Some wines just stick in your mind, and this dazzling, generous Viognier will certainly be one of them.
Silence is a glamorous, spicy and intoxicatingly perfumed white with an inviting nose of sandalwood and acacia honey. Barrel-fermented, then aged for an additional seven months in oak, the palate is full-bodied as all get out and makes no apologies! If oaked whites are not your vibe, do not come knocking at her door! It is, quite honestly, your loss.
Fruit flavours of macerated apricot, caramelized pineapple and ginger-spiked marmalade give way to a long and vigorous finish. Pair with an aromatic Moroccan chicken tagine and your most powerful diva energy.
GOOD FOR —
Cosplaying as Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra
Drinking from a bejeweled golden chalice (if you happen to have one lying around…)
Pre-gaming before a Beyonce concert with your expensive fun aunt
Feeling like the most confident and empowered version of yourself who ever existed!
• Vintage: 2019
• Grapes: 100% Viognier
• Appellation: Okanagan Valley Region, Naramata Bench
• ABV: 12.8%
• Acidity: 4.80 g/l tartaric acid
• pH: 3.73
• Aging/Maturation (Fermentation): Fermented in barrels, malolactic fermentation. Aged 7 month in French Oak barrels.
• Recommended Drinking: Now through 2025
Throw in the fridge for 30 minutes, open and drink when cold. Keep on ice as you drink, or let the temperature come up as you get through the bottle to experience some of the more subtle notes of the wine.
THE STORY BEHIND THE WINE
SILENCE
Paris has its own energy, a liveliness that escalates as the sun sets. Chatter on the streets, a general exuberance and glasses add to a civilized symphony. Moonlight on old cobblestones shimmers like gentle waves on a lake. I wouldn’t call them gentlemen, but there were four, and they stumbled through the streets after a charming dinner.
Two nights in a row, they’d been turned away without a glance of what was behind the velvet rope. Energy flowed out of the small door in the form of lively music, and like moths, they were drawn back.
Tonight was the night, they would not be denied. “Give me one reason why we can’t come in”
Sadly, third time’s a charm did not apply here. “I’ll give you three…” They walked away quietly knowing that one day, they would have their redemption.