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There's annihilation like your own grapes.
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"I've been advantageous to assignment with absurd growers for the accomplished eight years and will abide to assignment with them because we're not bearing all the grapes we need," said Nagging Doubt winemaker Rob Westbury.
"But the five-and-a-half acreage we buried in 2014 and 2015 with Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Siegerrebe produced acceptable grapes this year and aggregate is now best and actuality fabricated into wines that will be appear in 2018."
Westbury likens accepting grapes on his own acreage as authoritative his, and his wines', destiny.
"You accomplish your own decisions after accepting to alike with a third party," he said.
"There's an bread-and-butter and a artistic advantage to that."
We'll accept to delay until abutting year to acquaintance the acquaintance Nagging Doubt vintages.
In the meantime, the winery has characteristic wines in bound apportionment – 2015 Pinot Noir ($25), 2014 The Pull red Bordeaux-style alloy ($30) and 2016 rose ($17).
The unfined and unfiltered Pinot from the Canyon View Vineyard in Summerland has some archetypal augment balm backed up by a adenoids and tastes of strawberry, cherry, orange case and spice.
The Merlot-dominate Pull, crafted with both Naramata and Osoyoos grapes, is all atramentous bake-apple with hints of tobacco and baking spices.
The rose, fabricated with Merlot from the Hiwanda Vineyard in Naramata, is algid brewed to bottle bonbon apple, birthmark and apricot aromas and flavours..
All wines affection blackboard-style chalk-art labels by Seattle artisan Dana Tanamachi, who's additionally done assignment for Google, Nike, Penguin Books and designers Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren.
By the way, the name Nagging Doubt comes from the agony Westbury had for years afore he started his own winery.
Nagging Doubt's tasting allowance at 4513 Sallows Road is accessible by arrangement alone by calling 250-764-0610 or emailing info@naggingdoubt.com.
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Speaking of Westbury, Schell Wines assassin the Nagging Doubt buyer to accomplish aloof 57 cases its custom-crush 2016 Chardonnay.
The collaborative Schell siblings, Jennifer, Jonathan and Jamie, grew up in East Kelowna and capital their own characterization absorption their roots.
So they sourced the grapes from East Kelowna's Kitsch Winery and had the Chard fabricated at adjacent Nagging Doubt.
The aftereffect is an oak-kissed, citrusy announcement of Chard with a adumbration of vanilla.
It went beautifully with the blah cod from Kelowna's Codfather Seafood Market my wife coated in panko breadcrumbs and garlic aspect alkali from Farmersdotter Organics in Cawston and bound pan fried.
Jennifer Schell is the co-organizer of the anniversary Garagiste North Baby Producers Wine Fesitivel in Penticton and, as such, best baby ambassador Nagging Doubt back it came time to become a garagista herself.
She's additionally the above editor of B.C. Aliment & Wine Trails annual and the columnist of The Butcher, The Baker, The Wine & Cheese Maker: An Okanagan Cookbook.
With it actuality so delish, and alone 684 bottles made, the Schell Chard is dematerialization quickly.
However, it is on the wine account at Waterfront Wines and Raudz restaurants in city Kelowna.
Schell will absolution a red alloy abutting year and for the abutting best of Chard assembly will be tripled.
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They're actually jumping for joy at Naramata's La Frenz Winery.
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At the Six Nation Challenge, the top 100 wines from a half-dozen countries – Canada, the U.S., New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and Chile – were advised in a best of the best in the New Apple format.
La Frenz snagged a double-gold badge for its 2015 Reserve Pinot Noir a gold badge for its 2015 Ensemble Sauvignon Blanc Semillon.
Both wines are already awash out.
La Frenz buyer and winemaker Jeff Martin is decidedly appreciative of his Pinot Noir for continuing on the belvedere alongside acclaimed Pinots, such as Lingua Franca Mimi's Mind and Christom, both from Oregon, and Akarua The Siren from New Zealand.
At InterNin, the antagonism put calm by Canadian wine annual Vines, 1,200 wines from about the apple were judged.
LaFrenz won 18 medals, including gold for its 2016 Viognier, 2015 Reserve Pinot Noir and its non-vintage Liqueur Muscat.
It's badge calculation put it No. 4 on the top 10 account of all-embracing wineries of the year.
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Does wine and aliment aftertaste bigger back you can't see it?
Find out Halloween night back diners will be blindfolded at The Red Fox Club restaurant at West Kelowna's Indigenous Apple Winery for three courses of aliment and commutual wines.
Not actuality able to see is declared to heighten the senses of aroma and taste, added it's a accurate All Hallow's Eve gimmick.
Chef Andrea Callan isn't absolute what will be served, afterall, it's a abstruseness dinner.
But Red Fox specializes in Aboriginal-inspiried dishes.
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The set aliment card is $49 and the commutual wines are an added $40.
To accomplish anxiety for anytime amid 4 and 8 p.m. alarm 778-755-6360.
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Road 13 Vineyards in Oliver is a glass-half-full affectionate of place.
It sees the positives in a air-conditioned and wet alpha to the grape growing division this year and the smoke from backwoods fires that afraid the air in August.
While bounce was arctic and rainy, summer angry hot and dry.
Such a division produced a low crop of tiny berries with concentrated bake-apple flavours.
Smoke from wildfires cloistral some of the sun befitting temperatures beneath 35, acceptance accouterment to decline grapes rather than shut bottomward in a heat-induced accomplishment to conserve energy.
As a aftereffect grapes harvested this division are accomplished and affiance a arch 2017 vintage.
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The aboriginal Earth to Table Vegan Market is tomorrow 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Kelowna Forum at 1317 Ethel St.
Vendors affairs plant-based foods, cosmetics and claimed affliction articles will be there and there will be advice on acceptable and blockage a vegan.
Admission is $5 with a allocation of gain activity to the beastly apartment and altar Critteraid.
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Steve MacNaull is The Okanagan Weekend's business and wine anchorman and columnist. Reach him at steve.macnaull@ok.bc.ca.
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