From the Cellar with @Sam_WineTeacher

In addition to the weekly wine review and the various other, usually wine-related, articles I write for My Van City, I am going to include a new one that will appear from time to time.  I’m calling it, ‘From the Cellar’. It will be similar to the wine reviews, except that it will feature aged … Read more

Fort Berens announces Top 10 Small Wineries in Canada Award

We are incredibly honoured that Fort Berens Estate Winery was named in the list of “Top 10 Small Wineries in Canada”.

Discover Lillooet’s Fort Berens Winery

  Established in 2009, Fort Berens was the first winery to set down roots in Lillooet.  The alluvial benches of the Fraser River were deposited thousands of years ago.  The sagebrush-covered soils are made up of silt, sand, and gravel and this gives their wines a distinctive terroir that makes them a hit with so … Read more

Wednesday Wine Reviews with @Sam_WineTeacher

2020 Blanc de Blancs Sandhill Kelowna, BC $34.90 This is Sandhill’s first venture into sparkling wine production.  Sydney Valentino can be mighty proud of her debut traditional method bubble.  It has been a three-year project that was kept under wraps until its release.  The chardonnay grapes for this wine came from the Naramata Bench and … Read more