Wineries
Little Straw Vineyards
About Little Straw Vineyards
Vineyards cover the slopes around Mount Boucherie, the old volcanic cone that rises behind the West Kelowna shoreline, and the bench roads above the lake link one property to the next. Little Straw Vineyards farms and pours in that landscape from 2815 Ourtoland Road in Lakeview Heights, with a phone line at +1-250-769-0404 and more at https://littlestraw.bc.ca/.
Estate wineries work to the calendar of the vines rather than to a retail schedule. Spring means pruning and frost watching, summer means canopy work, and harvest through late September and October pulls every available hand toward the crush pad. Tasting room life follows that rhythm, busy through the warm months when visitors come across the bridge and along the bench roads, quieter and often shorter through the winter. It is a seasonal pattern shared by most of the west side wine country.
Anyone planning a visit will get more out of it by calling first. Wineries differ in whether tastings are seated or taken at a bar, whether they are booked or walk in, what they charge and whether a fee comes off a purchase, and whether groups, buses or children are accommodated. Some sell only at the wicket, some ship, and some run a club with its own release days. Picnic space, food service and dog policies vary as well. If you are building a day around several properties on the Lakeview Heights benches, allow more time between stops than the map suggests, because the roads up here wind a good deal.
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In the Lakeview Heights neighbourhood of West Kelowna.
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