Tag: Organic

Wine art at Rigour and Whimsy

This week’s podcast was recorded last summer at Rigour and Whimsy Winery in Okanagan Falls. This is the unofficial Part 2 from the episode I did with Jess Hopwood from Farm to Glass Wine Tours. If you haven’t heard it, it is totally worth going back to listen to it. I had planned to cut this into Jess’s episode but the tasting went longer than I thought and Jess and I talked WAY longer than I thought so I’ve given it its own podcast.

You will hear the voices you will hear along with Jess and I is Rigour and Whimsy owners Costa Gavaris and Jody Gavaris, the team behind this super-creative winery up behind Peach Cliff in Okanagan Falls. It was tons of fun and the wines were amazing and super-expressive. One of them may even end up in a future book somewhere…

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The One with Eagles in the Distance

It’s another flashback episode this week featuring Steve Venables from Forbidden Fruit Winery in the Similkameen Valley. This is a slightly ASMR interview since it was recorded outside in February on a beautiful day while sitting near the banks of the mighty Similkameen River. This was originally recorded February 2012. 

During the pandemic, I had to really temper my habit of stopping in to places to say hi and catch up but am slowly getting back to doing that whenever I can. I visited Steve just last spring, stopping in to say hello, and we talked about recording this interview. With that memory flooding back, I thought it would be great to revisit and share it with all the sipsters out there who might appreciate growing things naturally and learning that ‘organic’ is more than just a way to grow food. 

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