La Stella - LaStellina Rosato 2025

La Stella - LaStellina Rosato 2025Severine Pinte is winemaker with two of the Okanagans most interesting wine projects, Le Vieux Pin and La Stella. Both under the same ownership, the former is more French Rhne oriented, while the second is a Canadian Super Tuscan, making Italian style wines in a winery with Tuscan Villa architecture. And now theres a third in the portfolio: natural wine project Artakama. All are owned by the same couple from Vancouver, and share the same philosophy:

complemented by the meticulous selection of vineyards

A double manual selection process ensures only the best grapes are used

and silky smoothness on the palate

Exiled as a result of the Spanish Civil War

Cantina Tollo welcomes innovation both in the field and in the cellar

Then comes Aubaine from a parcel in the commune of Tracy

and carrot ginger soup

Nestled in the Wairau and Awatere Valleys

The grapes are then hand picked and delivered to the winery and gently worked through the destemmer before being transferred to an open fermenter

and the company changed names a number of times

it was virgin territory: tracts of semi-desert

In a full-circle turn