The electric wines of Scout are finally here! This is the mixed pack - one or two bottles of skin contact Riesling et Al, Rose & Syrah-Riesling Co-Ferment. As always, deals when you bundle. :)

Scout, ‘Riesling, et al’, Riesling & Gewurz & friends, Similkameen Valley, B.C.  As the name implies, this is a blend of predominantly (72%, to be exact) Riesling with a little help from its friends Gewurztraminer, Muscat & Pinot Gris. Spontaneously fermented with 14 days skin contact before being pressed into neutral oak for an additional 7 months of fermentation & lees-aging, this unfined & unfiltered BC skin contact is a powerful fire sign gemstone, a phoenix who just rose from the ashes & is big time down to party in its hot new post-ashes life. Like it is literally driving to Burning Man in a vintage school bus as we speak. Fiery acidity is flawlessly balanced by soft, plush peach texture & a really lovely little hit of tannic structure that doesn’t call a ton of attention to itself but once you notice it you’re not hesitant to throw around the word genius to describe it. Classically Austro-Germanic aromatics on the nose: spiced apricot, passionfruit nectar, lychee compote; palate brings us the same flavour profile only this time hooked up to a wah-wah pedal with heaps of feedback, scratchy & fearless, a wine that always picks ‘dare’ in a game of truth or dare, & will inspire you to do the same.   

Scout, ‘Rosé’, Cab Sauv & Pinot Gris & friends, Similkameen Valley, B.C. A sexy darkish rosé blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and skin contact Pinot Gris, Gew, Muscat & Riesling, it’s sort of like Cab Sauv is a square dad who agreed to chaperone his punky adolescent daughter & her four best pals to a Harry Styles concert & along the way had a handful of life revelations & actually had the best time ever & is now a diehard Harry Styles fan for life. Which is to say, forget everything you knew about Cab Sauv & get on board with its laissez-faire & fun-loving new self. Cab Sauv is so sick of wearing a suit to work every day & constantly making that “I hated it” joke while showing his empty plate to the server every time he eats dinner in a restaurant. The grapes in this wine were spontaneously fermented but also imagine, if you will, a metaphorical ‘spontaneous fermentation’; metaphor or no metaphor, the grapes (all grown in different vineyard sites), were then pressed gently into qvevris & neutral barrels & aged on the lees for 7 months. This is a spicy & freaky red-fruit driven rosé with unapologetic acidity & a gorgeous forever finish, the aromatic white grapes don’t let Cab Sauv walk all over them, rather the whole gang intermingles & works together in a collaborative supergroup effort: strawberry funnel cake, cherry coke lipsmacker, peach cobbler, underripe golden raspberry. Sorry to lay this on so thick but obviously it pairs really well with Harry Styles, musically, aesthetically, & just as a general life energy. 

Scout, ‘Syrah : Riesling’, Syrah & Riesling (obviously), Similkameen Valley, B.C. Syrah & Riesling are kind of an odd couple, no? But they’re an odd couple in the best possible way, like when your wildest bad influence friend who lives to party ends up with a real square math professor but like they just seem to GET each other, & are somehow perfectly balanced in their extreme state of imbalance. This musky, juicy yin-yang of a red/white blend was made by throwing some whole cluster Syrah bunches into qvevri & pouring in some freshly pressed Riesling juice until it covered the Syrah bunches. The whole melange was then sealed up & left to co-ferment in a whimsical homage to carbonic maceration. The result is a very special wine, an electric Kool-Aid Riesling/Syrah lovechild with a beautifully clear & glycolic mouthfeel, like the feeling of jumping feet first into an unpolluted lake. The Syrah reveals itself largely on the nose with its savoury notes of smoky saucisson & black pepper, on the palate Riesling screeches onto the scene like a baseball player sliding into home. Grapey & bright Bubblicious juicebox, an unstoppable magenta in the glass, the late summer fling you’ve spent the whole pandemic waiting for.