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Recent Quail’s Gate releases.

Quails’ Gate Estate Winery represents one of the Okanagan Valley’s most influential agricultural success stories; one that began long before the region was known for wine. The Stewart family has farmed its stretch of West Kelowna for more than a century, beginning in 1908 when Irish horticulturist Richard Stewart Sr. established one of the valley’s leading nurseries.

His son Dick planted the first grapevines in 1961, setting the stage for the family’s transition from horticulture to viticulture. In 1989, Dick’s son Ben and his wife Ruth formally founded Quails’ Gate Winery, laying the foundation for what would become an enduring BC estate.

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