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I have been telling all my readers about the quality of wines coming from Kamloops. The 2020 All Canadian Wine Championships just announced their winners, and Kamloops wineries have brought in more medals. Here is the press release from the Kamloops Winery Association. If you check through my latest articles, you will find many of these wines with my reviews…
Monte Creek Ranch Winery, located just east of Kamloops, is one of our emerging regions wineries. They have put out a few vintages already. The 2016 vintage started with their earliest bud-break yet and a warm spring. A rainy June and July slowed the growth of the grapes, but still harvest began early. Two weeks early, on August 22. The…
The 2015 vintage was the hottest in years in BC, and recorded the earliest grape harvest of all time. The heat helped fully ripen the grapes, and produce full-bodied, ripe red wines in the Okanagan, and also the Kamloops region, where we find Monte Creek Ranch. The winery is still relatively new, with their vineyards planted in 2009. Learning about…
