The adventure begins before you get to Sonora Resort. Before you even get near to Sonora Resort, actually. You see, there are no roads to this pristine wilderness destination, so your access is either by air (hiring a floatplane or helicopter from a company like...
Townsite Brewing is a microbrewery located in the historic Townsite district of Powell River, at the top of BC’s Sunshine Coast. Though this sustainably-focused brewery was founded in 2010, they are still relatively unknown, quietly making delish small batches that...
LoneTree Cider, a small, two-year old company uses BC cider apples from an old-growth orchard in the Okanagan, and processes them much like wine: crushed, fermented, filtered without artificial colors, flavors or grain glutens. Their Authentic Dry is a blend of...
Oliver, BC’s Nk'Mip Cellars (pronounced In-ka-meep) is North America's first aboriginal owned and operated winery, and has set the precedent worldwide for successful, Native run businesses. Mer’r’iym (pronounced mur’-eem’) translates as marriage, and here...
Liquidity is relatively new to the BC wine scene, though showing confidently through their proficient, practiced team. Nestled in the exciting Okanagan Falls region (middle of Okanagan Valley), the winery has just completed construction of a stunning tasting room –...
The boys at Victoria’s Driftwood Brewery have done it again, releasing yet another amazing special edition beer that has me racing to my local shop to pick it up before the shelves are bare. As legend has it, Hildegard Von Bingen, a 12th century Benedictine nun,...
These naturally brewed sodas are not your average pop. A super successful side project from Victoria’s Phillips Brewing, their approach to the craft of artisan soda stems from their approach to brewing beer. Designed from scratch, using only raw, natural...
Just imagine: vines tucked near by the South Thompson River, rolling grassy hills, wild sage, bighorn sheep… That’s right—this isn’t your typical wine region. This is the exciting frontier of BC wine. Harper’s Trail wines are the first made from vineyards in...
You don’t come by the name “Spud Valley” casually – you have to earn it. Pemberton, just outside of Whistler, is famed for its potatoes. In fact, its potatoes are of such quality, that Pemberton is a world supplier of seed potatoes and high grade table potatoes....
East Kelowna, Okanagan Valley, BC Martin’s Lane is a special small-scale collaboration between Mission Hill winemaker John Simes and acclaimed German winemaker Fritz Hasselbach. Not quite the slopes of the Mosel, but these vines come from the steepest part of...
