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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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Audra and Jason Shull were high school sweethearts that grew-up in Osoyoos, British Columbia. They both had careers in Vancouver, BC prior to purchasing Montakarm Estate Winery on the Black Sage Bench in 2019; Montakarm was a ten acre property that had been planted to vine in the early 2000’s. The Shulls named their winery…
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One of the things that I love about exploring wine, is learning about the people behind it. Recently I had the opportunity to taste Stoneboat’s Piano Brut while learning about Stoneboat’s proprietors, Julie and Lanny Martiniuk. Their story begins in Vancouver, where Julie worked as a pharmacist while her husband, Lanny, was working in nuclear…