Located on the famed Black Sage Bench in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley, Phantom Creek Estates is most famous for its red wines, but it’s is actually the white wines you want to come here for. Not that the big and texturally imposing reds aren’t very well made and noteworthy in their own right, but their appeal is undoubtedly highest with those consumers who enjoy California-styled jammy-low acid-the bigger the better-red wines. By contrast, Phantom Creek’s minerally, savoury, deep, and fresh white wines are even more spectacular, not just fresher, minerally and precise, but also pair better with a larger variety of foods. To that end, it’s the estate’s Pinot Gris wines that are especially impressive, with the single-vineyard Evernden Spring Vineyard Small Lot bottling a world-class wine. Simply put, there are very few other New World Pinot Gris made anywhere that can hold a candle to it.
