Summerland’s Bottleneck Drive Tasting Rooms Open for the Season

Summerland’s Bottleneck Drives 24 tasting rooms will open for the 2019 season on April 20, 21 and 22; and visitors will be the first to taste their newest releases of wine, cider, beer and spirits. Tasting rooms will be open the long weekend and will stay open until the end of October.

Chardonnay Blind Tasting hosted by BC Wine Appreciation Society

Ten BC chardonnay wines tasted blind (we didn’t know what they were).  We were told that they were all BC wines from the 2016 vintage and from different regions of BC.  And then the game was afoot.

Bells and Whistles Debuts New Daily Menus, Taps New Lineup of Local Craft Beer

Bells and Whistles is marking the arrival of spring by dropping a new menu of snacks, sandwiches and soft-serve sundaes as well as a refreshed core list of local craft beer on tap now available for lunch, dinner and weekend brunch at the Fraserhood hotspot.

The BC Wine Institute Launches WineBC2030 BC Wine Industry Long-Term Strategic Plan

Following another successful BC Wine Industry Insight Conference (March 12, 2019 at the Penticton Lakeside Resort, Penticton), the BC Wine Institute is pleased to announce the launch of the WineBC2030 long-term strategic plan.