Wine Me Up!

 So by now all of my readers know that one of our hobbies is WINE. To be more specific, visiting wineries. This part of the world has over 100 wineries!!! Too much to taste, not enough time. Kirk has to stay sober for driving and check- in but I can just have a good time. Each winery here in the Okanangan Valley is more lovely than the last and it is hard to pick our favorites but here goes: Above is Summerhill Winery which is famous for sparkling wine - such fun - and of course it's stunning view of the lake.

                                           

My absolute favorite winery has to be Dirty Laundry Winery. It is in a hundred year old "house of ill repute" now a winery, tasting room and bistro. The tasting room is decorated with vintage "unmentionables" and the bistro looks right down on the tracks of the Kettle Valley Steam Locomotive. Of course after lunch we had to take train ride. Well, needless to say, Kirk enjoyed that more than I did!

Here I am at Arrowleaf Cellars. This winery had the nicest sommelier and the best pic-nic spot also some very nice Viogner which happens to be my favorite wine. We stopped here as part of a tour of some of the East Side wineries including the very popular Grey Monk Estate however we really prefer the smaller more intimate wineries like Arrowleaf and there are a lot of those in this area.

One of the best small wineries is Greata Ranch Estate Winery. It is actually the sister winery to the much bigger and not as appealing to us CedarCreek Estate Winery. The deck off the tasting room at Greata Ranch wins best view for sure. It hangs right out over Lake Okanagan with nothing between you and the lake but a great glass of "Peachland White" and lots of grape vines. STUNNING!

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