Vanilla Pod @ Poplar Grove

Vanilla Pod @ Poplar Grove

Newly opened, the Vanilla Pod Restaurant at Poplar Grove Winery is one of the Okanagan’s most gorgeously situated winery restaurants. I’m eager to try it out. Poplar Grove’s founder and executive winemaker, Ian Sutherland, and president and owner, Tony Holler, join...
Wine, Music, Cowboys…

Wine, Music, Cowboys…

Did you know that music can influence your wine purchases? In a new study, researchers played German music in a store for a day and 73 per cent of the wine sold that day was German. The next day when French music was played, French wines made up 77 per cent of sales;...
Richard Kamphuys – Ancient Hills Winery

Richard Kamphuys – Ancient Hills Winery

  A hill overlooking Kelowna International Airport may seem an unusual site for an estate winery, but for Dutch native Richard Kamphuys and his wife Jitske, it’s a perfectly sensible spot to grow quality grapes and make fine wine. When the couple first immigrated...
2012 Best Restaurants

2012 Best Restaurants

Our readers choose their favourites in a host of categories and Okanagan Life brings you the results. Welcome to the 18th Annual Best Restaurants issue. Perhaps above all others, this is the keeper magazine of the year. Readers try new restaurants all the time and you...
Canadian Culinary Championships 2012

Canadian Culinary Championships 2012

    “Are you looking for a fishmonger?” calls out Jon Crofts, co-owner of Codfathers Fish and Seafood Market in Kelowna. It’s the eve of the Canadian Culinary Championships and Jon has been hoping all night that the mystery wine, feature element of the first...
Golden Mile Sub Appellation

Golden Mile Sub Appellation

Learn how nature and nurture combine to create unique flavours and a premier Okanagan tasting tour… When sub-appellations are named in the Okanagan, the Golden Mile Bench between Oliver and Osoyoos is on track to be among the first (along with the Black Sage and...