This wine is one in Okanagan Crush Pad’s Wine Campus series, an annual collaboration sponsored by the progressive Okanagan winery and awarded to the Vancouver International Wine Festival sommelier of the year. Proceeds from the sale of this wine benefit wine education scholarships through the BC Hospitality Foundation.
Samantha Rahn was the 2014 award recipient, the co-creater of this wine and as characterful and memorable as the label itself—Rahn is a Whistler sommelier who takes to the hills when she’s not directing the wine program at Araxi Restaurant. Building on the wild success of OCP’s Samantha Syrah from 2013, the winery made the wise decision to release a couple more wines under the Samantha label, including a Gamay and the 2014 Samantha Chardonnay. This wild ferment Chardonnay was sourced from Canyonview Vineyard in Okanagan Valley and aged in concrete. Earthy lees, decomposed rock and light wild herbs on the nose carry through to the medium bodied palate. Wild ferment evident (some funk here), complemented with shivering lemon pith acids, spring asparagus, green apple and underripe, crunchy pear.
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