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First snowfall of the winter. Good thing we finish

First snowfall of the winter. Good thing we finished getting the nets off yesterday!

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We're absolutely thrilled to announce that our 20

We're absolutely thrilled to announce that our 2020 Pendulum Pinot Noir just took home a GOLD medal at the Wine Align National Wine Awards! This competition featured over 2,000 wines from across Canada. This medal was particularly special since this wine was made from the first harvest of grapes we grew at our McMillan vineyard (as was our 2020 Rosé).

"Deeply coloured with a fragrant black raspberry and cherry nose and palate. Refined, rounded tannins with great depth and complexity. A long savoury dark berry finish." - 92 points Janet Dorozynski Dip WSET, Ph.D.

Several of our other wines also won awards at this competition - see the complete list below!

2020 "Pendulum" Pinot Noir - Gold
2019 "Tailwind" Pinot Gris - Bronze
2019 "Midnight" Sparkling Wine - Bronze
2020 "True Colours" Rose - Bronze

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Evening time means: 1. Opening a bottle of wine 2.

Evening time means:
1. Opening a bottle of wine
2. Joel makes dinner and Linda enjoys afore mentioned wine
3. Joel does punch downs on our Cabernet franc while Linda still enjoys said afore mentioned wine 😀

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Well this was a nice surprise in our mailbox today

Well this was a nice surprise in our mailbox today! I guess we should add ‘build an award shelf’ to our list of winter projects! We are incredibly humbled to have received this award and our doors are only just barely open.

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We couldn't be more excited to learn that our 2019

We couldn't be more excited to learn that our 2019 "Tailwind" Pinot Gris just earned a Platinum medal at the 2021 British Columbia Lieutenant Governor's Wine Awards! Our 2020 Rose "True Colours" (100% Pinot Noir) and 2019 Sparkling Wine "Midnight" were also extremely well received by the judging panel, each earning silver medals. As this was the first wine competition that we entered, it was a pretty overwhelming experience to see our wines perform so well.

The Lieutenant Governor's Wine Awards was held over three days in Kelowna in early September with 15 top industry professionals tasting in excess of 800 wines (we don't know how they do it). Only 20 Platinum medals were awarded. We also want to extend a huge congrats to Tantalus Vineyards #tantalusvineyards for winning top wine in BC with their 2018 Old Vines Riesling. If we're not taking home the top award, we're glad it was a Riesling that won.

This recognition wouldn't be possible without the awesome work by our winemaking teams in 2019 and 2020. We can't thank Dwight, Amber and Michael enough for their hard work, impeccable attention to detail and constant pursuit of quality.

I wish we could invite everyone over to taste our first release, but this will need to wait until Spring 2022. We do, however, now offer online sales and shipping. We can't wait to share these wines and others with you!

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We are getting near the end of harvest - just our

We are getting near the end of harvest - just our Cabernet Franc left. We have picked a lot of Pinot Noir in the past couple of weeks between our home and leased vineyard. We are grateful that Pinot is such a flexible grape, because this vintage we will be doing four wines from the same grape! Not only rose and red wine, we are also introducing a sparkling rose and a blanc de noir (white wine)!

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Do you remember back in June when we posted a pict

Do you remember back in June when we posted a picture of our 2nd year Riesling block? Well look at it now - some of the plants are over 10 ft tall!! Next year we start training the vines in preparation for our first harvest.

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More stomping! #ChainReactionWine #NaramataBench

More stomping!

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After our Pinot noir grapes 🍇 were destemmed an

After our Pinot noir grapes 🍇 were destemmed and crushed, they sat overnight in a bin to extract some of that beautiful ❤️️ pink color from the grape skins.

We then used “The Rocket” (which is like a giant sieve) with a hose inside to pump out some of the juice from the bottom of the bin and send it to a tank. We then had to somehow get the rest of the bin of pink grapey goodness into the press without spilling everywhere, so we used our handy dandy Macgyver plastic sheet to help guide the grapes into the press just like we did with the destemmer. No pics because it may have involved grape juice splashing on my face 😀

We are excited to watch the progress of our 2021 rose over the next few months. Our 2020 rose is dry but so fruity - think wild strawberries, rhubarb and blood orange. @baanzen really nailed it!

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This weekend has been all about rose! Here’s so

This weekend has been all about rose! Here’s some behind the scenes look at the processing. First we destem the grapes after being picked at our leased vineyard. It’s been a challenge this year to get our building completed and equipment in place in time for this early harvest. We are missing one piece of equipment that would make our lives easier: an elevator. No fear, where there is a will, there’s a way. In true Macgyver fashion, @thesugarwash engineered a solution using a flexible piece of plastic to get the grapes into the destemmer. Mission accomplished - the Pinot is destemmed and ready to sit on the skins overnight!

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We harvested our Pinot Gris today from our leased

We harvested our Pinot Gris today from our leased vineyard! Well it’s 99.9% Pinot Gris and a few random white grape plants 😀

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Grape stomp!. Time to (gently) stomp some grapes!

Grape stomp!. Time to (gently) stomp some grapes!

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Now entering the time of year when it can be dange

Now entering the time of year when it can be dangerous to pick up garbage lying around outside...
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It was a day of firsts. ONE: Our first harvest f

It was a day of firsts.

ONE: Our first harvest from our home vineyard!! Just a small crop of Chardonnay so as to not stress out our young vines. These babies have been baking in a great location at the rear of our property and with their high sugar levels, are begging for a bigger bolder expression than our 2019 Chardonnay.

TWO: Our first production at our new facility which we built this year!!

The hot temperatures this summer have resulted in an early harvest, which meant we have been scrambling the past 2 weeks to get everything in place. You could say that the 45 degree heat wave in late June caused a chain reaction of events 😆 We got ‘er done in the nick of time, and just maybe a few Macgyver’d solutions to get us through 😀

Can’t wait to taste this special vintage!!

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Oh Priya! Sorry, we are just a little too busy bo

Oh Priya! Sorry, we are just a little too busy bottling our 2020 Pinot Noir today to play with you!

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Seriously guys, is purple not the most bee-yoo-tee

Seriously guys, is purple not the most bee-yoo-tee-ful color ever???

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Growing up, I never thought I’d be a farmer. I t

Growing up, I never thought I’d be a farmer. I took a Computer Science programming course in Grade 11 and thus my career in technology was born.

I remember an instructor in BCIT saying that we would likely have 3-5 careers before we retired, and I was like no way! I mean we all grew up with parents who stayed in the same job their whole lives right?

Well here I am. Not in front of a computer but on a tractor. A nice sexy orange one at least.

To all the women out there - find a career that makes you happy. Don’t limit yourself to traditional female careers. You can do anything you want! The past couple days I’ve been driving the tractor while the boys walked behind me doing the hard work of putting up the nets. As it should be 🤪

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Spent yesterday getting the nets over the Pinot No

Spent yesterday getting the nets over the Pinot Noir in our home vineyard. These third year vines will have a small harvest this year and the birds have already been threatening to make that even smaller.

We haven’t been able to get the tractor down these rows all year due to construction of the septic and production wastewater lines. It is finally getting signed off so we were able to cover them with dirt!

And hey, look at our new production building in the back!

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Our model is shown wearing the latest in vineyard

Our model is shown wearing the latest in vineyard apparel perfect for current local conditions. Stylish yet functional, it comes in N95 White and features an eye catching silver metal accent that happens to coordinate well with grey T-shirts.

Working in the vineyard isn’t easy these days but the work still needs to get done. Lots of ash fell last night which makes for very dirty hands!

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Joel mowed the Riesling block today and it looks g

Joel mowed the Riesling block today and it looks great! No tractors in our high density block so all done with a regular residential mower!

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