• 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

Desert Hills Estate Winery: New Decade, New Direction

Admin · March 5, 2020 ·

By Amber Rae Bouchard 

2020 signifies a new decade for winemaking in the Okanagan, and the team at Desert Hills Estate Winery is already making decisive strides in a new direction. Passion and quality are the driving factors behind their latest vintage. Concentration on good growing practices and minimal intervention in the cellar are key to let the grapes shine through as the stars of the show. There is much to be excited about at Desert Hills, including their new creative series of non-conventional wines, Flora & Fauna. The series includes a Pinot Gris aged sur lie in concrete, a skin-contact Gewurztraminer and an ancestral-method sparkling wine.

The winery’s new vision begins by breaking down the barriers of convention and the stigmas of industry wine-snobbery that make wine seem inaccessible and intimidating for many. At Desert Hills you can expect to find a warm, welcoming approach that empowers you to find an appreciation for wine. All the while you’ll be learning in an open and accepting environment. The knowledgeable tasting room team is confident they can guide you to your next favourite when you stop by. It’s no wonder Desert Hills has been recognized as Canada’s No. 3 Small Winery by WineAlign.

Planning to drop by Desert Hills? Check out the revamped Black Sage Bistro this spring for an elevated dining experience prepared by Chef Andrew Kraeft of Toronto. Chef Kraeft is keen on exploring the gastronomic offerings of the valley in a new farm-to-table style menu. It brings together the big flavours of the city with the idyllic setting of a rustic vineyard viewed from newly completed gazebos. It’s the next step in the ever-evolving plans of this ambitious winery, a place this writer looks forward to visiting every season! 

Comments

comments

Filed Under: Uncategorized

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