Wine tasting in the Okanagan Valley region of BC Canada is a must do activity in the fall. This year Karen & I travelled with Bill and Sandra Owens, Wayne and Sandra Sinclair into the heart of wine country to enjoy several estate wines. It took us three days to cover parts of Bottle Neck Drive near Summerland, the estate wineries along the Naramata Bench close to Penticton, then south onto Eastside rd. along Skaha Lake. The wineries were super easy to find. Staff especially friendly this time of year. However we encountered only one hick up at Black Widow Winery. Their staff were not at their best. The wine server was unfriendly and not very helpful. Not recommended by us to go there again. Now we know why the Okanagan Valley is known as a true Travel Destination. Here is a list of the wineries that we visited, Dirty Laundry wines, Heaven's Gate Estate Winery, Sonora, Saxon Estate winery, Sumac Wines, Therapy Vineyards,Tinhorn Creek Vineyards, Blasted Church Winery, See Ya Later Vineyard, Jackson Triggs. All these wineries have the VQA designation and have interesting Wine Tasting rooms. Join us for our Okanagan Valley Wine Tasting Tour.
The Hatch Winery - West Kelowna
There’s little doubt winemaker Jason Parkes marches to the beat of his own drum but then so does the off-beat, tattooed, back-of-the-house Hatch team who don’t look anything like your typical assistant winemakers. From the day it opened, the west Kelowna winery has been the different one as they pursue a philosophy of diversity, authenticity and individuality that takes them up and down the Okanagan Valley in search of derelict vineyards and high quality fruit. At Hatch headquarters, we catch up with crew to talk about the obvious progress this idiosyncratic, hipster winery is making in an ultra-conservative business and find out what everyone is Yelp-ing about.
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