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Class of 2016: Liber Farm & Winery
Photo: Liber owners Mike and Nicole Dowell, with son ConnorLiber Farm & Winery156 Sumac RoadCawston, BC, V0X 1C3T: 250.499.5305When Mike and Nicole Dowell opened the Liber Farm tasting room in July...
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Howling Bluff goes solar
Photo: Pinot Noir producer Luke SmithIt appears that the experience of growing wine has turned former stockbroker Luke Smith, the proprietor of Howling Bluff Estate Wines, into an environmentalist.The...
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Summerhill's versatile winemaking
Photo: The Summerhill wine-aging pyramid (Courtesy Edward Ross PhotographyKelowna’s Summerhill Pyramid Winery is on a roll this year. Examples:· The winery’s 2013 ‘Small Lot’ Sémillon Icewine...
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Pinot Noir bids to be BC's signature grape
Photo: cluster of Pinot Noir grapesIs Pinot Noir emerging at British Columbia’s signature wine? An increasing number of wineries and consumers would say yes.It is a longstanding debate whether a...
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Vanessa Vineyard opens a tasting room
Photo: Vanessa owners John Welson and Suki SekhonVanessa Vineyard1090 Highway 3, Cawston, BC, V0X 1C3T. 250.499.8811Vanessa Vineyard’s slogan is “carved from stone, fuelled by sun, a vineyard like no...
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Singletree releases its first Grüner Veltliner
Photo:Singletree's Andrew EtsellAbbotsford’s Singletree Winery has released the first Fraser Valley-grown Grüner Veltliner wine.The renowned white varietal of Austria, Grüner Veltliner has been grown...
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Road 13 tilts toward the Rhône
Photo: Road 13's Joe LuckhurstLast summer, when winemaker Jeff Del Nin took over at Road 13 Vineyard from J-M Bouchard, he remarked to a friend that opportunities like Road 13 don’t come along very...
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The View raises its Pinotage profile
Photo: The View's Jennifer MolgatMellasat Vineyards in South Africa likes to bill itself as the “home of White Pinotage.” Its first vintage of a white wine from South Africa’s iconic red varietal was...
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Laughing Stock releases contrast two vintages
Photo: David Enns in the Laughing Stock cellarThe latest releases from Laughing Stock Vineyards show off the Okanagan’s two most recent vintages. The contrast between them was dramatic.The 2016...
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SpierHead builds new winery
Photo: SpierHead's Bill KnutsonThe construction activity this summer at SpierHead Wine in East Kelowna is for a new production facility.“We are currently bottling about 4,000 cases per year,” says...
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Bella's artisanal sparkling wines
Photo: Jay Drysdale and Wendy RoseThe tasting room at Bella Wines is one of the most remote among the Naramata Bench wineries. Even so, it is only the middle of August and most of the wines are sold...
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Class of 2016: Anthony Buchanan Wines
Photo: Nicole and Anthony BuchananUntil recently, Gray Monk’s George and Trudy Heiss were the only winery owners in BC who had previously been hairdressers.That ceased to be unique when Anthony...
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Fitzpatrick's gold medal bubble and friends
Photo: Gordon Fitzpatrick toasts a gold medalGordon Fitzpatrick, the proprietor of Fitzpatrick Family Vineyards at Peachland, was elated when the winery received a gold medal at the recent National...
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Backyard Vineyards tasting July 2017
Winemaker James CambridgeLangley Township’s Backyard Vineyards has clearly found its feet after a long journey.The property opened in 2002 as Glenugie Winery, a name that emerged from the Scots...
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Tall Tales garagiste Kyle Lyons
Photo: Kyle LyonsYou are likely to get a chuckle, if not a belly laugh, from the back labels of the wines Kyle Lyons makes at his Tall Tale Wines.Here is the back label from his 2016 Syrah Nouveau: “At...
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JoieFarm takes on Champagne
Photo: JoieFarm's Heidi NobleHeidi Noble, the proprietor of JoieFarm Winery on Naramata Road, asserts that sparkling wines are not reserved just for special occasions.“Bubble is for every day,” she...
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Tinhorn Creek releases a trio of reserves
Photo: Tinhorn Creek winemaker Andrew Windsor The three excellent reserve wines recently released by Tinhorn Creek Vineyards includes illuminating background information on the winery’s two...
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Township 7's Mary McDermott's 2016s
Photo: Winemaker Mary McDermottBy now, I have come to look forward to tasting the art of Mary McDermott, the winemaker at Township 7 Vineyards & Winery since 2014.The wines never disappoint. That...
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River Stone 2013 Corner Stone and friends
Photo: River Stone's Ted KaneRiver Stone Estate Winery’s top red wine, Corner Stone, is included in my new book, Icon: Flagship Wines from British Columbia’s Best Wineries.Other products from this...
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Chaberton Winery gives new life to Madeleine Sylvaner
Photo: Cbaberton winemaker Andrea LeeAt Langley’s Chaberton Estate Winery, Andrea Lee, the winemaker there since 2015, has brilliantly revived Madeleine Sylvaner as an estate-grown white wine. And she...
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