2020 Wild Goose Sauvignon Blanc

Wild Goose Sauv Blanc

Allison Markin - Mar 20, 2022 / 4:00 am | Story: 363413

Photo: Contributed

Wine: Sauvignon Blanc, 2020

Winery: Wild Goose, Okanagan Falls

Why drink it? This is the winery’s first Sub-Gi labelled wine, designating it as an Okanagan Falls wine as the grapes are from the OK Falls area, and nowhere else. Sauv blanc is a great choice for early spring, with its flinty, green grass aromas that remind one of the air after a spring rain has just passed, along with classic gooseberry and tart apple notes. The citrusy grapefruit and lemon palate has some passionfruit and pineapple tropical bits, and a bigger mouthfeel than expected. It’s mouthwatering thanks to its acidity, with a decently long finish.

Pair with: Fruit salad, green apple slices, your favourite cucumber salad, almost any fresh green vegetable dish, or herbed tofu creations. A goat cheese and asparagus tart. Crab cakes with a bright aioli, or fresh prawns.

Price: $23

Music pairing: Think About Things, Daði Freyr

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About the Author

As a kid, Shelley Boettcher often found herself in the back seat of a pick-up, exploring the back roads of the Okanagan Valley with her parents. They’d occasionally leave her and her brother in the car while they stopped at mysterious addresses to buy wine. They would emerge, clearly happy, as they stuck a box or a few bottles in the vehicle. Then they would continue on their journey.

But it wasn’t until a trip to Spain in 2000 that Shelley herself fell in love with wine. She came home from the holiday and promptly told her editor she wanted to become a wine writer.

And she did.

An award-winning food and wine writer and editor, Shelley holds her master’s degree in journalism and her advanced WSET certification, as well as her level 2 International Sommelier Guild certification. A wine columnist for the Calgary Herald, she spent a decade as CBC Radio’s national syndicated wine columnist and she has written three books about wine, including two that were Canadian bestsellers. Her byline has appeared in magazines and newspapers around the world, including the New York Times, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail and Postmedia newspapers across Canada.

Shelley has travelled throughout many of the world’s wine regions and countries, including Niagara, Oregon, Washington, California, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Australia, Germany, Argentina and the Republic of Georgia. A few years ago, she even tracked down and visited a winery in Denmark.

Shelley has also served as a professional wine judge regionally and internationally, including the Okanagan Wine Festivals, Vinitaly and the Chianti Classico Consortium. For more than a decade, she has been a restaurant wine list judge for the Vancouver International Wine Festival, too. She still teases her parents for sparking her love for wine, especially BC wine.

And her favourite? Whatever she's drinking at the moment.

You can follow Shelley on Instagram @shelleyboettcher or Twitter at @shelley_wine.

If you have a BC wine you’d like to suggest, email Shelley at [email protected] with the name of the wine and a short note about why you enjoyed it.