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

Potent, ripe, opulent.
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 three Syrahs, all unique and each colour coded to site along with a matching label and wax dip.
This version comes from the sandy clay loam with limestone and granite rock soils of the hot and semi-arid Similkameen Valley and planted at 420 MASL.
Of the three, this is the showy one.
A no holds barred and ripe (flirting with jammy) version, it has a liqueur-like character. Fragrant with high-toned and sun-warmed black berry aromas, that are layered with dried violets, cedar chips, roasted beets and a hint of mint. The palate is opulent but it's also a chest-thumper of a wine with charred spice, tar and restrained black fruit. The finish is quite warm, it’s also the highest alcohol at 14.3%.
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Wine Scores Reviewed - March 29th, 2021

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.
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Wine Scores Reviewed - February 25th, 2022