Sip & Discover Naramata Wine Tour

Moraine Winery is a family-owned winery and vineyard overlooking Okanagan lake, minutes from Penticton. Moraine peers over the landscape and water from its shelf-like location above striking clay bluffs. These glaciated white clay cliffs comprise the breathtaking Naramata Bench and inspire the winery’s land-formed name.

The winery owners are the husband-wife team of Oleg & Svetlana. In 1995, the couple moved to Canada from Europe to give their family a better quality of life. They first moved to Edmonton, where they lived for 15 years. They were charmed by the beauty of the Okanagan and vineyards, which made them relocate from Alberta in 2009. The couple believes that wine offers one of life’s most simple, enjoyable, and accessible pleasures, and this philosophy spurred their leap into the wine industry.

Lake Breeze was named for the winds that blow across the bluffs year-round. They are located on the renowned Naramata Bench on Lake Okanagan. The MacIntyre family purchased the property in 2001. Although the beginnings were humble, the excellent craft of a young winemaker inspired the MacIntyres to invest extensively and pour their hearts into this wild venture.

The wines of Lake Breeze are known to be clean, crisp and fruit driven in style. They endeavour to take the natural expression of the grape and transfer it to the bottle with as little intervention as possible. The Lake Breeze Cellar Series is a luxurious collection adorned with their wind goddess. Each varietal pays tribute to the regional wind that embodies its unique winemaking style.

Unique, small-lot, and terroir-driven are terms best used to describe Hillside's wines. their focus is showcasing hand-crafted wine made exclusively from Naramata-grown grapes. Hillside wines display unique and compelling characteristics allowing wine drinkers the opportunity to share in the discovery and development of the Naramata Bench as a collection of serious terroirs.

Their charming courtyard and modern farmhouse tasting room offer a friendly and casual setting to explore and taste their award-winning wines.

Pénélope and Dylan Roche, the owners, winemakers, and vignerons at Roche Wines, brought their sustainable farming practices and traditional French savoir-faire to Okanagan terroir in 2011.

Dylan and Pénélope Roche had extensive experience in their project. Pénélope is a trained viticulturist and winemaker from Bordeaux, France. For six generations, her family-owned Chateau Les Carmes Haut-Brion, an exquisite vineyard and winery in the Graves appellation whose history dates back to Roman times. Born into the winemaking tradition, Pénélope studied enology in Bordeaux and made wine in Spain, New Zealand, and Australia. Born in Vancouver, Dylan found his passion for wine while working for an active travel company in the heart of Burgundy, France, as a bicycle mechanic. Earning his diploma in viticulture and winemaking in Beaune, he apprenticed in Chablis and New Zealand before relocating to Bordeaux. He taught wine appreciation classes in Pauillac and made wine in Margaux and Pessac-Leognan.

This stunning property, Lake Breeze Vineyards, overlooks Lake Okanagan and is home to The Patio restaurant, which offers open-air “destination” dining. Steps away from the kitchen are the two-acre farm that supplies them not only vegetables, fruits, herbs, and greens for their fresh food-focused menus but hogs for their charcuterie program and chickens for their eggs. It just doesn’t get any more local than this.