Last Night’s Wine — 2002 Osoyoos Larose Le Grand Vin

This was one of these sort of oddities in local wine drinking. A group of friends and I went to Martini’s in Penticton after a show at the Dream Café and ended up somehow scoring a bottle of Osoyoos Larose Le Grand Vin 2002 for $50. In restaurant price that is a great deal as I believe it would normally sell for $80-100.

What I initially thought to be a blunder on the part of the bartender, may have actually been intentional. Despite the supposed aging potential of this Bordeaux blend it just didn’t stack up. I’ve tried this wine several times and liked it, despite being young, but this one may have gone too far. 2002 as far as I know was also one of their first vintages.

I have to say I was a little disappointed, but perhaps it was the storage conditions or some other non-ideal circumstance that led it to taste as it did, just kind of lifeless in terms of fruit and maybe a little bit of vinegar action. I don’t think this bottle was corked, but perhaps it didn’t have an ideal life in storage.

The bottom of the bottle was very sediment and wine diamond heavy as well, so it just wasn’t that pleasurable. I will give a later vintage a chance sometime soon. I want to believe in the French presence here in the Okanagan!