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Wine Recommendation
Golden Mile Cellars
2004 Black Arts Chardonnay(Okanagan Valley)
Black Arts is the new reserve tier at Golden Mile Cellars. Winemaker Michael Bartier, who has made "best in Canada" Chardonnays at two other Okanagan wineries, thinks this may be the best he has yet bottled.
The aromas are toasty, with a twist of orange peel. On the palate, it is a layered wine, with flavours of apple, lime and grapefruit, with a notable piquant acidity on the finish. This definitely is a Chardonnay that should be cellared for several years in order to extract its fully Burgundian characters. 418 cases of six bottles each. Score: 86 points, with potential to approach 90 as it matures.
Reviewed November 22, 2005 by John Schreiner.
The Wine
Winery: Golden Mile Cellars |
The Reviewer
John Schreiner
John Schreiner has been covering the wines of British Columbia for the past 30 years and has written 10 books on the wines of Canada and BC. He has judged at major competitions and is currently a panel member for the Lieutenant Governor’s Awards of Excellence in Wine. Both as a judge and as a wine critic, he approaches each wine not to find fault, but to find excellence. That he now finds the latter more often than the former testifies to the dramatic improvement shown by BC winemaking in the past decade. |