Eagle Bluff Vineyards 2015 Crooked Post Pinot Noir - 90pts

Eagle Bluff Vineyards 2015 Crooked Post Pinot Noir (McIntyre Bluff) Okanagan Valley - BC

Availability: Contact winery directly here
Cost: $25
Alcohol: 13.8%
Production: 
Date Tasted: July 10th, 2017
@FairviewCellars

Tasting Notes: Fairview's approachable-now, medium-everything Pinot Noir, produced under the Eagle Bluff Vineyards label, offers a nice blend of ripe and brambly red fruits with layers of earthy and savoury notes; cherry, raspberry skin, huckleberry, sun-warmed rocky soil and mellow spice. Acid is on-point and punctuates the long finish where light herbs and spice linger. Drink now-2019.

 - Liam Carrier ©copyright 2017 IconWines.ca

Eagle Bluff Estate 2014 Crooked Post Chardonnay - 88pts

Eagle Bluff Estate 2014 Crooked Post Chardonnay (McIntyre Bluff) Okanagan Valley - BC

Availability: Contact winery directly here
Cost: $23.90
Alcohol: 13.8%
Production: 80 cases
Date Tasted: July 15th, 2015

Tasting Notes: Fairview Cellar's first Chardonnay, released under the Eagle Bluff Estate label, opens with an intriguing nose of smoked butter, baked apples and mandarin slices. The smokiness continues on the medium-plus bodied, nicely textured palate where citrus fruit and mineral notes join the party, creating a crisp backbone for the smoky oak and orchard fruit flavours on offer. Finishes long with lingering vanilla, lemon rind and spice notes. Drink now-2016.
 - Liam Carrier ©copyright 2015 IconWines.ca

Eagle Bluff Estate 2013 Crooked Post Pinot Noir - 89pts

Eagle Bluff Estate 2013 Crooked Post Pinot Noir (McIntyre Bluff) Okanagan Valley

Availability: Limited. Contact winery directly

Cost: $26-30
Alcohol: 13%
Production: 400 cases
Date Tasted: June 29th, 2015
@FairviewCellars

Tasting Notes: Fairview's popular Pinot Noir is made without bleeding a portion of the juice off the skins during the crush to intensify the colour and flavours - this wine needs no alternation to add intensity, it has heaps of natural red fruit and earth flavours to begin with.

Look for layers of cherry, raspberry skin, huckleberry, boysenberry, sun-drenched earth and river stone aromas on the nose followed by a bright palate of similar fruit flavours and a kiss of vanilla-infused oak. A touch of spice and berry notes linger on the long finish. Drink now-2017.
 - Liam Carrier ©copyright 2015 IconWines.ca

Eagle Bluff Estate 2011 Crooked Post Pinot Noir - 88pts

Eagle Bluff Estate 2011 Crooked Post Pinot Noir (Okanagan Falls) Okanagan Valley - BC

Availability: Contact winery directly here
Cost: $23.90
Alcohol: 13.1%
Production: 90 cases
Date Tasted: October 13th, 2013

Tasting Notes: What's 'red', 'fluid' and 'light' all over? Bill Eggert's 2011 Crooked Post Pinot Noir, that's what.

The 'red' refers to the envelop of red fruit that greets you on the smooth, quietly intense nose and the similarly flavoured palate. 'Fluid' refers to the texture of said palate whose balance of acidity and fruit flavours, primarily pomegranate and cranberry, is spot on and mouth-watering. 'Light' is everything else; the colour, the body, the oak treatment, the mouth feel and the finish. Drink now-2016.
 - Liam Carrier ©copyright 2013 IconWines.ca

Eagle Bluff Estate 2010 Crooked Post Pinot Noir - 90+pts

Eagle Bluff Estate 2010 Crooked Post Pinot Noir (Okanagan Falls) Okanagan Valley - BC

Availability: Contact winery directly here
Cost: $29.90
Alcohol: 13.1%
Production: 90 cases
Date Tasted: May 6th, 2012

Tasting Notes: Produced by Fairview Cellars, not as a "second label" or inferior brand, but rather with a singular identify, separate from Fairview which is best known for big red blends and crisp Sauvignon Blanc. The 2010 release takes an impressive leap forward from the previous two vintages toward a more classic, elegant and delicate, medium-bodied Pinot Noir presentation as winemaker Bill Eggert gets more familiar with the "heartbreak grape." No juice was bled off from the must to intensify the colour, resulting in a lighter Pinot in appearance, but one that delivers a full spectrum of flavours ranging from forest floor to juicy plum and raspberry fruit.

As the Eagle Bluff Estate property ramps-up production, Eggert will switch to estate fruit for this label, likely begining with the 2012 vintage. This lovely Pinot is well balanced and drinking beautifully now, yet, should hold for the next 3-4 years. Further development is likely, but, thus far unproven. Drink now-2016.
 - Liam Carrier ©copyright 2012 IconWines.ca