Road 13 Vineyards - Seventy-Four K 2022

Road 13 Vineyards - Seventy-Four K 2022The main commitment at Road 13 is sustainable farming, followed by going the extra mile both in the vineyard and the cellar. Road 13 tends to vineyards in the Okanagans Golden Mile and Sage Benches. Home to a gravel rich foundation and free draining dirt we irrigate on demand, the vines on the Golden Mile get a good cooling off period when the sun dips below the Kobau Mountain range in the late afternoon. This drop in temperature allows grapes to

Grapes are laid out to dry for the winter months on typical bamboo racks called arele in drying rooms

It oozes a sense of history

after deciding against a move to Venezuela

BC wine pioneer Joe Busnardo came upon an excellent property sheltered below the rugged desert bluffs of what is now known as the Golden Mile Bench

and Cellini

In 1978 the Dartier family bought a further 4 hectare plot called La Magdeleine and in 1989

a total of 115 acres comprise the Hester Creek estate

Italy for many years–earthy

000 feet elevation

As his son Segre Hochar was later to say of one of Lebanon’s many ancient monuments: “This is the only serious temple erected to Bacchus anywhere in the Roman world

Fermentation is spontaneous

and wild yeasts used for fermentation