Hester Creek Estate Winery Cabernet Franc Rosé 2020

Jennifer Havers rated this wine as 90/100 with the following review:

This wine is so vibrant in the glass, the colour is a lovely magenta pink. Aromas of red cherry, candied strawberry, lime and orange. Medium bodied, off dry with lots of ripe red berry on the palate (almost jammy), with medium acidity providing some balance and a hint of citrus. Enjoy with fruity, summer salads or pork tenderloin.

Deborah Podurgiel WSET IV Candidate rated this wine as 91/100 with the following review:

I love this brilliant pink rosé from Hester Creek. It’s so fresh and friendly! All it wants to do is please and that it does starting with fresh and fruity aromas of rhubarb, red berry, watermelon and a whiff of white pepper spice on the nose. This rosé is so juicy on the palate with bright red cherry, strawberry, raspberry, cotton candy and zesty citrus flavours. Produced from 100% Cabernet Franc from the Oliver and Osoyoos area, grapes were hand-harvested, destemmed and cold soaked whole for four days, pressed, racked and cool-fermented in stainless-steel tanks for 32 days, with individual lots blended and aged in stainless-steel tanks for four months prior to bottling. The result is one juicy, on-this-side of off-dry, rosé.

The 2020 vintage was the 5th warmest in growing degree days in the last 20 years giving amazingly even ripeness and quality fruit, and according to the winemaker “producing wines that are cellar worthy.”

Not a chance! Guaranteed, if you have this rosé in the house, it’s not going to make it to Thanksgiving. Serve chilled on its own or with a charcuterie board. Tasted March 2021.