The 2025 Vancouver International Wine Festival was a signal opportunity to sample a gallery of pinot noirs from the New World part of the pinot noir spectrum. A good portion of the pinot noir's flavour spectrum and its responsiveness to terroir
In our ongoing series on British Columbian pinot noir, Kelowna is the focus this month, and its two sub-gis, both located on the eastern side of Okanagan Lake, East Kelowna Slopes and South Kelowna Slopes. Separated from the Southwest corner of East
The East Kelowna Slopes is the larger of the two Kelowna sub-GIs. A kidney-shaped area of about 2500 hectares, it lies directly South of the city of Kelowna (pop. 150,00) and encompasses the slopes and benches overlooking Mission Creek. It is essentially
The latest region in our ongoing series on British Columbian pinot noir, is Summerland, which was awarded three sub-GIs. We have so far covered Summerland Lakefront, Summerland Bench, and today we focus on Summerland Valleys. Summerland Valleys
In our ongoing series on British Columbian pinot noir, Summerland is the focus this month. The area was split into three sub-GIs, so we looked at each sub-region in detail: Summerland Lakefront, Summerland Valleys, and Summerland Bench, the latter being today's
The community of Summerland is next to Highway 97 on the Eastern side of Lake Okanagan, directly across from the town of Naramata and its adjacent necklace of wineries. In 2019, the Bottleneck Drive Association, a collection of wineries, cideries, distilleries,
British Columbia wine regions are currently broken up into nine Geographical Indications similar to appellations used in other countries. These G.I.s are determined by analyzing similar soils, climate, annual weather, etc. The Okanagan Valley G.I. is
Pinot noir's evolution continues in the province. The wines from a greater variety of regions and terroirs show more refinement and focus. With each vintage, the tide of quality is lapping higher and higher.A range of intermingled factors are at work
British Columbia’s Vancouver Island is a geologically complex isle, a little bigger than Sicily, half-tucked into a Pacific Northwest pocket on the west side of North America. Tectonically, it is surrounded by the active boundaries of three tectonic
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