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Fort Berens Estate Winery

Is there a place that you would love to live, far away from your current life as you know it? For me, that place is the countryside in the United Kingdom. The logistics of it though – leaving family and friends, finding a new job, getting a visa, the selling and buying of property, heck,…

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Fort Berens Estate Winery: From Gold to Wine

In 1858, during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, the Hudson’s Bay Company made plans to build a post across the Fraser River from the town of Lillooet, British Columbia. This post would act as a supply outlet for the influx of people who were flocking to the area, and the post was to be called…

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