Farm the site you have
No two benches down this valley grow alike, so we don’t farm them alike. Rootstock, row orientation, canopy — every decision starts with the dirt underfoot, not a manual.
About us
Same family. Same valley. Same work.
Plenty of operations in wine country talk about family. Ours is the kind where the family answers the phone, drives the tractor, and argues about picking dates at the dinner table.
One block at a time
- 2011
The first block
We put our first vines in the ground outside Oliver in the spring of 2011 — one family, one used tractor, and a dry hillside we were sure wanted to grow wine grapes. Everybody pitched in until the vines could pay their own way.
- 2014
First fruit sold
Our first real harvest went to a single winery down the road. They came back the next vintage and brought a neighbour with them. That’s how it’s grown ever since — one handshake at a time.
- 2018
Up the valley
With the home block established, we took the operation north — a lease on the Skaha Bench first, then ground at Okanagan Falls and Naramata, and more benchland around Oliver. Different benches, different fruit, one standard of farming.
- Today
Five sites, twenty-some wineries
What started as one block is now five sites and fruit in the tanks of more than twenty wineries across the Okanagan — labels that took a chance on us in year one, and new ones every vintage.
How we work
Nothing fancy. Everything careful.
Water like it’s the desert
Because it is one. Drip irrigation on every block, soil-moisture monitoring, deficit watering that pushes roots deep and flavour deeper. The valley’s water is not ours to waste.
Keep it in the community
Our fruit is trucked to wineries up and down the Okanagan, our crews come from the towns we live in, and our equipment gets fixed by the shop down the road. That’s not marketing — that’s just how the valley works.
The proof of all of it is in the rows.
See the vineyards