2015 Volcanic Hills Cabernet Sauvignon

2015 Volcanic Hills

Allison Markin - May 1, 2022 / 4:00 am | Story: 367588

Photo: Contributed

Wine: Cabernet Sauvignon, 2015

Winery: Volcanic Hills, West Kelowna

Why drink it? This wine just won double gold at the International Cascadia competition. A deep, dark red in the glass, and a swirl will first give you aromas of blackberry bramble, dark plums, and cedar, then opens to notes of black pepper and cassis. The latter two continue on the palate with a bit of toasty oak emerging, with a pleasant blend of black fruit flavours with black currants dominating. Medium bodied and a bit lighter than expected, and well balanced and with a pleasant finish. This wine is hitting its peak at seven years in the bottle, so consume soon.

Pair with: Grilled tenderloin bruschetta topped with a touch of blue cheese, or a main course of steak with potatoes au gratin on the side. Grilled portobello mushrooms, braised short ribs, or just give a savoury blackberry sauce a shot over your favourite meatballs.

Price: $46

Music pairing: Burning Down, Robert Plant

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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.

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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.