Author: Yvonne Turgeon

I’m transfixed as the chrome-wrapped tanks capture the sunshine streaming through the winery’s windows, creating an iridescence rainbow of purples and blues. The intoxication of the colours continues as I glance down at the Rosé wine in my glass, a soft hue of peachy pink.

Haywire Winery | Quails’Gate Winery
The unique shape of the concrete egg allows the wine to tumble back down, essentially stirring itself. This constant motion increases the contact with the lees, the spent yeast cells. The result is a wine with increased fullness and texture.

Magic happens the next moment as the blue-hued Okanagan Spirits Evolve Gin is poured into the glass. A garden in a glass, and like all gardens holding its own secrets.

Look what on this label. BC has been busy making new wine maps

Celebrities back Bordeaux-inspired blend  I enter the tasting room, and my eye goes to the...

Inniskillin winemaker Derek Kontkanen believes “all great winemaking boils down to where and how you grow your grapes.”

The days are getting longer, but the winter frolicking continues, thanks to #Okanagan Wine Festivals. #bcwine @okwinefest @districtwinevillage

Rows of dark bottles lie atop each other, lining the walls in the cellar of Fitzpatrick Family Vineyards near Peachland.