All right, wine friends, it’s happening: green life is sprouting from the ground and reaching skyward all over the Okanagan. We’ve all had well over 2 weeks now to complain about ‘the debilitating effects of adjusting to Daylight Savings Time’, and soon that one friend or...
Aren't we all just a cat, wrapped up in brown paper, waiting to swipe at the next thing that wanders by, asking them to love us? (Ok, total non sequitur. But the cat image made me laugh. On with the Wine Blog post! ) 2017 was...
There was a time, not so very long ago, when I would talk about Canadian wine with people and the first thing out of their mouths would be, “Oh, ya, right…Icewine!”. It was this at this early point in the conversations that I would clench...
It’s that time again; Easter Holidays are upon us. The weather is finally beginning to take a positive turn towards something resembling spring. Wine tours in Kelowna are picking up for the season. Flowers are starting to pop, and everything is lush and green. You’re...
Let’s just get this outta the way –Winter 2016/2017 in the Okanagan was a doozy. We ‘suffered’ through colder than average temperatures, more snow days, and higher heating bills. On the upside: this winter saw fewer gray days than normal, with plenty of sunshine to...