2018 Okanagan Crush Pad Bizou + Yukon Pinkie Rosé

Okanagan Crush Pad Rosé

Allison Markin - May 29, 2022 / 4:00 am | Story: 369640

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Wine: Bizou + Yukon Pinkie Rosé, 2018

Winery: Okanagan Crush Pad, Summerland

Why drink it? The label is inspired by the two Great Pyrenees pooches who roam the vineyards and have fans checking in on them via social media. The wine is a reflection of, and perfect for, chilling with your canine besties. Aromas of red summer berries, meadow flowers, with hints of citrus. The red berries are joined by sour cherry and watermelon notes on the palate, with a bit of tart cranberry juice. Bright and refreshing acidity throughout, that peaks on the juicy finish with a lift of mouth-watering grapefruit. Pinkie is also now available in convenient picnic-friendly cans.

Pair with: Whatever snacks you have on hand that you can toss on a patio table or a picnic blanket on a hot day, with not a care to be had except who has the best ‘life hack’ for making the best onion dip out of a soup packet and the dill growing in the backyard.

Price: $20

Music pairing: Flowers In Your Hair, The Lumineers

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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.