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Wine Recommendation
Gehringer Brothers Estate Winery
2005 Cuvée Noire(Okanagan Valley)
Here is an honest wine – a soft, unoaked easy-drinking red light enough and soft enough to appeal to those who want to enjoy wine without getting intellectual about it. This is a blend of Chancellor (85%) and Cabernet Franc. A French hybrid, Chancellor once was important in Okanagan vineyards because it yields pleasant, if simple wines, somewhat recalling Cabernet Sauvignon.
The Gehringer wine shows attractive cherry flavours, some spice and almost no tannin. Gehringer often wins “best red” with this wine in any competition where consumers vote for the “people’s choice.” 86 points.
Reviewed July 4, 2006 by John Schreiner.
Other reviewed wines from Gehringer Brothers Estate Winery
 2006 Riesling Private Reserve (Okanagan Valley)John Schreiner 7/16/2007 |
 2006 Schönburger-Gewürztraminer Classic (Okanagan Valley)John Schreiner 7/15/2007 |
 2005 Sauvignon Blanc, Dry Rock Vineyards (Okanagan Valley)John Schreiner 7/4/2006 |
The Wine
Winery: Gehringer Brothers Estate Winery |
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. |