Tag: Black Sage Road

Domaine Artema Winery Chardonnay Village 2024 and Pinot Gris Village 2024 with wines in glasses

Domaine Artema Winery Village Chardonnay and Village Pinot Gris 2024PR SAMPLE 

 mywinepal  November 13, 2025

Have you heard of one of our newest BC wineries, Domaine Artema Winery?   The winery is located on Black Sage Road in Oliver, just down the road from Burrowing Owl. They opened their doors to the public earlier this year.  This winery notes that it specializes in Chardonnay and Gamay Noir wines.  Gamay Noir is the grape grown primarily in…

Black Hills Estate Winery Nota Bene 2014 label

A Bene Nota from Black Hills Estate Winery Nota Bene

 mywinepal  September 20, 2016

Black Hills Estate Winery on the Black Sage Road in the Okanagan is best known for their “Nota Bene” Bordeaux blend red wine.  When I was taking my WSET classes downtown many years ago, it was extremely difficult to get a bottle of Nota Bene.  It sold out very quickly upon release.  One class mate lucky had purchased a bottle a few…

Spierhead Winery and their Latest Red Wine Blends

 mywinepal  November 16, 2012

Recently I received two new red wines from Spierhead Winery; Vanguard 2010, and Pursuit 2010.  If you have not heard of Spierhead before, they are a relatively new winery, located in Kelowna, BC.  They were named BEST NEW WINERY at the  2012 B.C. Wine Awards. The first wines I tried from Spierhead was a Pinot Noir and a Riesling (Read my tasting notes…