I OKANAGAN VALLEY WINES

摘要

AIthough I am an obsessive compulsive wine lover and traveler, I am first a winemaker. I grew up careening down vineyard rows on my VeloSoleX (motorised bicycle) in the French village of Pom-mard, Burgundy; stacking massive shale walls for my dad's near-vertical Hudson Valley vineyard terraces; planting a three-hundred-year-old cornfield in Chester County, Pennsylvania into the latest and greatest Dijon and Bordeaux clones. This has made just bellying up to the tasting bar seem a bit like...a half empty glass of wine. I want it all: the vineyards, the cellars, the people, and what they are willing to do and put up with....and what all of that tastes like. Thus I was palpably excited as I set out recently to speak with two icons of artisan British Columbia wines in the Okanagan Valley.