It is pale gold in colour with aromas of pear, apple and some toasty notes. Rick began my tasting with the Brut Sauvage 2014 ($39), a sparkling wine made from 100% Pinot Gris. This may turn some people away, but for this fee you can taste through the entire portfolio of whites, reds, orange, rosé and a fortified wine, and the tasting fee is waived if you buy a bottle. The vineyard is planted to Pinot Gris, Gewurztraminer and Pinot Noir, and this is what the portfolio is primarily made up of, with the more recent addition of a Syrah and a Syrah rosé, from fruit sourced from Covert Farms in Oliver.īefore visiting Sage Hills, you should be aware that there is a tasting fee of $20. They have a very strong belief about farming the grapes in a way that they refer to as “beyond organic”, striving to farm organically, beyond what is required for a certification process. Rick Thrussell is the owner of the winery & vineyard, with his partner Toby and his son Keenan helping out in the vineyard, the cellar and the tasting room.
Perched on the bluffs overlooking Okanagan Lake, with clear views up to Peachland and over to the Naramata Bench, it is a clean modern tasting room and winemaking facility. I started out by driving to the north end of Summerland to Sage Hills Organic Estate Vineyard & Winery. I have recently updated my Wine Region pages to include all new winery and cidery licenses in BC.Ī few weekends ago I decided to visit a few wineries in Summerland – one that I’ve visited before but they have many new products out one whose wines I have sampled but to whose tasting room I’ve never been and one that I’d heard good things about but never tried the wines or visited. This summer I will endeavour to visit as many of them as I can (although I don’t know how many trips outside of the Okanagan, Similkameen and Shuswap I’ll be able to make).
There are more and more new wineries popping up throughout BC, almost daily it seems at times.
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