We have spent the past month in British Columbia, two weeks in Vancouver and two weeks in the Okanagan Valley. Sunday we head back to the states, toward Walla Walla Washington and the wine bloggers conference.
We’ve traveled to most of the wine regions in the U.S. as well as Burgundy, Northern Rhone, Spain, Portugal, Germany and Northern Italy. I’m not sure there is a more spectacularly beautiful wine region than the Okanagan Valley–hundreds of wineries along both sides of this 70 mile long lake.
And the wines are very good.
Delighted that you spent some time in Canada and enjoyed yourself. Sadly, our inter-provincial trade restrictions (read barriers) means that BC wine is scarce in Ontario. Ironically have access to more Oregon wine than BC wine. Is a trip to our Niagara region in your future?
Yes. Hopefully next year. That is the plan at this point. Sorry to hear your wine trade laws are as bad as ours if not worse.
This is an article on the (in)famous “Free the Beer” case that made it to our Supreme Court earlier this year. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/scoc-decision-liquor-provinces-1.4625861 Between this and the NAFTA 2.0 acrimony, I’m going to stop thinking about trade for a while.