Anthony Gismondi: Time to take note of Black Hills Nota Bene

A decade ago, Oliver’s Black Hills Estate Winery hosted a vertical tasting spanning the years 1999 to 2007 of its flagship red Nota Bene at the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival.
I missed that one, but caught up with version 2.0 last month in the Okanagan Valley. This time the tasting covered 18 years between 1999 and 2015, plus a 2016 barrel sample.
In 2007, winery president Glenn Fawcett was reported as saying it was unlikely that Black Hills would hold another vertical tas