Wine country....

This morning 11 of us boarded a wine tour bus and headed to 6 wineries. First on the list was the oldest vineyard with some vines as old as 40 years. This was Langs. Very impressive, and very good wines!

Kewl shot of the bride to be

The award winning red.


2nd winery, me and Bran

our 11 glasses waiting

3rd on the tour, this vineyard was started with smuggled vines from Yugoslavia.

Very kewl pic by Dean!

the grape vines. We had an awesome lunch here at Hillside.

then we traveled into Penticton, a minute in, and stopped at a new vineyard, Ruby Tuesdays,neat decor, neat labels......

..... not a favorite tho!

...sorry Ruby, maybe next time.

This was our favorite!! Elephant island. Their speciality was cherry wine from 30 year old trees in their orchard. Any fruit wine that we tasted here, had that distinct flavour of the fruit, not just a "hint", apricot, black current and raspberry were our fave's! it was really hard to choose only 1 to buy!

a crate full of Pink Elephant Champagne

the colors of the wines were so brilliant!

Therapy vineyards, the 6th stop on out tour was an unscheduled one. This is Brandy's favorite vineyard and since she was disappointed in Ruby Tuesday, the driver took us to one more stop! I loved the names of the wines here! very witty :-)







back at the lodge, the driver handed us all our vino that we purchased, there were only 11 of us.... but there were allot of bottles!! Thanx Bran that was an awesome day!! and an added bonus that we got to spend it with you! :-)

After a rest back at the cabin, and a cool down... (the weather has been beautiful, and hot hot hot!! ) we headed to lodge for 6pm for a great BBQ. Not your typical burgers and dogs... there was a perfectly BBQ'd beef roast, for a beef dip, and yummy salads. Now we must rest for the big day tomorrow.......