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Here are more great wines for the festive season, or any season really! 2024 Broad Daylight $25.99 Broad Daylight is a blend of 69% Pinot Gris, 14% Muscat, 11% Viognier and 6% Arneis. The grapes were hand harvested from the Home Vineyard and the Moon Curser Vineyard on the Osoyoos East Bench, as well as…
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What’s better than great wine? Great wine on sale! Blasted Church is making it easy for wine lovers to stock-up for the festive season with their big holiday sale, on now through December 14th. The sale applies to all Renaissance Series wines. Here are the sale details: There are savings in numbers, so get your…
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Did you know that at this time last year Moon Curser Vineyards was sold to new owners? You may recall that Chris and Beata Tolley opened a winery in 2004. The land they purchased was an old orchard and the winery was named Twisted Tree after the old, gnarly cherry trees that used to grow…
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There is no doubt that the winters of 2023 and 2024 were particularly challenging for wineries in British Columbia, with the winter of 2024 being the most devastating. Fort Berens, located in Lillooet, BC, unfortunately did not escape these winters unscathed. In January 2024, following what began as a relatively warm winter, a cold snap…
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Aasha Wines is a winery that almost didn’t happen. Gaurav Puri is the head of emergency medicine at a hospital in Toronto. He was introduced to wine while he was doing his residency, but his passion really developed whilst traveling and tasting his way through different wine regions around the world. This passion eventually inspired…
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Red Barn Winery belongs to the Iconic Wineries of British Columbia (IWBC) portfolio, which includes wineries like CheckMate, Martin’s Lane and Mission Hill. Red Barn Winery produces small lots of unique wines, making only about 1000 cases each year. What really distinguishes Red Barn from the rest of the IWBC portfolio though is their free…
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As you might already be aware, the Okanagan Valley has faced two devastating winters back-to-back, and these severe cold snaps have wreaked havoc in the vineyards. A lot of vines sustained damage, some irreversible, and wineries have had to make very tough decisions about how they will move ahead. Solvero Wines, located in Garnet Valley,…
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Any time is the right time for some bubbly and, with Autumn just days away, I am toasting the last days of summer with this trio of sparkling wines from Noble Ridge. 2019 “The Pink One” Sparkling $34.99 Made from 100% Pinot Noir, this wine had four hours of skin contact in order to achieve…
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Did you know that there are three Rosé Day celebrations during the year? The first Rosé Day seems to have been established in 2005 by the good folks behind the blog Winegeek. They picked August 14th as the day to celebrate, as it is halfway to Valentine’s Day. Next, National Rosé Day was officially registered in 2014…
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Last March, Road 13 Vineyards introduced a new line of premium wines, called the John Oliver Collection, honouring BC’s 19th premier, John Oliver. John Oliver was born in England in 1856 and he immigrated to Ontario with his family in 1870. Seven years later the Oliver family moved to a farm in Delta, BC, where…