Beauty in a Bottle

Week Two in my new job was largely consumed helping to bottle last year’s white wines.  The bottling line is an efficient set-up and the process moves fairly quickly, much faster than bottling our previous handcrafted wines which was a much slower process but also on...

Early Days

After only a week of self-employment, I’m already getting more sleep and having fun. This past week was taken up principally with signing, sniffing, pruning and strolling.  We had a lot of paperwork to get through with the sale of our Vancouver home, the vineyard...

Lift-off

So I guess it is no longer a dream.  Zac and I are now officially winegrowers. After more than a decade of discussion and winemaking in the garage (Montreal) and driveway (Vancouver), we are getting serious, farming 7.5 acres of white and red varietals in the Cowichan...