Quite possibly you may never have heard of this grape before. I found out about it a few years back while researching disease resistant earl...

I had an interesting conversation with a friend the other day. They were asking me some questions about the vines we were planting at the vi...

In the past two years we have recorded approximately 900 and 1000 degree days between May 1st and September 30 th . There are actually a few...

There seems to be more and more interest being generated around the possibilities of growing grapes in Nakusp and the Arrow Lakes valley on ...

I've been following the issue of some Canadian wineries importing foreign wine, grapes or juice, then vinifying it, bottleing and/or st...

I've grown all my vines from cuttings and for the most part have had very good success. Where I've had difficulty with cuttings has ...

We're training the vines up to a 5 foot fruit wire in 2010. So far it appears the winter cold is not as much as an issue as early fall f...

It has been a while since I've posted a blog but have to talk about a wine I recently tried. It came from Southend Farm Vineyard in BC ...

The experimental vineyard got frost on October 1st (-1.7c) and this ended the growing season. Actually, as all the berry cluster we kept th...

Photo of Unirrigated Leon Millot, August 9, 2009 I read about a few interesting studies that had been done that measured the amount of mois...