The Winery Talking Stories of Okanagan Valley of British Columbia

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The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 936 of the estates of British Columbia.
It is located in Okanagan Valley in the region of British Columbia

The Winery Talking Stories is one of the best wineries to follow in Okanagan Valley.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Okanagan Valley to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Talking Stories wines

Looking for the best Winery Talking Stories wines in Okanagan Valley among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Talking Stories wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Talking Stories wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Talking Stories

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Talking Stories

How Winery Talking Stories wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of pot roast, butternut and goat cheese gratin or alice's rabbit.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Talking Stories

On the nose the red wine of Winery Talking Stories. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of black fruit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Talking Stories

  • 2016With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Talking Stories.

  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Okanagan Valley

The Okanagan Valley is one of six Designated Viticultural Areas in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The DryClimate in this "pocket desert" produces some unique wines made from Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Riesling, Pinot Noir, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris and Chardonnay. There is now an almost even split between white and red grapes planted, with Merlot the most common variety. Ice wine can be produced in the Okanagan Valley but the necessary temperatures are not as consistent as on the east coast, where the winters are much colder.

The DVA produces more than 80 percent of the province's output and is the second most prolific wine region in Canada, behind Ontario's Niagara Peninsula. There are around 185 licensed grape wineries and 3,575 hectares (8,830 acres) of vineyards. The Long, narrow Okanagan Valley runs for around 210 kilometers (130 miles) from the Northern town of Salmon Arm to the border of the United States in the South. Much of the viticulture occurs in the Center of the region on the shores of Lake Okanagan, from which the area takes its name.

The Okanagan river then flows south into the US state of Washington, where it converges with the viticulturally significant Columbia River (home to the extensive Columbia Valley AVA). The river is spelled Okonogan in the United States. Unlike in the fragmented Niagara Peninsula appellation, the Okanagan Valley forms just one designated viticultural area. However, the diversity of Terroir here means there are a number of subregions within it.

The top white wines of Winery Talking Stories

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Talking Stories

How Winery Talking Stories wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of cod brandade without potatoes, rice with shrimps and onions or fresh jura salad.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Talking Stories

  • 2013With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Talking Stories.

  • Pinot Gris
  • Pinot Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Talking Stories

Planning a wine route in the of Okanagan Valley? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Talking Stories.

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

News about Winery Talking Stories and wines from the region

Platinum: The 97 point wines of DWWA 2022

The largest-ever year for entries, an incredible 18,244 wines were judged at the 2022 Decanter World Wine Awards – with just 163 wines awarded a Platinum medal. ‘Winning a Platinum medal is something really exceptional’ said Decanter World Wine Awards Co-Chair Sarah Jane Evans MW. ‘Platinum is like the stratospheric level’ she commented, ‘so it’s really saying to the winemaker: this is a great wine.’ Making up just 0.87% of the total wines tasted at the 2022 c ...

Canada’s Okanagan Valley approves six new sub-appellations

Canada’s western province of British Columbia (BC), has approved six new sub-appellations for its most famous wine-growing region of Okanagan Valley. The Okanagan Valley is BC’s largest appellation – called Geographical Indications (GIs) in Canada. And from a standing start in 2015, it now has 11 sub-GIs following the recent ratification. The six new sub-GIs are: Summerland Valleys, Summerland Lakefront, Summerland Bench, East Kelowna Slopes, South Kelowna Slopes and Lake Country. They are now l ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’

How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...

The word of the wine: Roast

Specific character given by noble rot to sweet wines, which results in a candied taste and aroma.