Breaking News: Naramata-based Laughing Stock Vineyards cashes out at the top of the market selling to Arterra Wines Canada. It’s the fourth winery sold to an Ontario company this year and joins a large group of wineries and wine enterprises owned
Hillside made a brilliant tactical decision to focus on Naramata fruit about seven or eight years ago, long before anyone in the Okanagan was seriously talking about sub-regions. Winemaker Kathy Malone proposed the idea after experiencing the commonality
We are back for a few days and working hard on a big December lineup. I have one last trip to France in December but in the meantime we will be publishing a wide array of new tasting notes, two features on global sparkling wines, (December 4) and Champagne
Doug and Dawn Reimer turned their love of wine and food into a reality that many dream of, but seldom ever attain. After patiently tending their cool-climate vineyard in East Kelowna and watching the grapes they sold win praise at home and abroad (formerly
More big news out the Okanagan Valley with word that Phantom Creek has acquired 63-acres (25.49 hectares) of vineyard on the Golden Mile Bench in British Columbia’s south Okanagan Valley. The vineyard, established in 2004 by Chris and Betty Jentsch,
The 20 kilometer-long Naramata Bench begins at Penticton, British Columbia, and runs north along the east side bluffs above Okanagan Lake. The narrow strip of precious vineland sits in the center of B.C.'s largest wine region, the Okanagan Valley. The
Anthony is in Barcelona and the Duoro Valley this week and Treve is in Chablis, after a week in Lisbon. We'll still be posting new tasting notes and stories while we're away. If you haven't visited us in a while, please have a look at our latest videos
Italian Wine Scholar Unit 1, Northern Italy at Victoria and Vancouver, Two Cities, Same Dates. The most advanced and comprehensive program specializing in Italy, the #1 wine exporting and producing country in the world. As with French Wine Scholar,
The recent wildfires in California and the staggering damage inflicted on life and property, which happened with such speed, gave many of us in British Columbia pause even after experiencing our own record season of flames that burned 900,000 hectares
There’s little doubt winemaker Jason Parkes marches to the beat of his own drum but then so does the off-beat, tattooed, back-of-the-house Hatch team who don’t look anything like your typical assistant winemakers. From the day it opened, the
Hello Fall. The third in our latest series of fall videos is out this week featuring the quirky team at the Hatch. The West Kelowna winery joins Phantom Creek and Similkameen-based Clos du Soleil while we work on our next video featuring Naramata’s
The Penticton Lakeside Resort is our preferred hotel when staying in the central Okanagan. It's located at the southern tip of Okanagan Lake within walking distance to Penticton city restaurants and the formidable Saturday morning Penticton Farmer's Market.
I enjoyed Vancouver lawyer, Al Hudec's Facebook post (pasted below) on the recent sale of Tinhorn Creek, Black Hills and Gray Monk three well known, and for many consumers, beloved BC wineries. Here are some of my thoughts. First, if your exit strategy
There’s a three-pronged fork in the road just past the town of Hope, about an hour and half east of Vancouver, where knowing wine lovers lean right to travel the historic Crowsnest Highway. As the road winds its way upward, and farther east, toward
Labour Day marks the start of the real New Year for most of us with back to school top of mind. We will be shifting our mindset over the next few weeks upping our red wine coverage but look for an in-depth feature on Trocken and Kabinett labeled German
The final days of summer are upon us, so we're ordering a pizza and getting outside to soak up as much sun as possible. Which is why we're releasing our Top Ten Pizza Picks this week. Whether you're outside like us or getting ready to get back
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