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Bordertown's Petit Verdot at Vancouver Wine Festival
Photo: Bordertown's Mohan GillA single varietal Petit Verdot wine from a British Columbia winery is a rare wine.In the 2018 vintage (latest figures available), the production of Petit Verdot, at 270...
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Covert Farms embraces regenerative farming
Photo: Gene CovertIn 2019, Gene and Shelly Covert took what they called “a deep dive into the world of regenerative farming” at family-owned Covert Farms, north of Oliver.This farm, established in 1959...
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Culmina scores with 2015 Hypothesis
Photo: Culmina's Golden Mile wineryCulmina Family Estate Winery was so named because it is the culmination of a career in wine for Donald and Elaine Triggs. They founded Culmina in 2007 and sold it in...
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CheckMate Little Pawn Chardonnay scores 100 again
Photo: Jagged Rock VineyardCheckMate Artisanal Winery is about to announce its spring release: four Chardonnays and two Merlots that are among the benchmark wines of the Okanagan.At a previous spring...
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Liquidity Wines acquired by Anthony von Mandl
Photo: Liquidity founder Ian MacDonaldIn the latest example of Okanagan winery consolidation, Anthony von Mandl’s Iconic Wineries of British Columbia has acquired 12-year-old Liquidity Wines Ltd. of...
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Osoyoos Larose offers Le Grand Vin vertical
Photo: Raphaël MerlautOsoyoos Larose Winery had a clever strategy at the Vancouver International Wine Festival: it offered a four-vintage vertical of its flagship Le Grand Vin.Perhaps that emerged as a...
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Complications of French wines
Photo: Burgundy's Laurent Drouhin“C’est compliqué!”With that phrase, wine writer and co-moderator Jon Bonné set the theme for the plenary session on French wine at the 2020 Vancouver International Wine...
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Sandra Oldfield offers sage advice
Photo: Sandra Oldfield (credit Chris Mason Stearns)More and more British Columbia wineries have stopped offering tastings. Some may have shut their wine shops entirely to further social distancing in...
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Meyer wine is tribute for artist Gordon Smith
Photo: Vintner and art lover JAK MeyerMeyer Family Vineyards has the tradition of making a “tribute” Chardonnay each vintage, with $5,000 going to a cause associated with the honoree.Over the years,...
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COVID-19 and BC wineries
Photo: Lorraine and Ted Kane of River Stone Estate WineryIt is clear that the wine touring season that should have started in April in British Columbia will not happen. Most consumers are restricted to...
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40 Knots champions orange wine
Photo: Brenda Hetman Craig and Layne CraigIn recent years, more and more wineries have begun to release orange wines.The first examples I tasted struck me as a fad, and one that I hoped would soon...
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Blue Mountain, fingers crossed, schedules harvest dinner
Photo: Blue Mountain's scenic vineyardShortly after releasing these two wines, Blue Mountain Vineyard & Cellars also announced its harvest dinner is scheduled for August 29.At $145 a person, the...
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Merridale also makes hand sanitizers
Photo: Merridale's hand sanitizer (courtesy of Merridale)The following heart-warming story was emailed this week to the customers of Merridale Cidery and Distillery, the pioneering producer of apple...
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SpearHead releases trio of 2019s
Photo: SpearHead's Grant StanleyThe recent releases from East Kelowna’s SpearHead Winery provide an early glimpse of the 2019 vintage, at least in the North Okanagan.The verdict: looking good for what...
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Sperling's Natural Amber and friends
Photo: winemaker Ann SperlingIf natural orange wines gain traction with consumers, some of the credit is due to Ann Sperling, one of the proprietors and the senior winemaker at Kelowna’s Sperling...
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Fort Berens has a new team
Photo: Winemaker James CambridgeThe latest four releases from Lillooet’s Fort Berens Estate Winery reflect the handiwork of the new guard in the vineyard and in the winery.In 2019, Andrew Stone, a...
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Hester Creek's Rob Summers leaves on a high note
Photo: Winemaker Robert SummersA slight sadness came to mind while tasting these 2019 wines from Hester Creek Estate Winery: they are from the last vintage touched by Robert Summers, the long-time...
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Maverick winery has new owners
Photo: Maverick wine shopIn the week that my Okanagan Wine Tour Guide has been released, a major winery ownership change has been announced, beginning the process of making the book out of...
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Schönburger and friends from Black Widow
Photo: Dick LancasterBlack Widow Winery is one the few producers with a Schönburger in its portfolio. The vine was already planted in this Naramata property, along with Pinot Gris and Gewürztraminer,...
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Sandhill Rosé 2019 lifts the spirits
Photo: Winemaker Sandy LeierSandy Leier, the winemaker at Sandhill Wines, has delivered the perfect rosé from the 2019 vintage to lift our spirits at this time.I always identify rosé wines with the...
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