Greetings from Kelowna
Wine Capital of BC Sunday June 30th Tantalus Winery Kelowna is the wine growing capital of BC, so as well as taking in the scenery we have been checking out some of the local wineries. Be rude not to really. As we found travelling around France (and other bits of Europe), it is so much more informative to learn about a wine region as you actually taste the wines at the winery. We have been slowly developing our knowledge of the wines over the last few years (we first visited about six years ago). Not something that can be done easily in the UK as so little BC wine leaves Canada as the volumes are relatively small compared to major wine producing countries. The Good Wine Shop in Chiswick, does stock some. Not cheap due to volumes and shipping costs. The Okanagan wine region stretches along the 111km of Lake Okanagan. The area is classified as a desert, defined by the low rainfall, though it happens to be chucking it down as I write this. The wines tend to be the lighter Sauvi