Exceptional, stylish, memorable.
This wine was aged for 11 months in partially new French oak barrels. It's an outstanding cuvee, made from grapes grown on the estate’s home vineyard in Okanagan Falls, which was originally planted in 1994. The site is comprised of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and some Gewurztraminer, grown on sandy/gravel loams.
An exceedingly stylish and fresh wine, which is endowed with classic notes of red cherry and currents, cranberry tea and botanicals with rainforest floor and fine spice. It is juicy and silky with memorable finesse and balance.
Exceptional.
As reviewed in Vines Magazine, holiday 2017 issue.
©copyright 2017 Daenna Van Mulligen
Wine Scores Reviewed - December 7th, 2017

Classic, elegant, silky.
Another outstanding Pinot from MFVs, this one is made from grapes grown on the estate’s home McLean Creek Road vineyard in Okanagan Falls, which was originally planted in 1994. The site is comprised of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and some Gewurztraminer, grown on sandy/gravel loams.
It was aged for 11 months in French oak barrels (25% new); natural malolactic fermentation occurred in late spring. In keeping with the estate's hands-off approach in the cellar to allow the true expression of terroir to shine through, the wine is unfined and unfiltered.
Smoked sweet cherries, cocoa, rhubarb, beet greens, savoury spice and wild botanical aromas lead to a silky and bright palate. Raspberry flavours lead the palate, layered with cigar, forest floor and cocoa flavours, which trail on a persistent finish. Classic and elegant, a gorgeous wine.
©copyright 2021 Daenna Van Mulligen
Wine Scores Reviewed - January 6th, 2021

Classic, silky, earthy.
Harvested from a selection of four vineyards throughout the valley and aged in neutral French oak for eight months, this classic Pinot Noir suggests earthy notes of forest floor, leather and beet greens lashed with red cherry, cranberry and rhubarb, brown spices and dried orange peel. Sweet red fruits line the palate alongside, spice, leather, earth and tealeaf. Silky, classic and good structure overall.
©copyright 2023 Daenna Van Mulligen
Wine Scores Reviewed - July 31st, 2023

Classic, elegant, earthy.
Harvested from a selection of vineyards throughout the valley and aged in neutral French oak for eight months, this classic Pinot Noir suggests wild red berries, leather and tealeaf, botanical, fine spice and rainforest floor aromas. Earthy with good levity, it is an elegant and focused wine trailing fine spice and cocoa on the finish.
©copyright 2019 Daenna Van Mulligen
Wine Scores Reviewed - December 3rd, 2019

Classic, bouncy, purity.
Harvested from a selection of vineyards throughout the valley this tempting Pinot offers classic notes of tart cherry, pomegranate, dried violets and tea leaf with forest floor undertones woven with leather, cocoa and spices. It has a fresh and bouncy palate with lovely purity of fruit, good balance and a lengthy vibrant finish.
©copyright 2018 Daenna Van Mulligen
Wine Scores Reviewed - January 8th, 2018