Vitis Issue 6 • Fall/Winter 2020

In this issue, we explore how Earls, Cactus Club and JOEY have all invested in talented sommeliers who are training the palates of a generation of servers and consumers.

Also, after months of staying close to home, we’re excited to explore wine regions from Vancouver Island’s Cowichan Valley to Lake Country in the North Okanagan to Ventoux, the mountainous appellation in the Southern Rhône that is showing so much promise. We follow the “tortilla trail” of Mexican restaurants that have popped up in the South Okanagan. We check in with Emily Walker at the newly re-opened Naramata Inn, where she plays with every vintage in B.C. and beyond. And we discover what that gorgeous herbal fragrance wafting across wine country really is.