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My final winery visit was with Culmina Family Estate Winery located in Oliver, just around the corner from Road 13 Vineyards.  I had been planning on visiting this winery since it opened but have not yet had a chance.  I first heard of Culmina when I met Don Triggs in the summer of 2012.  He and his wife Elaine moved…

On my recent trip through the Okanagan, I stopped at 3 wineries.  The first one which I wrote about earlier was C.C. Jentsch Cellars.  The next day I stopped by a winery that is near to them, Road 13 Vineyards, located on Road 13 just south of Oliver, BC, where I met Mick Luckhurst who with his wife purchased the…

I try to make a trip to the Okanagan once a year as part of my summer vacation.  This year I decided to stop in Oliver as part of my trip and visit 3 different wineries, all in close proximity to each other.  The first winery visit on my list is C.C. Jentsch Cellars.  I have been impressed with their…

Creston, BC is probably not what you first think of when someone mentions a grape growing and wine-producing region in BC. But it is. And it has a long history of orchard fruit production.  I found this out on my recent trip to the interior.  I knew that the Baillie-Grohman Estate Winery is located in Creston, and I know they produce very good…

The people that work in the hospitality industry are there to help me and you, as well as all our guests to this province.  They are baristas, concierges, hotel staff, cooks, winery and brewery workers, waiters, bartenders and wine salespeople.  But just like me and you, they can get sick and need help to get them through their crisis. From the…

From BC’s winemakers, the consensus seems to be that 2017 was a more normal growing season compared to the two previous seasons.  Although there were horrible wildfires, the fires occurred in early summer, not later in the summer when veraison occurs.  Smoke seems to be more problematic for grapes at veraison.  The smoke earlier in the summer filtered the sunshine…

I have always been a fan of the National Geographic magazine; taking me away to the far reaches of the world, seeing sights that I may never see, allowing me to pour over maps showing the geography of the area.  A piece of National Geographic is coming to the Okanagan, to Liquidity Wines specifically, where the National Geographic Photo Ark…

2017 was an interesting vintage in the Okanagan in my opinion, with the cool, wet Spring, followed by the forest fires and smoke that started in June and went through most of the summer.  I was worried about smoke taint in the Okanagan, but fortunately, the grapes did not have any problems.  But the smoke did have an unexpected benefit…

Did you know that during the ice age, glaciers up to 3 km thick covered the Okanagan and carved out the valley we love?  The retreat of the glaciers left benches covered with fertile soil where many wineries grow their vines.  Okanagan Falls, between Penticton and Oliver, I think holds a sweet spot for growing grapes and making wine.  It has…

With Kinder Morgan considering their decision to continue with their oil pipeline to the Vancouver Lower Mainland to be made by May 31, 2018, the rhetoric between the Alberta and BC governments has ramped up.  In February, the Alberta government restricted the import of BC wines into Alberta.  Farm Friends, organized by several BC wineries in response to the boycott…