Painted Rock, Red Icon, Skaha Bench

Big wine - fleshy, juicy, firm tannins. Based on today, would last another ten years, probably peak at five-six. Multilayered flavours, nose evolved over 1 hour. Decanted 1 hour prior.

- Garnet color.

Big juicy deep red colour. Smoked meat & game with sweet cherry and tobacco on the nose. Decanted an hour before consuming and was nicely opened up. Solid medium to long finish. High complexity and could use a bit more time to settle down, but not too much more. Will try another in six months.

Took some time to open up, but when it did, excellent.

shallow and not lasting. try again in 2014

No formal notes. Consistently good BC red

try again in 2012 (late)

Excellent, great mouthfeel, strong finish.

No formal note

BC Wine Tasting [Colour] (Vancouver Convention Centre [West]) : Not Yet Relased A: Floral, Dark, Tight T: Red fruit, floral, great structure, clean, precise Conc: I think I like this more then the 07, esp with the floral notes, will love to see it open and evolve

Painted Rock Portfolio Tasting (Wine Vault) : !!!!THIS IS A BARREL SAMPLE, Final BLEND still in Barrel for another 4 Months!!! 20% Petit Verdot, 30% Merlot, 25% Cab Franc, 25% Malbec A: med+ Intensity, Cherry, Rich T: Med Acid, Med+ Tannin[Silky], Red Fruit, Opening up with "Sweet Tannins and Ripe Fruit' Conclusion: Would like to see this affter a year in bottle to calm down, but the Vines are still young and not getting a lot of 2nd'ry Complexitiies yet