Taking a last-minute trip to Kamloops before summer holidays was a great idea. Over two days you can very pleasantly visit the four wineries that are in the area, plus do some sightseeing and enjoy a few meals at the…
The Monte Creek Ranch Winery is located just east of Kamloops in the new GI of the Thompson Valley. A region with cold winters, requires hardy grapes. Monte Creek Ranch has a variety of red and white hybrid grapes that…
BC’s emerging wine regions is rather large and encompasses different climates and terroir. From my tour to the region, the places that I visited I think can be divided into two sub-regions: the hot west, and the cooler northeast. There…
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…
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,…
New BC wineries appear quite regularly. Some I hear about before hand, while others take me by surprise. Monte Creek Ranch is one of the wineries that falls in the latter category, plus they are in the Kamloops area, which…