Painted Rock Red Icon 2014, VQA Skaha Bench, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦

🍇 Merlot 33%
🍇 Cabernet Franc 21%
🍇 Malbec 19%
🍇 Petit Verdot 16%
🍇 Cabernet Sauvignon 11%

🧐 Alcohol 14.3%

🍁 My Score 93 Points

🧩 100% Estate grown fruit, aged 18 months in 30% new French oak and unfiltered.

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 A rather intoxicating nose, with aromas of black fruit, black currants, leather, pencil shavings, smoky cedar, savoury spices and peppery notes. On the mouthfeel, full bodied, broad textured with great flavours, fine silky tannins and refreshing acidity. The finish is long with flavours of dark fruit, chocolate, vanilla and savoury spices.

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After a two hour decant this beast was ready to roar. Oh my god! So delicious with a BBQ steak. There was so much going on, starting with it’s great aromatics, seductive mouthfeel with fantastic richness and weight and flavourful finish that begged for another sip. If you are lucky enough to have one of these in your cellar, the good news is, the best is yet to come. What a treat 👌😋 Cheers my wine friends 🍷

Painted Rock Merlot 2007, Okanagan Valley, BC, Canada

This young Estate Winery located in Penticton, BC is committed to the production of ultra premium Okanagan wines. I previously tasted their wines at the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival, last April in Vancouver, BC. For a more technical notes on this Merlot; 97% Merlot and 3% Malbec aged 18 months in 100% French Oak with Alcohol at 14.7%. This wine opened up with rich black plums and black cherries, mocha and cedar. The mouthfeel is complex with dark fruit, field berries, vanilla, cedar and savoury flavours, grainy tannins and fresh acidity. The finish on this Merlot is long with sweet tannins and savoury. Definitely a big muscular wine with an abundance of fruit, a great deal of complex flavours with tannins and acidity to match. There is aging potential here. As the evening progressed, each glass of this Merlot just got better and  better. Very comforting wine here, absolutely loved it.

This wine was purchased at Liberty Wine Merchants in Vancouver on March 30, 2011 at $44.99