Forget Provence. With its cool climate wines and high quality local ingredients, British Columbia's Okanagan Valley is becoming a popular culinary destination. Many vintners are hiring winery chefs to promote their brands. This breed of chef
Without a doubt, fire-ravaged St. Hubertus Estate Winery is the Okanagan's most resilient winery. The Okanagan Mountain forest fire ripped through the property on August 22, destroying the winery and a 1932 house that was the home of Leo Gebert and wife
In its fourth winemaker change in a decade, Quails' Gate Estate Winery has lured a Canadian-born Pinot Noir specialist named Grant Stanley back from New Zealand to become its new winemaker. Stanley will take over the 2003 crush from Ashley Hooper, who
The Fairview Cellars winery, near Oliver, B.C., is right next to a challenging golf course. On the first hot Okanagan morning in May this year, several golfers stopped to buy wine on the way to the course. Bill Eggert talked them out of it! The reason
At the recent All-Canadian Wine Competition in Toronto, the wine of the year award went to Burrowing Owl's 2001 Syrah. The bad news is that only 648 cases were made and it is totally sold out. The good news is that the winery made twice as much Syrah
The Okanagan's most promising new winery might never have been built if Josef Zuppiger's sons had cared for dairy farming in northern Alberta. A loss for milk drinkers is a gain for the rest of us. On May 31, the Zuppiger family formally opens its Arrowleaf
You can add another new winery to your south Okanagan touring map. Nk'Mip (pronounced "inkameep") Cellars officially opened for business on September 14, 2002 and is North America's first aboriginal owned and operated winery. The winery is a joint venture
Just as Tinhorn Creek Vineyards has begun to release its 2000 vintage red wines, word has arrived that this Okanagan winery has its first reserve-level Merlot from the 2001 vintage maturing in barrels. About 1,000 cases of it will be released next year,
The British Columbia wine industry will be one of the great beneficiaries of the 2010 Winter Olympics, should the Vancouver-Whistler bid succeed. An early dividend came to several wineries whose products were chosen for the gala dinner that concluded
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