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Blue Mountain Vineyard, located on the shore of Vaseux Lake in Okanagan Falls, British Columbia is a Canadian Winery. Situated near the bottom of British Columbia's Okanagan Valley, Blue Mountain produces over 12,000 cases of wine per year. Blue Mountain's tasting room is open by appointment only.
Fort Berens Winery, aka Fort Berens Estate Winery, is a winery and vineyard based in Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada.Located in East Lillooet, near the site of the never-built Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Berens, it is the first successful attempt at a commercial winery in the area in the 20th Century and has won numerous awards for its wines.
The Okanagan Valley wine region, located within the region of the same name in the British Columbia Interior, is Canada's second-largest wine producing area. [1] Along with the nearby Similkameen Valley, the approximately 8,619 acres (3,488 hectares) of vineyards planted in the Okanagan (2018 data) account for more than 80% of all wine produced in British Columbia, [2] and are second in ...
In 2002, Proprietors Evelyn & Chris Campbell bought the 2 year old 17-hectare Prpich Hills Winery on the road between Okanagan Falls and Penticton. The winery is named after a local story. In 1929, a church was dismantled in Fairview, via a controlled dynamite explosion which loosened the nails, and reassembled in the center of Okanagan Falls ...
The winery building won the Lieutenant Governor Award in Architecture, [7] making it the only winery in Western Canada to receive this award. [4] In 2007, Glenn Fawcett formed a group of 350 investors, the Vinequest Wine Partners GP Ltd., [8] including Canadian actor Jason Priestley [9] to purchase Black Hills Estate Winery for $11.3 million. [10]
Mission Hill Winery buildings and bell tower. Mission Hill Winery was established in 1966; years later, Anthony von Mandl would create the Mission Hill Family designation. [1] von Mandl was a wine seller in Vancouver during the 1970s and assisted in preparing a feasibility study regarding growing grapes in the area for Josef Milz, a Mosel based ...
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Although Canada has a reputation for having a cold climate, much of the British Columbia Interior has a mild or dry climate which is ideal for growing grapes. Within the Interior, the Okanagan Valley in particular is known for both the high quality of its wines, and for its increasing number of respected wineries, smaller pockets such as the Creston Valley have been emerging of late, with very ...