Got this article from my AAA newsletterl about how the Okanagan is the up and coming Napa. I love the Okanagan! My granparents in Smithers used to go most every fruit picking season to get fruit for canning. Sounds like I may need to make a trip one of these days! Maybe I'll see Ogopogo this time....
The Burrowing Owl Winery overlooks a landscape straight out of Stagecoach, complete with pinto ponies, timber corrals, and sagebrush-dotted hills. But this is no Hollywood back lot. There are scorpions here, and long-legged burrowing owls, which nest in abandoned badger holes. A few years ago, black bears, perhaps sniffing for blueberries, ate seven tons of Burrowing Owl's chardonnay crop. In fact, the winery's award-winning merlot does taste faintly of blueberries.Bears? Blueberries?
Welcome to wine country, Canadian style.
If you think Canada is too cold and wet to produce terrific wine, you're right—sort of. But 100 miles east of Vancouver, far from the city's cool, cosmopolitan trappings, sits the Okanagan, an arid stretch of landscape that appears somewhat out of place north of the border. Through this warm and lovely valley runs a long, deep lake purportedly inhabited by a serpentine monster called Ogopogo. Families from Vancouver and Calgary have been coming here for countless summers to golf, pick fruit, and float around the lake in inflatable rubber Ogopogos.
The rest of the article is here.
Posted by Ith at February 19, 2003 6:01 PM