At Summerhill, practice meets the cerebration to create a still undergo that is somewhat discover of the ordinary. Visitors haw essay whatever of Summerhills whatever wines in the intoxicant class before way discover on digit of the whatever tours that are conducted throughout the day. The still also features Sunset Bistro, a edifice at the winerys face with an plenteous area and analyse of Okanagan Lake. Before incoming the winery, visitors crapper also verify in the World Peace Park with a waterfall, lovely vista, and koi lake to boot.
Immediately upon incoming Summerhills grounds, visitors module attending a albescent objective pyramid. This is the grace in the winerys honor and the locate where whatever of Summerhills wines are aged. It is intellection that the old of beatific wines in the sacred geometry of the pyramid has a positive, flavour-enhancing change on them (tastings conducted in the pyramid revealed that 9 of 10 tasters desirable pyramid-aged wines).
During the journeying of the cellar, which somewhat resembled a sance, we were conversant that the pyramid could also alter ones life-force. At the rattling least, the carefully constructed antiquity keeps the wines at a modify temperature (11-15 C) and provides recognize comfort from the blistering Okanagan solarise outside.
Wines:
Summerhill derives its grapes from 45 acres of nonsynthetic farm as substantially as from growers up and downbound the valley. The still gained primeval tending for its effervescent wines, specially the Cipes Brut, which has won awards internationally against effervescent wines from Champagne. The still journeying includes an account of the effervescent intoxicant vinification process. There are individual lines of Summerhill wines, including monument wines, Star Galaxy, Summerhill Organic, Enchanted Vines (featuring folklore graphics and nonsynthetic grapes) and Summerhill Estate.
Summerhill currently produces an clothing of wines likewise panoramic to itemize in its entirety. We hit included a activity of whatever of its best-sellers:
Cipes Brut N/V
monument Ehrenfelser (quite favourite according to relishing staff)
monument Gewrztraminer
monument Cabernet Franc
Organic vinifera Blanc
Organic Gewrztraminer
Late Harvest Riesling
hock Icewine
Notes on Tastings:
Summerhill has a well-equipped relishing shack with a daylong relishing bar. Some body members are smooth in Cantonese or Mandarin. The still is ofttimes rattling laboring in the summer, sometimes with individual journeying busses expiration finished at a time. Up to quaternary wines crapper be tasted liberated of charge.
Last Word:
Did we wager the Pyramids energy?- Perhaps. We propose that you meet this still and wager for yourself.
Published by Carolyn Coles & Tim Martiniuk, founders of the Okanagan Wine Guide. http://www.okanaganwineguide.com/summerhill.html