• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Food & Wine Trails Magazine

BC's most thorough wine touring guide

  • Columns
    • Grape Expectations
    • Editor’s Note
    • Naramata Blend
    • Confessions from the Vineyard
  • Features
  • Events
    • Submit an Event
  • Winery Regions
    • Creston
    • Kaleden
    • Kamloops
    • Kelowna
    • Lake Country
    • Lower Mainland
    • Naramata
    • Okanagan Falls
    • Okanagan North
    • Oliver
    • Osoyoos
    • Penticton
    • Similkameen
    • Summerland
    • Vancouver Island
    • West Kelowna
  • Maps
    • Thompson Okanagan/Similkameen
  • Recipes
  • Editions
  • Media Kit
  • Advertise
  • About Us
    • Subscribe
  • Show Search
Hide Search

It pays to be a member of the Meyer Family Vineyards wine club

Jennifer Smith · September 4, 2014 ·

(pictured:MFV’s tasting room hostesses, Monica Horning (L) and Jeanna Campbell.)

Only club members are privy to a tasting of the winery’s inaugural Riesling, a single-vineyard release sourced from a Naramata Bench vineyard.

Riesling is a step outside the box for MFV. After just eight years in operation, owners JAK Meyer and his wife, Janice Stevens-Meyer, are building a strong reputation for working with the chief varietals of Burgundy—Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.


“What we really focus on trying to showcase is the difference in terroir,” said Monica Horning, wine club and event coordinator.
The philosophy is paying dividends. The 2011 McLean Creek Chardonnay won a Platinum Medal at the 2013 National Wine Awards and was named best Chardonnay in Canada. The 2012 McLean Creek Chardonnay is consistently scoring well with wine critics like The Globe and Mail’s Beppi Crosariol, who awarded it a 92-point score and offered a luscious description of a wine “soft and seductive, with come-hither tropical fruit followed by buttered popcorn and toasty, doughy bread.”


Praise like this draws wine club members nationwide, so some releases will be members only as the small lot focus limits stock. There are only 144 cases of the Riesling and 113 of the Steven’s Block Chardonnay.


“The Steven’s Block Chardonnay is very special to JAK and Janice as it’s the first vintage from this Naramata block,” said Horning.
In 2006, the couple purchased three acres of Chardonnay at Old Main Road Vineyard on the Naramata Bench and planted one more acre calling it “Stevens Block” after Janice’s family name. Based on a picturesque vineyard in the hills of Okanagan Falls on McLean Creek Road, MFV names its wines by location to accentuate the focus on terroir.


Winemaker Chris Carson, who trained in New Zealand and follows the traditional process of Burgundy vintners, builds each varietal with precision so the soils, microclimates and topography of the blocks shine through.


Thus, the Reimer Vineyard Pinot Noir, sourced from East Kelowna, displays a deep purple hue with sharp notes on a full bouquet of fruit whereas the McLean Creek Pinot Noir is a complex wine with an earthy minerality, though the winemaking process is the same.
Altogether, MFV racks four Pinot Noirs and five Chardonnays, a newly released Rosé, Gewürztraminer and Riesling.


The Rosé is 85% Merlot, 15% Gewürztraminer, and only on the skins for four days for a soft coral glow. Stop in for a taste or join the wine club at www.mfvwines.com.


~ Jennifer Smith

Comments

comments

Filed Under: Okanagan Falls Tagged With: meyer vineyards ok falls

Reader Interactions

Primary Sidebar

Recent Posts

  • Celebrate every day of the week at Black Hills Estate Winery
  • Recipe: White Bean Sumac Spread
  • Recipe: Sunflower Seed Romesco
  • On the Cover
  • From the Editor

Categories

  • About
  • Armstrong
  • Armstrong Salmon Arm
  • BC
  • Blog
  • Columns
  • Confessions from the Vineyard
  • Creston
  • e-Edition
  • Eat, Drink, Tweet
  • Editor's Note
  • Events
  • Features
  • Gulf Islands
  • Kaleden
  • Kamloops
  • Kelowna
  • Lake Country
  • Lower Mainland
  • Maps
  • Naramata
  • Naramata Blend
  • News
  • Okanagan Falls
  • Okanagan North
  • Oliver
  • On The Cover
  • Osoyoos
  • Peachland
  • Penticton
  • Recipes
  • Salmon Arm
  • Shuswap
  • Similkameen
  • Summerland
  • Tappen
  • Tappen
  • Uncategorized
  • Vancouver
  • Vancouver Island
  • Vernon
  • West Kelowna
  • Wine Regions

B.C. Food & Wine Trails Magazine

B.C.'s most comprehensive winery guide. Meet the people behind the labels as well as the great chefs in the Okanagan and keep up to date with their seasonal news. Event listings and photos will allow you to celebrate with us in wine country style!


BC Food & Wine Trails Magazine
2495 Enterprise Way
Kelowna, BC V1X 7K2
ph: 250.492.3636
email: ads@winetrails.ca

Footer

Winery Regions

  • Creston
  • Kaleden
  • Kelowna
  • Naramata
  • Okanagan Falls
  • Okanagan North

 

  • Oliver
  • Penticton
  • Similkameen
  • Summerland
  • Vancouver Island
  • West Kelowna

Advertise with Us

Food & Wine Trails Magazine is BC’s most thorough wine touring guide, winery source and portal into life inside BC wine country. Food & Wine Trails introduces YOU and YOUR business to a huge range of readers - from destination tourists, wine lovers and buyers to a local reader base interested in keeping up with the latest and greatest seasonal news from wine country. Our purpose and focus is to direct customers TO your door. Let us tell your story. Learn more...

Copyright © 2023 · Daily Dish Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in