A long weekend of wine pouring
If you visit See Ya Later Ranch, a winery located a jaunty 5KM drive up Green Lake Road just outside of Okanagan Falls, BC, be sure to ask for the “Twit of Penticton.” That’s me. Insert your own joke here. If you ask me what Major Fraser used to hide in his house for his dogs, I’ll consider comping your tasting fee. I joined the winery associate team at SYL for the season so I could learn the wine biz from the ground up. (Two words: staff discount). It’s also...
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All the wine, fewer crowds. So far. The Okanagan Spring Wine Festival, held each year in late April/early May throughout the Okanagan Valley, is usually a wee bit less busy than its sister event, the Okanagan Fall Wine Festival. Spring festival-goers tend to come up for the May long weekend to chillax, and the fall visitors are more hard core, loading up their trunks with cases of wine before it sells out. There are quirky events at the spring fest. I took in an Elvis tribute artist at...
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