The fruit for this wine is handpicked from their older vines and the wine is named in honour of Valerie Friend as a co-founder of Narkoojee.  The Valerie series is reserved for small parcels of supreme quality wines.  It was fermented by indigenous yeasts and matured in new and one-year old French oak hogsheads.  This is a beautifully balanced, intense and complex wine with a rich creamy texture and natural acidity.