Congratulations to BC’s Platinum Wine Align Award Winners!
A selection of BC wines shone at this year’s WineAlign awards. Congratulations to Deep Roots Winery**, Church and State Wines, Road 13 Vineyards, CC Jentsch Vineyards, La Stella Wines, and Mission Hill Winery for their respective “platinum” category award winners. You can find the full list of award winners here. David Lawrason, co-head judge of the awards […]
Haywire’s bright, tasty Canyonview Vineyard Chardonnay
We’re fans of Okanagan Crush Pad here at Chez BCWineLover, and not only because of the wines. The 3-year old winery based in Summerland, BC is already a business success story and they’ve barely just begun. Proprietors Christine Coletta and her husband Steve Lornie have marketing and business smarts that has helped them shorten the […]
On the road to Fort Berens in Lillooet – BC’s emerging wine region
Stacey and I were invited on a bus excursion from downtown Vancouver to Lillooet, BC, as guests of the owners of Fort Berens Estate Winery, ostensibly to see their new facility up-close and attend their grand opening. What the all-day adventure became was a fantastic window on the challenges and opportunities wine-making provides to drive […]