Quick Conversations In Wine – Heleen Pannekoek from Fort Berens Winery The Vancouver International Wine Festival is on and we’ve interviewed a few of the attendees that you can meet at the 2024 Festival. Here’s our Q&A with Heleen Pannekoek from Fort Berens Winery in Lillooet, British Columbia. Find more on the Wine Festival here. When…
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Alison Moyes Liquidity Wines
Quick Conversations in Wine Alison Moyes Liquidity Wines Right around this time each year, we’d be madly going through the list of wines to add to our must taste list, arranging interviews with visiting wine royalty, and practising our spitting technique, all to prepare for the one and only Vancouver International Wine Festival. Sadly, it’s…
HELI-WINE TOURING LANDS IN THE BC INTERIOR
More than two dozen wineries in the Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys are included on the growing itinerary of stops available on a unique new Heli-Wine Tour service offered by West Kelowna-based Valhalla Helicopters. Up to four people at a time can charter a Bell-206 chopper from Valhalla, leaving Kelowna International Airport for a total of…
ELEVEN WINES WIN LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S AWARDS
Ten wines have been named winners of 2011 Lieutenant Governor’s Awards for Excellence in BC Wines. They were chosen from among this year’s total entries of 309 wines from 83 wineries across the province. This is the ninth year of the Awards program, begun in 2003 by then Lieutenant Governor Iona Campagnolo. It honours excellence…
Poplar Grove Winery opens new doors
Poplar Grove Winery has just opened a brand new, 9500 square foot, state-of-the-art winery on top of Munson Mountain at the gateway to the Naramata Bench. The new winery space is home to a working winery, showcase barrel hall and an expansive tasting room. Location: 425 Middle Bench Road North, Naramata Bench, Penticton, BC…
McWatters Collection Inaugural Release
Canadian Wine Pioneer Begins Another First With New Okanagan Wine Harry McWatters, a driving force in the development of British Columbia’s wine industry, is pleased to announce the launch of his own estate wine, McWatters Collection, from one of the Black Sage Bench’s first vinifera vineyards, originally planted in 1993. The first release of the…
News from Pentage
2011 B.C. Winery of the Year! The results are in from The All Canadian Wine Championships 2011. We are a proud recipient of 4 new medals: Double Gold (Best in Category) – Viognier 2009 Gold—Pinot Gris 2010 Gold—Sauvignon Blanc 2010 Silver—Chardonnay 2007 To view the complete competition results click here. If you blink you’ll miss…
De Vino Winery Opens for the Summer
The 2011 De Vine Taste Experience As the sun finally shines upon the breathtaking beauty that is the Saanich Peninsula De Vine welcomes all of you back to our Tasting Room at our Vineyard (map) as we unveil our exciting new wines for this late but truly beautiful season. During our first few weeks open…
Vista D’Oro – News from the farm
Happy Spring! Finally! We’ve had crazy weather this past month, from hail storms to days of such heat, that the greenhouse was (almost) unbearable, but at long last it looks like spring is here to stay! Funny but the above was cut and pasted from last May’s newsletter and it applied to this May as…
News from Wild Goose Winery #BCWine
It has been a long time coming, but I can assure you that the wait will be well worth it! We have now released the 2010 vintage of white wines. Although the overall vintage is down in size, the quality is outstanding! Despite the challenges that we all faced with the 2010 growing season, the…
Le Vieux Pin News
Planting is underway, the fruit tree blossoms are out, the birds are singing! We can all feel it, spring is in the air so it’s time to announce our spring release wines! To top it off the press and critics have been working overdrive discussing our new releases and we are pleased to share few…
KETTLE VALLEY’S 20th YEAR ANNIVERSARY
This year we are proud to be celebratingtwenty years of family winemaking on the Naramata Bench. We planted vines here in1987 and harvested our first grapes in 1992, making this year’s 2011harvest our 20thvintage. While many things have changed here at thewinery, which are evident from the early pictures, much has stayedthe same. We remaincommitted…
Le Clos Du Soleil Spring Newsletter.
The winter has flown by and we’ve been busy both at the vineyard with the harvest and winemaking and around town with tastings and dinners. Congratulations are in order to Felix, our resident vineyard manager, who picked up a number of scholarships for his wine making and viticulture studies. We’re also proud to have become…
Haywire Winery
Haywire Winery is the well tended wine project brought to us from marketing consultant Christine Coletta her husband, Steve Lornie, a well-known construction manager. David Scholefield is the winery’s consultant and, as anyone in the BC wine industry knows, he comes with a bank full of applicable knowledge and industry connections. On the winemaking side,…
KETTLE VALLEY WINERY 2011 Celebrating 20 years
#BCWine – News from Kettle Valley Winery Thursday, February 24, 2011 – Pinot Noir Dinner at Camille’s in Victoria with Kettle Valley & Alderlea Winery’s Saturday, February 26, 2011 – Dinner Concert Series 1-866-SKI-KICK www.kickinghorseresort.com February 17 through March 10, 2011 – Kettle Valley “Dine Around” www.camillesrestaurant.com Saturday, March 26, 2011 – “A Whale of…
Stag’s Hollow Winery Celebrates 15th Year with First-of-Its Kind “Cachet™ Series”
#BCWINE Limited Edition Wines Highlight Pioneering British Columbia Winery’s Dedication to Quality and Innovation Marking its 15th anniversary as one of British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley pioneering wine producers, Stag’s Hollow Winery stagshollowwinery.com today unveiled the first two wines in the limited edition Cachet series of uniquely blended wines. The Cachet series continues Stag’s Hollow’s tradition…
News from Joie
We created the 2008 PTG, our sole red wine, and 2008 Reserve Chardonnay for the richer, heartier foods that we enjoy at this time of the year. Both wines have been extremely well received by the critics and we are proud to share the outstanding reviews with you. Please note that both are still available…
Pentage Winery
The long Spring and cooler Fall temperatures made this a challenging year for growing grapes. With proper fruit management and crop thinning at just the right time—we were delighted with the quality of our fruit. The grapes from our Dirty Dozen vineyard have produced some incredible wines this year, including; a white Rhone Blend, Petit…
Road 13 Vineyards Welcomes New Winemaker
J-M Bouchard joins Road 13 team Road 13 Vineyards is excited to announce the arrival of their new winemaker, J-M (Jean-Martin) Bouchard to their Oliver vineyards. Originally from Montreal, Quebec, Bouchard has wine experience achieved in three wine continents. For more information about Road 13 Vineyards, visit www.road13vineyards.com. As winemaker Michael Bartier transitions to a…
Vista D’Oro – News from the farm….
As usual, time has flown by and the holiday season is already upon us. The unusual cold and snowy weather is a sure reminder of what we’ve got to look forward to over the next few months. Coldest winter in 50 years?? I sure hope they have that forecast wrong! We have a few upcoming events…
