Monthly Staff Picks for August!

Sara
Soca Ruby Red Mist, Vodka Cooler. 4.1% alc low cal & Gluten Free and you’d never know it. Light, refreshing and not too sweet. Available in 4 pack bottles 330ml.

Natysha
Svedka Vodka. Imported from Sweden, distilled five times from Swedish winter wheat, all natural flavours. Exceptionally smooth! Available in 750ml

Holly
Pentage Winery, 2009 Icewine. Voted BC’s #1 Winery 2011. This Ice Wine is made from Viognier, Semillon, Musskat, Sauvignon Blanc & Chardonnay grapes. 10.5% alc, 375ml

Mike
La Posta Cocina Blend 2009, a medium bodied red from Argentina. 60% Malbec, 20% Bonarda, and 20% Syrah, was sourced from three regions of Mendoza, and aged for 10 months in 70% French and 30% American oak, 20% new. Purple-colored, it offers notes of cedar, spice box, pencil lead, blueberry, and black cherry. On the palate gamy notes emerge to accompany the sweet fruit. Easy-drinking and seamless, this tasty wine can be enjoyed over the next 5 years. All four of the La Posta wines are outstanding values. – Advocate 90 Points

Crystal
Cono Sur Bicycle Gewürztraminer (organic) 2011 white from Chile. From the cold, clayish land of Bío-Bío, this beautiful green-yellow Gewürztraminer displays a complex and expressive nose filled with the aromatic presence of fresh fruits, rose petals and hints of spices and litchi fruit. In mouth, it’s an expressive, fresh and savoury wine, with stone fruit notes. A rich, opulent, young Gewürztraminer, very balanced and persistent.

Bev
Mt. Boucherie, Gamay Noir 2009. This lighter-bodied un-oaked red has fresh, clean aromas & flavours of cranberries, red cherry & a hint of rhubarb. Delicious when served slightly chilled! Pair with vegetable couscous, pizza or tapas.