Twilight Tastings: Half-Day Kelowna Wine Tour

Priest Creek Family Estate Wineries desire to provide a collection of quality premium wines which can be shared today or cellared for the future. Priest Creek Family Estate Winery was founded through Darren and Jane’s wish to raise their children on a vineyard, bringing them back to their farming roots. They are located in South Kelowna in the beautiful Okanagan Valley, boasting beautiful mountain vistas from each direction.

“Priest Creek” was chosen to pay tribute to the heritage of the land. This Estate was part of a parcel of land farmed by the Mission in the mid-1800s. Priest Creek runs behind the property and into Mission Creek, where Father Pandosy planted the first grapes in the valley for wine.

Corporate life was exciting and challenging, and nonstop! But there was always something nagging at Rob–he longed to create something with his own hands. On a long-term business assignment in San Francisco, Rob fell in love with wine. Something clicked, and he realized that this was meant to be.

And so, life took another convoluted turn. Rob turned his efforts to studying the artistry and science of winegrowing and winemaking. Many years of simultaneously apprenticing with innovative Okanagan winemakers, earning his Viticulture and Enology certificates from Washington State University, planting the Nagging Doubt estate vineyard from scratch, and learning the business of wine on the job have helped Rob earn his place among the industry’s hardest-working talents.

The View Winery is situated on a parcel of land in the Turton/Ward family for 5 generations. Historically, fresh market apples were grown on the property. In the mid-1990s, a transition began, and vineyards and cider apples were planted. Spartans and McIntosh gave way to Gewürztraminer, Riesling, Ehrenfelser and Pinotage vines, and cider apple varieties such as Belle de Boskoop, Chisel Jersey and Bulmers Norman.

In 2006, the family’s beloved old packinghouse, built by Great-Granddad Ward in 1922, was transformed into a winery and cidery under the direction of his grandson Chris Turton and great-granddaughter Jennifer Turton-Molgat.

The View now produces over ten thousand cases each year. Their diverse portfolio of award-winning wines includes Riesling, Gewürztraminer, Pinot Gris, Ehrenfelser, and our signature reds: Pinotage and Pinot Noir.