2022 year in review

It has been a very eventful year. We started with our annual mental health trip to California.  We did a bit of a grand tour of the southern portions of California. On the way down we went through Death Valley, spent a fair amount of time in Imperial Sand Dunes, a few weeks near San […]

The LONGEST WINTER/SPRING

This has been a year hasn’t it? Here on the coast of BC we’ve had the coldest, wettest spring in our remembery. What a crappy start to the season. At the moment we’re experiencing what would be normally a winter storm that we’d get sometime in November. We normally plant most of our garden crops […]

Procrastinating…

As my list of things to do gets longer (vineyard, chickens, garden, kids, Glamper, Studio, housework, paperwork etc.), I start to obsess more and more about giving it all up and living in our Trillium, and travelling more….. I think it’s a sickness of some sort when we just got back from a major trip […]

Almost a whole month

Since we posted…..  And no pictures this post. It’s been busy but fruitful.  The vineyard is now pruned thanks to help from S. (our worker) and some fellow farmers J and R of Goosefoot Farms.  We’ve also locked up some of the chickens in chicken jail AKA the Leon Millot Vineyard to see if they […]

Bottle Shock.

Well, after a week of filtering and finishing the wines we finally bottled today.  We now have over 600 cases down in the basement almost ready for sale… after they get over their bottle shock.  I think I’m in bottle shock.  The fact that we won’t have to label or cap the bottled wines is […]