Kelowna's Juicy Tips

Vineyard managers will tell you that a critical element to growing great grapes for wine is not to overwater them. You want small, flavourful grapes to make award-winning wine. With the new greywater catchment system of Tantalus Vineyards environmentally-minded winery facility, this winery will be able to achieve this goal using the rainwater they collect.

Wow – this is great news! Kalala Organic Winery in West Kelowna has netted some really fantastic awards: one for their Chardonnay Icewine at the Chardonnay Du Monde competition in France (the Oscars of the wine industry); and one for their Riesling at the California New World International Wine Competition. Both these competitions are high [...]

St. Patrick’s Day has come and gone, and it has made me think about just how many pubs we have here in Kelowna. We have a very active pub scene, maybe in part because as a community, Kelowna tends to be laid-back and casual – meaning that we like to go out in groups of [...]

Just got this great photo from Michael J. Ballingall up at Big White – it appears that our newest favourite hockey players have been getting some great R&R along with their practices while in Kelowna. Riding and Revving, that is!
The team enjoyed a day of snowmobiling up at Big White. I hope they enjoyed our [...]

We’re excited this week, and we have good reason to be! The Detroit Red Wings are scheduled to practice here between their games in Calgary and Edmonton. Both of the practices will be open to the public for a donation to the Kelowna Food Bank. What a class act!

Full disclosure: I am a menace with golf clubs. And I don’t mean “menace” in a flattering way. If I said that I give new meaning to the word “slice” that might be too kind. However, I can host great golfers with the best of them. Today I’m here to tell all you golfers in [...]

Kelowna can keep right on wearing its red and white.
After playing host to Olympic teams from Germany and Sweden, Kelowna gets a chance to cheer on Team Canada this week. The Canadian Sledge Hockey Team arrived in Kelowna yesterday as part of its preparation for the 2010 Winter Paralympic Games in Vancouver.

Last fall, an article in the travel magazine Endless Vacation focused on the food scene in our abundant slice of BC. In a section entitled “Arrival of the Chefs”, author Anita Stewart enumerates the many star-quality Chefs that this valley attracts. Her premise is that where there is fresh produce in abundance, chefs will follow. [...]