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2 reviews for Seven Stones Winery
2 reviews in English
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Review from Sheila W.
BC
1/21/2009 4 photos
We got a good feeling about Seven Stones as soon as we were welcomed by their friendly Golden Retriever. It's really easy to find their shop because it's just off the highway. The view of the mountains and the valley is amazing from their tasting shop.
The hosts are really friendly, and the owners/growers/winemakers, so you can ask them anything and they know the answer! He told us the 2006 Meritage ($31.99) is the best wine he's ever made. I'm not going to argue with the man. It is mainly a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot but with a touch of Cab Franc.
Also the 2005 Cabernet Merlot ($29.99) really impressed me. The wine smelled so good you almost forgot you were supposed to be tasting it. It was velvety on the tongue, had a clean finish and would be great with or without food. I enjoyed a bottle a few months later and the complexity of the wine really came out in the glass.Listed in: Similkameen Wineries
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Review from Christine R.
New Westminster, BC
7/17/2010
What a pretty little winery this is. The tasting room is perched on the edge of a cliff, looking out over a valley and a horse farm below. (Slightly stinky, but then again, horsies!)
I entered the tasting room/wine shop, where there's a nice big bar with a relief map at one end that shows the seven stones (or rocks) of the Similkameen Valley from which the winery takes its name. Images of each of the seven stones adorns each wine bottle - could it be a coincidence that one of my favourite wines from the tasting, the Meritage, had an image of Standing Rock on it? However, the wine label images omit the graffiti that decorates the real thing. I've always had a place in my heart for Team Slut.
The tasting itself included seven wines - Chardonnay, Pinot Rose, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Meritage, and Syrah - in order from lighter and drier to fuller and sweeter. The lighter wines didn't really do it for me, and Pinot Noir has always tasted like pickles to me, but the Merlot and Meritage were quite nice, and could be nicer with a bit of aging.
The lady leading the tasting said that she was quite new to the winery and had only just begun manning the bar on her own, but she did quite well. My favourite part of the tasting was when she demoed the use of a neat little gizmo on the Syrah bottle that decants the wine just as it's poured. The mini-glass decanter with a twisting tube looked like something out of a lab. And she seemed to have the wrist action down.
This has nothing to do with Seven Stones particularly but why o why do wines have to be so expensive in BC? I'd love to buy more that a couple of samples from local wineries like this one, but for the bucks I have not.
