Amphora Viognier 2025

Wine Profile

Viognier is a late ripening variety that requires a long growing season to fully ripen. For this reason, this fruit comes from our Perfect Hedge vineyard in Osoyoos.

Tasting Notes

This expression of Viognier is pure and fragrant. Offering floral aromas of honeysuckle and orange blossoms with honey and Mandarin Orange. The long weighty finish will pair nicely with grilled chicken kebabs or grilled shellfish. Drink from 2026-2030

Winemaking notes

The grapes for this wine were hand picked and double hand sorted before pressing and fermented using wild yeast in two clay Amphorae. The wine was then left to age sur lie another 2 months which developed a round mouthfeel.

Vintage notes

Following a vintage with almost no wine grapes at all, the 2025 vintage in the Okanagan Valley produced a bumper crop. The valley experienced a mild winter thankfully, after the devastating deep freeze of 2024, allowing the surviving vines to rebound and the new plantings to establish themselves. Spring came early, followed by a warm summer and fall producing very high growing degree days without extreme heat spikes that we have had in previous summers. With the favourable conditions came a lot of vigour in the vineyards, requiring careful attention to shoot and bunch thinning. A couple of our varieties exhibited early shrivel or variable skin colouring which may have been a sign of the stress that the vines are still recovering from in the deep freeze of 2024.

Harvest started on September 2nd with our Chardonnay portion of the traditional method sparkling, Market Bubble. Our white and rose wines have nice intensity and balance this year, with a beautiful freshness on the palate. While the reds are aging in barrel, they are showing ripeness in the fruit character and tannin structure with an elegance like the 2022 vintage reds that we produced. Overall, 2025 was a nice reprieve from the two previous short crop vintages, providing a full production of our Laughing Stock wines.

Vineyards

Sourced from Perfect Hedge Vineyard in Osoyoos