Red Wine In Singapore

Hello and happy wine Thursday, wine lovers!  It has been almost 2 weeks since my wonderful experience at the Wine Blogging Conference in Penticton… truly an amazing event.

Calling all Red Wine lovers – I was utterly impressed with the B.C. Red wine category!  I had presumed that I was going to prefer the whites category but quite a few of the reds won me over.  As I posted last week – here are my fast and furious reviews with five minutes per wine exactly as I wrote it down while tasting and experiencing…
George and Trudy His 30 years of winemaking, 40 years of growing grapes and 50 years of marriage.  Nice.  2 unique vineyard sites in Oliver. One side is sand and the other side is alluvial (river) rock.  660 cases made. Small lot. Top tier. 100 acres of vineyards. Central OK and bought vineyards in the south. Freaking fantastic. Sage and savory character.  So smooth. Holy Hannah. Nice acid. $23.99 Bergen! George and Trudy helped start the VQA.  14.7% abv. Sourced from 2 vineyards = beauties in a glass.   Off to a stellar start! A GGG Hell Yes!

East Bench has sunk into the late night Black Sage Road. Big Red. 270 feet of sand. They hand pick, hand sort, hand craft.  Winemaker nicknamed “The Grape Whisperer” ‘he knows every vine personally in the vineyard.” 14% above.  More sunlight hours than Napa?  Cool. 51% Cabernet Sauvginon/40% Merlot 1/3 new oak, 80 % French oak.  $52.00 3300 – 4200 cases per year.  Not sure why but this wine isn’t for me.  Nothing stands out.  Hmm…
The newer variety of the quite big Bordeaux style wine 93% Cab. Save. Aged from 18 – 24 months in French oak and then another year in the bottle at least.  Only releases the wines when they are ready to drink. $39.90 primarily sold through the Wine Club.  All made to the ‘reserve’ standard. Good and worth the money. 

Beast 48% Cab Sauv. 28% Cab Franc 450 situations of this bottle. $19.90 known as after the Ogopogo.  A bit green and a bit austere – not high enough level of acidity to get me through.  No thank you.

Hester Stream Assess 2009  Cabernet bottles Sauvignon/Merlot/Cabernet Franc combination Oliver Fantastic Distance Regular older independently 12- 15 several weeks Rob Summertime Restricted Version.  He commits to 24 several weeks with an oak program. What type of oak? One time purchases. American oak. $35.00 a container. Stylish oak. Smooth tannin.  Wonderful.  I would like a case of this please GGG Terrible Yes!

Painted Stone ICON 2009 David Skinner the proprietor. Sacred Hannah – a whole lot of awesome! Family business.  30% Rioja.  5,000 situations.  We don’t want to get larger we want to get better.  Bordeaux advisor comes and does his mixing. 15% Petit Verdot $55.00 Really smooth…  US submission coming.  GGG Terrible Yes!

Tinhorn Stream Cabernet bottles Franc 2010 a bit different.  Angular tannin, higher level of acidity. WOW.  This is amazing.  Low rain fall 100 % sand.  Very relaxing.  I like this baby.  Phil is your bottles manufacturer.  Great control low rainfall. No vegetative features. Nice level of acidity. Charming grippy tannin.  Very little grape vine loss of life in the vineyard.   She is a ‘goer’. 4,000 situations. Males also a source Cab. Franc.