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8th Generation Vineyard
Our home farm sits on a delta laid down by Trout Creek over thousands of years, on the Summerland lakefront. Before the dam went in, the creek flooded every spring, layering the delta with rich, fertile topsoil. You may call it a deglaciation’s parting gift. Underneath it all runs a high water table fed by Okanagan Lake, 350 metres away. In spring, when the lake runs high, our vines quite literally dip their roots into it. It would be a nice metaphor, but it is just hydrology. The lake gives us more than water. That great body of blue moderates everything: it stretches our frost-free season long into autumn, and in January 2024, when a savage cold snap damaged vineyards across the valley, we believe those few borrowed degrees from the water are why every one of our vines came through alive.
The vineyard: 7 acres, Summerland Lakefront. Pinot Noir, Syrah, Pinot Meunier and Riesling. Our Syrah block, planted in 2001, is one of the last remaining mature Syrah plantings in the Okanagan—old vines by this young valley’s standards, and it shows in the glass.
The orchard: 10 acres, right next door. Gala and Ambrosia apples on the same Trout Creek delta soil, 200 metres from the lake. For years the orchard was simply the neighbour. Since 2018 it’s been family… and since 2024 it’s been in the bottle, too.
Syrah grapes
The estate, looking north.
Irrigation line repair
Riesling grapes
8th Generation Vineyard from above.
Spring shoots
You’ll see that grape name a lot here, and you may never have heard it before. It’s the quiet third grape of Champagne, alongside Chardonnay and Pinot Noir—famous in blends, almost never given the spotlight. We grow it right here on the delta and bottle it proudly under its own name, as our Rosé, in our Blanc de Noir, and in our frizzante. Consider this your introduction to the best grape you didn’t know you liked.
Pinot Meunier grapes, late September
Over the years, the family has also farmed 11 acres in Okanagan Falls (2003–2021, where it all started) and 5 acres on the Naramata Bench (2011–2025). Each sits in a different sub-region of the valley. The Okanagan has eleven officially distinct ones, and each taught us something about what this valley can do. Today we’ve deliberately drawn the circle small—the home vineyard, the orchard, and long-standing handshakes with just three trusted BC growers for the fruit we don’t grow ourselves.
100% British Columbia. Always has been. Always will be.