Cedar Creek Cab

about three years ago, while touring thru the Okanagan Valley in BC, we went to Cedar Creek Estate winery for a tasting. While there they pointed out "the last 6 bottles available" of the 02 Cab Sauv Platinum Reserve, which apparently had won the Canadian wine of the year competition and was, by all reports, supposed to be quite good. Jan, one of the Canadian wine swines, immediately said "we'll take them". Todd got 2, I took 2, and Jan took 2.

Last Friday I opened the first of mine. Notes:

dark ruby with garnet rim. Nose is dry tobacco, leafy, with dark currant fruit. A bit of that older cab smell (sorry, I don't have a better description than that. You know it when you smell it). l/m to m acid, m tanns, dark currant fruit and vanilla. Notes of dried herbs and cola. Intense mix of flavours, a pomegranite hint starts to appear. Long finish. This wine is crazy good.

There you go. This wine was definitely worthy of whatever award it won. Much better than the corked wine that Todd opened. However, he made up for it with his backup wine - a 2003 Pride Cabernet Franc that was a monster, to say the least.

The next day Tri Swines Wines picked zinfandel for our 2009 vintage, and then we racked the 08 vintage of Dornfelder and put it on some oak. The garage smells like a winery again - awesome!