub-GI of Okanagan Falls from vines planted in 2016 on clay loam soils with layers of gravel and small boulders; it was planted in 2016, making it the youngest of the fours vineyard offerings. The younger vines do show, it has a sort of buoyant angularity. Notes of high-toned fresh red forest berries co-mingle with saddle leather, salted licorice, carob and wild herbs at the core initially then rolls into raspberry, plum, star anise, Mexican Chocolate and dried oregano. That freshness appears on the palate as well but later leads to darker fruit and charred tobacco with fine peppery spice.
This bottle has a purple dipped cap and purple trim label. NO image available.
Rich Meats , Barbeque, Good First Impressions, Cellar Keepers, Cheese Fondue
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Wine Diva reviewed - 2022-02-25 21:00:17.0
