Lakeboat Launch Helps Put Kaleden on the Map

By |2022-06-25T10:03:22-07:00June 24th, 2022|Latest Posts, Wine|

Lakeboat Winery & Vineyard opens to the public on Canada Day. Lakeboat is the newest addition to a small but growing group of wineries nestled along the idyllic western shore of Skaha Lake. Kaleden is a delightful, historic, lakeside farming community tucked away off Hwy 97. Just north of the junction of Hwy 3A from [...]

R.I.P. George Heiss Snr., Okanagan Wine Pioneer 

By |2021-11-14T18:30:35-08:00July 1st, 2021|Latest Posts, Wine|

I am saddened by the loss of George Heiss Senior, who passed away on June 29th, from cancer.  Where to begin? For me the BC industry has never been quite the same since George and Trudy Heiss (deservedly) retired after selling Gray Monk Cellars to Andrew Peller, in 2017.  A Big Hearted Legend Three things [...]

Wine in Cans: In BC, Small is Big

By |2023-09-12T13:25:23-07:00May 27th, 2021|Latest Posts, Wine|

Wine in cans? It’s really nothing new. I encountered my first at a California Wine Fair, back in 2004. The novelty was Sofia from Francis Ford Coppola—a sparkling rosé named for Coppola’s daughter. It came in a cleverly conceived, hexagonal four pack. It did all seem very ‘Hollywood’ at the [...]

6 Proper Drops to Amuse (Even) Queen Victoria

By |2023-08-03T14:21:29-07:00May 24th, 2021|Latest Posts, Spirits, Wine|

Victoria Day … Growing up in the United Kingdom (are we still allowed to call it that?) I never really understood why ‘stat’ holidays were called ‘Bank’ holidays. Other than the banks (with their already ludicrous ‘bankers’ hours’) were closed all day. Not to say that Victoria Day makes any [...]

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