Tag: Black Sage Bench

French Door Estate Winery

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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STONEBOAT Piano Brut

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…

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