Herbal, leafy and minty nose makes for a savoury wine, but this also has some nice berry fruit and a smooth texture....

This is a big wine from the Black Sage Vineyard in BC's Okanagan Valley with perfumed lifted aromas of black cherry...

There is no denying the latent quality in this Black Sage Bench-grown malbec. It is young and very tightly wound...

Touch over-oaked for the moment, but underneath there is some decent fruit. Like to see this in a year or two and see...

Facing naysayers head-on, this Okanagan Valley malbec impressed with its concentrated and dense musk-scented black...

Aggregate final score from judges at the 2015 National Wine Awards of Canada. June 2015.