The stunning winery at Phantom Creek.
Phantom Creek Estates is the latest name to be added to the growing list of ultra-premium wine purveyors in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley. We spent an afternoon touring the amazing facility with their CEO and then tasting with their winemaker. It was a great opportunity to get an inside look at this year’s most talked about winery in the Okanagan.
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The 100 point Little Pawn Chardonnay.
Just a few years into its relatively short life, CheckMate Artisanal Winery in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley was the first Canadian winery to earn perfect 100-point scores in back to back vintages for one of its Chardonnays. How do they meet the immense expectations from critics and wine consumers as a result? Like any good chess player, it starts with a plan to ensure your always thinking a few steps ahead.
Read MoreOur latest Video AdVINEture features our very own ‘backyard’, British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley. We met with some old favourites like Meyer Family Vineyards, Painted Rock Estate Winery, and Okanagan Crush Pad, as well as two discoveries which have quickly become new favourites: Little Engine Wines and Kismet Winery. This is just a sneak peek of our recent trip, click on the individual links for the full story on each. Cheers!
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The stunning property at Kismet.
Regular readers of this blog will know that our focus is on interviewing winemakers to tell you the back story of how their particular wine got into the glass. With Kismet we broke with tradition and interviewed the growers instead of the winemaker.
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JAK Meyer, Janice Stevens-Meyer (and Chris Hemsworth)
There’s a saying in the wine industry among winemakers that ‘it takes a lot of beer to make good wine’. In JAK Meyer’s case, it took a few beers with a good friend to convince him to establish his own winery. A decade and a half later, Meyer Family Vineyards continues to produce among the very best wine coming out of BC’s Okanagan Valley.
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