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Chain Reaction: Naramata Road newcomer impresses
Photo: Proprietors Linda and Joel Chamaschuk One of the newest additions to Naramata Road is Chain Reaction Winery, which opens its tasting room this spring at 980 Naramata Road. It is well worth a...
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Mayhem Wines offer a vintage comparison
Photo: Mayhem's Terry Meyer Stone The white wines from the 2020 vintage, most of which were released last year, clearly showed what an impressive vintage that was. Now, 2020 reds have begun to show up,...
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Burrowing Owl wines: they are worth the money
Photo: Burrowing Owl founder Jim WyseA recent conversation with several friends touched on touched on the old debate of whether Okanagan wines are too expensive. There was some discussion of $25-$30...
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Aasha Wines makes impressive Naramata Bench debut
Photo: Winemaker Pascal Madevon (courtesy Aasha Wines) The newest and smallest winery on the Naramata Bench, Aasha Wines Ltd. will be introduced to consumers at the Okanagan Wine Festival in early May....
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Solvero Winery debuts in Garnet Valley
Photo: Solvero president Matt Sartor (courtesy Solvero Winery) When Solvero Winery president Matt Sartor finished his music degree at Dalhousie University, he decided against a career as a concert...
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Sandhill Rosé leads a booming parade
Photo: Sandhill's Sandy LeierThe annual sales of BC VQA rosé wines have reached an astonishing $411 million a year and the category is growing at eight per cent a year Some rosé brands are doing even...
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Frind releases for spring 2022
Photo: Markus Frind (courtesy Frind Estate Winery)When the latest releases of wines from Frind Estate Winery arrived a month or so ago, they included the first wines I had seen from the 2021 vintage. I...
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CheckMate's superb 2018 Merlots
Photo: Winemaker Philip McGahan In the ultimate example of focus, CheckMate Artisanal Winery makes wine from just two varietals, Chardonnay and Merlot. The grapes are all from south Okanagan Vineyards...
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Darryl Brooker becomes CEO of Okanagan Crush Pad
Photo: Winery executive Darryl Brooker (Credit Lionel TrudelAfter an 11-month detour into the cannabis industry, veteran winery executive Darryl Brooker has returned to wine, becoming chief executive...
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Modest Wines has fun with wine
Photo: Winemaker Jeff HundertmarkJeff Hundertmark, the winemaker at Mt. Boucherie Estate Winery, has just made the third release of the winery’s fun portfolio under the Modest label. It is not that the...
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Monte Creek rebrands with new labels
Photo: Monte Creek Winery The wines being released this spring by Kamloops-based Monte Creek Winery all have new labels, representing one of the most effective label redesigns recently by any British...
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Phantom Creek Estates raises the bar
Photo: Phantom Creek proprietor Richter Bai If ever a winery has raised the bar for south Okanagan wineries – and the bar is already high – it is Richter Bai’s Phantom Creek Estates. As the following...
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Mission Hill's Rosé and friends
Photo: Mission Hill chief winemaker Corrie Krehbiel A dozen years ago, the winemaking team at Mission Hill Family Estates had to be leaned on by management before agreeing to make a rosé. How times...
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Okanagan Falls wineries lead off the return of tastings
Photo: Nighthawk Vineyards owners Christy and Daniel Bibby with winemaker son Dakota (centre). After a two-year pandemic interruption, public tastings by British Columbia wineries are back. First out...
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SpearHead champions White Pinot Noir
Photo: SpearHead's Grant StanleyYou could count on the fingers of one hand the number of British Columbia wineries making white Pinot Noir. I know of maybe two. SpearHead Winery in East Kelowna has...
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Volcanic Hills launches Gidda Family Estate wines
Photo: Volcanic Hills president Bobby Gidda Volcanic Hills Estate Winery in West Kelowna is celebrating the legacy of its founding family with the release of small lot wines under the Gidda Family...
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1 Mill Road releases 2020 Pinot Noirs
Photo: Naramata General Store partners Geoffrey Moss (left), Mike Bernardo and David Enns (right). Photo courtesy of NGS. Two excellent Pinot Noirs mark the 20th anniversary of winemaking by David...
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Quails' Gate releases 2021 wines from sustainable vineyards
Photo: Quails' Gate president Tony Stewart Quails’ Gate Estate Winery coupled the release of wines from the 2021 vintage with the announcement that its vineyards have received sustainability...
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Bordertown champions Cabernet Franc
Photo: Bordertown's Mohan Gill Cabernet Franc is the fourth-most planted red varietal in British Columbia, at 12% of all the reds compared with the leader, Merlot, at 28%. With many wineries, Cabernet...
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Hester Creek's ample cooperage yields great white wines
Photo: Hester Creek's winery on the Golden Mile Over the years, Hester Creek Estate Winery has invested in a lot of stainless steel cooperage. Those tanks certainly paid off in the 2021 vintage,...
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