wine profile

The 2025 vintage is ripe with tropical aromas of guava and mango with notes of lilies and peonies. The palate is rich and weighty, offering a mix of honey and Okanagan peach. The bright acidity quenches the palate and adds to the long and flavorful finish. This will pair beautifully with herbed citrus grilled shrimp and scallops.

The Blind Trust White was produced between 2011 and 2014 but discontinued until 2022. The 2025 vintage is the fourth version of this reimagined wine. Only 230 cases produced.

Winemaking Notes

Our winemaking choices for this vintage include whole cluster pressing for a fresh fruit profile and partial malolactic fermentation to provide a soft, round texture on the palate. This vintage was fermented in stainless steel.

If you want to blind taste the Blind Trust, read no further. Spoiler alert: this year’s blend is 80% Sauvignon Blanc and 20% Semillon. 

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

Covert Farm and Lavoie