Rust Wine Co - Cabernet Franc 2025
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| Management number | 253420676 | Release Date | 2026/10/24 | List Price | CA$12.00 | Model Number | 253420676 | ||
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The Rust Wine Company is a winery in in British Columbia. Their wines are sourced from five exceptional vineyards planted as far back as 1973, located in the appellations of Okanagan Valley, Similkameen Valley, Okanagan Falls, and the Golden Mile Bench. Their goal is to showcase these distinct terroirs with small lot, single vineyard wines of purpose.
The winemaker is Ryan de Witte, who has enjoyed previous acclaim with single vineyard Pinot Noir and Chardonnays from Niagara’s Leaning Post Wines, which won two consecutive Platinum awards at the National Wine Align Awards of Canada.
Rust Wine grows Gewürztraminer, Merlot, Zinfandel, and Cabernet Sauvignon at their South Rock Vineyard, which with its rocky soils and east-facing slopes at the southern-most end of the Golden Mile Bench produces balanced, mineral reds, and a rich, unctuous Gewürztraminer.
Their Lost Horn Vineyard is their vine nursery. 25% of the site is also being replanted to Pinot Noir, Syrah, and Cabernet Franc. Okanagan falls is one of the most unique sites in British Columbia. Over tens of thousands of years a series of glaciers carved a great valley and left behind mounds of rocky soils. These along with long warm days and cool nights create wines with great acidity and mineral notes.
The Similkameen valley is an amazing place to grow a diversity of varieties. Wind-blown soils, alluvial fans and coarse rocky material have eroded from the surrounding mountains lending a unique soil structure far different than that of the Okanagan Valley. Soils are derived from limestone, schist or granite which gives a desirable mineral sensation to the wine. Lazy River is home to an array of varietals and gets its name from the winding river that makes viticulture here possible. Here, at the Lazy River Vineyard, Rust Wine grows Riesling (1995) Pinot Gris, Gamay, Syrah, and Merlot.
Their Ferreira Vineyard on the Black Sage Bench is planted to Syrah. This is the most awarded viticultural area in Canada. Here in the South East part of the Okanagan Valley vines get more light than any other region in North America. This west-facing block bathes in it which makes it possible to pick grapes up to 2 weeks earlier than on the West side of the valley. The soils here are sandy loam from glacial deposits 10,000 years ago. Known as “The Beach” the sands here can be as much as 300 metres deep.
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