232601
232884
Wine-Reviews

Priest Creek Pretty in Pink rosé

Pretty in Pink rosé

Wine: Pretty in Pink (rosé), 2020

Winery: Priest Creek, Kelowna

Why drink it? Props to this winery for literally planning to open its doors the day everything shut down in March 2020, then forging ahead to now be welcoming guests. Raise a glass of this lovely rosé, named for the owners’ daughter, to their perseverance. Estate Pinot Noir grapes produce a watermelon-coloured wine, with aromas of strawberry-cream candies and raspberry bramble. The palate brings together the strawberry and watermelon elements for a refreshing sip that ends with a tart rhubarb note. Perfect for a hot day, it lands right in the middle of dry and slightly sweet.

Pair with: Retro movie night, a reunion with high school friends, sweet BBQ potato chips, grilled stone fruits. A raspberry, rhubarb, or strawberry pie with a side of real whipped cream, or simply chill a bottle and enjoy on a hot day.

Price: $27

Music pairing: If You Leave, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark



More Wine Reviews articles

225769
About the Author

As a kid, Shelley Boettcher often found herself in the back seat of a pick-up, exploring the back roads of the Okanagan Valley with her parents. They’d occasionally leave her and her brother in the car while they stopped at mysterious addresses to buy wine. They would emerge, clearly happy, as they stuck a box or a few bottles in the vehicle. Then they would continue on their journey.

But it wasn’t until a trip to Spain in 2000 that Shelley herself fell in love with wine. She came home from the holiday and promptly told her editor she wanted to become a wine writer.

And she did. 

An award-winning food and wine writer and editor, Shelley holds her master’s degree in journalism and her advanced WSET certification, as well as her level 2 International Sommelier Guild certification. A wine columnist for the Calgary Herald, she spent a decade as CBC Radio’s national syndicated wine columnist and she has written three books about wine, including two that were Canadian bestsellers. Her byline has appeared in magazines and newspapers around the world, including the New York Times, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail and Postmedia newspapers across Canada. 

Shelley has travelled throughout many of the world’s wine regions and countries, including Niagara, Oregon, Washington, California, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Australia, Germany, Argentina and the Republic of Georgia. A few years ago, she even tracked down and visited a winery in Denmark. 

Shelley has also served as a professional wine judge regionally and internationally, including the Okanagan Wine Festivals, Vinitaly and the Chianti Classico Consortium. For more than a decade, she has been a restaurant wine list judge for the Vancouver International Wine Festival, too. She still teases her parents for sparking her love for wine, especially BC wine.

And her favourite? Whatever she's drinking at the moment.

You can follow Shelley on Instagram @shelleyboettcher or Twitter at @shelley_wine. 

If you have a BC wine you’d like to suggest, email Shelley at [email protected] with the name of the wine and a short note about why you enjoyed it. 

RECENT STORIES
228921
229484