For a great cause.
Because we always need more pink, Rust Wine Co. has come out with a magnum (1500ml) size that is helping a great cause. For every magnum sold, $5 will go to the British Columbia Hospitality Foundation (BCHF), which assists those in need in the hospitality industry.
That being said, this is a sweeter rose, made from Merlot, with a rusty-salmon hue. The nose offers cranberry and rhubarb with underlying strawberry marshmallows, savoury spices and cedar chips. It has a creamsicle character on the palate, which is cut with tart pink grapefruit, and a slick, notably viscous, weight.
Chill it down and toss it back.
©copyright 2019 Daenna Van Mulligen
Wine Scores Reviewed - March 25th, 2019

For a great cause.
Because we always need more pink, Rust Wine Co. has come out with a magnum (1500ml) size that is helping a great cause. For every magnum sold, $5 will go to the British Columbia Hospitality Foundation (BCHF), which assists those in need in the hospitality industry.
That being said, this is a sweeter rose, made from Merlot, with a rusty-salmon hue. The nose offers maraschino cherry with underlying strawberry marshmallows, savoury spices and cedar chips. It has a creamsicle character on the palate, which is cut with tart pink grapefruit, and a slick, notably viscous, weight.
Chill it down and toss it back.
Two sizes, 1500ml and 750ml, both sold out at winery.
©copyright 2019 Daenna Van Mulligen
Wine Scores Reviewed - November 22nd, 2019

Fun, quaffable, levity..
Rust Wine Co. has a pretty in pink bottle of Cab Sauvignon rose that is quaffable and doles out strawberry marshmallow. vanilla, honey and purple flowers. The palate has good levity and plenty of red berry, peach and Maraschino cherry flavours. A fun wine for sipping or pairing with spicier food (wine has a kiss of sweetness).
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Wine Scores Reviewed - April 12th, 2020

Potent, fragrant, generous.
While Rust Wine Co. (formerly Rustico Farm & Cellars) is located on Golden Mile Drive and is one of the handful of wineries allowed to use the designation, this wine comes soils of the Similkameen Valley and is housed in a heft bottle with a wax sealed cork.
Spiced meats and oodles of purple fruit, finely ground white pepper, vanilla, and chocolate aromas lead to a palate laden with sweet and generous fruit. That fruit is propped up with mocha, licorice and more peppery spice flavours. A modern and potent wine, approachable, but not lacking complexity.
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Wine Scores Reviewed - May 5th, 2020

Plush, harmonious, satisfying.
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 sandy clay loam with limestone and granite rock soils of the hot and semi-arid Similkameen Valley from vines planted at 420 MASL in 2002.
Of the four, this is the most harmonious.
Sweet fruit and a powerful character, it delivers black raspberry, dried roses, cola and a hint of apricots. It has suppleness on the tongue with expressive wild berry flavours woven with tobacco dust and fine white pepper to start then evolves into Christmas cake, hay and dried fruits. Woven and satisfying it also oxidized the quickest of the four over the time after first opening.
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Wine Scores Reviewed - February 25th, 2022