2015 River Stone Estate Winery Corner Stone Okanagan Valley
Community Tasting Note
uzzi Likes this wine:
88 Points
Thursday, April 9, 2020 - Decent Bordeaux style red. Still a bit tight. We decanted for an hour as well. I would think a year or 2 might help it out but was overall decent. Not very robust.
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Comment posted by KillerJones:
4/10/2020 5:54:00 PM - Solid review - appreciate you diving in here. I heard they used extremely toasted barrels here...did you notice any charring here?
Comment posted by uzzi:
4/10/2020 7:01:00 PM - Hmmm I didn’t get that at all. There was just nothing that made us go “wow this is nice”. We did get this bottle on our visit there last spring. I dunno. We still have a tough time straying from some of the other OK wineries we like much better. Nothing much has changed our mind. Yet! We did visit a couple that I’m hoping do wow us. But I’m hoping to keep em laying down for a year or 2
Comment posted by KillerJones:
4/10/2020 7:40:00 PM - Many thanks for the quick feedback.
Curious now...which wineries are you hoping to explore?
Comment posted by uzzi:
4/10/2020 7:51:00 PM - Well we picked up stuff from Checkmate and Culmina. We shall see. But Black Hills and Burrowing Owl and Moon Curser and QG and Cassini are tough to beat. Lariana Carm is apparently great too. Hoping to get my hands on a couple bottles. If the wine is more robust and makes us go “wow” we don’t mind the �������������� price
Comment posted by KillerJones:
4/10/2020 8:04:00 PM - I have yet to buy into Checkmate…but Culmina is worth the un-primeur prices.
I adore BH & BO – terrific ageing wines…Lariana Carm, as I enjoy their Bordeaux blend. I must try But Moon Curser certainly flies under the radar, no?
QG is a perennial fave…have been a Barrel club member for many years. Their Connemara is special.
Comment posted by uzzi:
4/10/2020 8:19:00 PM - I concur with your thoughts. We must have similar tastes. I just dropped my QG Barrel Club Mbshp this spring. Thought it was time to try something else. But I’ll still buy Connemara and OVf/Reserve. So good!!