About the winery

With our northern latitude we enjoy longer sunlight hours than Napa Valley does in the key growing months of June through August. Our west-facing orientation combined with our deep desert sand gives us intense daytime heat followed by very cool nights. This exceptional diurnal temperature variation allows the grapes to fully ripen by day and then retain the acidity by night. The result in that our vineyard yields intensely flavorful grapes. With careful irrigation techniques and intensely focused viticulture practices, these are ideal growing conditions for growing the Bordeaux and Rhone varietals we have in our vineyards. In fact, we are so terroir-centric in our thinking, that our winegrower lives right in the middle of our vineyard. He quite literally eats, sleeps and breathes our grapes!

Production Level (cases)

10000

Vineyard Size (Hectares)

16.0

Tour

Daily vineyard tour in the summer (July-August) 4pm.

Distribution

Wine can be purchased at our Wine Experience Centre and online. You can also find our wine in selected private liquor stores as well as VQA stores.

Restaurant

We have food service through our Joy Road Kitchen. Food is served Thursday-Monday (July 1st-Septmeber 1st) Thursday-Sunday (September 4th-October 12th) from 11:30-5pm. Thursday-Friday-Saturday all summer long we will be hosting Sunset Happy Hours( 4pm-7pm), with food and wine as well.

Tasting room

Sit down tastings with Riedel stemware, 3 options: 10$ Introductory tasting (3Wines), 20$ Portfolio Tasting (6 wines), 30$ Vertical Nota Bene tasting (2008-2011 Vintages)

Wine club

Three different choices for our wine club. ½ case mixed club, full case mixed club, and ½ case red club. Shipments are sent out three times a year (March, May, September) Pricing found on our website.

Wine styles produced:

Still

Varieties produced:

Cabernet Franc

Cabernet Sauvignon

Carménère

Chardonnay

Chasselas

Gewürztraminer

Malbec

Merlot

Muscat

Pinot Blanc

Pinot Gris

Pinot Noir

Riesling

Roussanne

Sauvignon Blanc

Schönberger

Semillon

Syrah

Viognier