{"id":98,"date":"2005-09-23T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2005-09-23T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=98"},"modified":"2005-12-04T08:50:11","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T15:50:11","slug":"okanagan-wineries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2005\/09\/okanagan-wineries\/","title":{"rendered":"Okanagan Wineries"},"content":{"rendered":"

We went up to the Okanagan wine dis\u00adtrict for the Canada Day week\u00adend this year, and I think it\u2019s about time I wrote down some of my impres\u00adsions of the vine\u00adyards and the wine. We took my friend Sally (she of G&<\/span>T fame<\/a> who knows a lot about wine), and had a great time. Tim mostly enter\u00adtained the off\u00adspring while Sally and I tasted the wine, which seemed like a good divi\u00adsion of labour to all of us. I typ\u00adic\u00adally like wines with body and heft, such as shiraz, much of the caber\u00adnet fam\u00adily, and rieslings; my impres\u00adsions of oth\u00ader wines depend on what they evoke (sit\u00adting on the deck in sum\u00admer, or some food pair\u00ading). So here are some notes about the winer\u00adies and the wines, none of them are any\u00adthing sci\u00adentif\u00adic or indeed any\u00adthing oth\u00ader than my impres\u00adsion of that day!<\/p>\n

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Hawthorne Moun\u00adtain Vineyards<\/a><\/dt>\n
Great view, but a very com\u00admer\u00adcial vine\u00adyard with lots of schnick-schnack to buy. I\u2019d bought some caber\u00adnet franc here in 1995\u20136 which was great after a few years cel\u00adlar\u00ading, but the 2003 Caber\u00adnet Franc they had on offer this year was too light and did\u00adn\u2019t give me any con\u00adfid\u00adence it would devel\u00adop the way I like. The pinot gris was good so I got some of that. The gew\u00fcrztram\u00adiner was ok though we\u2019d had bet\u00adter at oth\u00ader winer\u00adies, so that did\u00adn\u2019t go home with us, and although I thought the See-ya-later pinot noir could devel\u00adop, I did\u00adn\u2019t feel like tak\u00ading the risk.<\/dd>\n
Wild Goose Vine\u00adyards &<\/span> Winery<\/a><\/dt>\n
Very friendly people, good whites (some have won prizes) though not what I\u2019d call earth-shat\u00adter\u00adingly great. I bought a mixed case of whites, includ\u00ading the 2004 Riesling, 2003 Stony Slope Riesling, and the 2004 Gew\u00fcrztraminer.<\/dd>\n
Stag\u2019s Hol\u00adlow Winery<\/a><\/dt>\n
Unfriendly serv\u00ader but a good vid\u00adal (2004 Tra\u00adgic\u00adally Vid\u00adal), which is an unusu\u00adal grape, and the 2002 Renais\u00adsance Mer\u00adlot struck me as worth tak\u00ading home, so I bought a couple of bottles for the cel\u00adlar. It should be really good in a couple of years.<\/dd>\n
Hainle Vine\u00adyards Estate Winery<\/a><\/dt>\n
Nice people, organ\u00adic wines; they\u2019ve learned a lot about mak\u00ading organ\u00adic wines pal\u00adat\u00adable since I last vis\u00adited in 1996 or so. Good bis\u00adtro for lunch out\u00adside on the deck as well. The 2002 Hainle Chardon\u00adnay, 2002 Hainle Pinot Blanc, 2002 Deep Creek Pinot Meuni\u00ader (nice rich taste, like the Hawthorne Moun\u00adtain one from 1995 or so), and 2003 Deep Creek Z2<\/span> were all good, the 2003 Hainle Syrah ok. Bought a mixed bunch to cel\u00adlar, mostly the Pinot Meuni\u00ader and Chardon\u00adnay as they\u2019re in short sup\u00adply and I figured I prob\u00adably could\u00adn\u2019t find them in Vancouver. <\/dd>\n
Arrowleaf<\/a><\/dt>\n
New winery and quite far north. Friendly people. Bought a couple of bottles of 2002 Zei\u00adgelt for the cel\u00adlar, and some 2004 Bac\u00adchus (nice light grape) and 2004 Gew\u00fcrztram\u00adiner for drinking. <\/dd>\n
St Hubertus Estate Winery<\/a><\/dt>\n
Much of the winery was des\u00adtroyed in the big fire of 2003, but they\u2019ve rebuilt with a big\u00adger tast\u00ading room. The rub\u00adber stamps are now in the tast\u00ading room rather than in a sep\u00adar\u00adate build\u00ading; they add a touch of eclecticism to the place. Decent selec\u00adtion of wines. We picked the 2004 Dry Riesling to take home (with Tim warn\u00ading by this stage that we did\u00adn\u2019t have much room left in the car!)<\/dd>\n
Raven Ridge Cidery<\/a><\/dt>\n
Not quite a winery, this one, but a cidery con\u00adnec\u00adted to an orch\u00adard with a good res\u00adtaur\u00adant. I picked up their last two bottles of Spark\u00adling Cider as well as a bottle of Brae\u00adburn iced cider (like ice wine, but tastes of apples), just for a change. <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Tour\u00ading Okanagan winer\u00adies is an excel\u00adlent exper\u00adi\u00adence, and hav\u00ading the kid around meant we also tried out some of the oth\u00ader tour\u00adist things rather than just sit\u00adting in the car. So although we did\u00adn\u2019t see as many winer\u00adies as the 1996 trip, we still filled the car and have wine enough to last us for quite a while!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We went up to the Okanagan wine dis\u00adtrict for the Canada Day week\u00adend this year, and I think it\u2019s about time I wrote down some of my impres\u00adsions of the vine\u00adyards and the wine. We took my friend Sally (she of G&<\/span>T fame who knows a lot about wine), and had a great time. Tim \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cOkanagan Wineries\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}