Wineries
Mission Hill Family Estate Winery
About Mission Hill Family Estate Winery
The road up into Shannon Lake climbs past the golf course and the small lake at its center, then keeps climbing toward the vineyard properties on the higher benches, and Mission Hill Family Estate Winery sits along that climb at 1730 Mission Hill Road. The winery can be reached at +1-250-768-6400 or through https://www.missionhillwinery.com/.
Geography does a lot of the work here. Okanagan Lake moderates the winters, the benches and hillsides above it catch long hours of summer sun, and the slopes around Mount Boucherie have been turned over to vines as orchard land gave way to grapes. West Kelowna itself is a young city, incorporated in 2007, and its standing as wine country has grown up alongside the subdivisions. The roads climbing to the vineyard properties wind, so allow a little more driving time than the distance on a map suggests.
Estate wineries run to the season. The warm months bring the heaviest visitor traffic, harvest through late September and October turns the whole operation toward the crush pad, and winter is quieter, with shorter days at the counter common across the valley. Anyone planning a stop should check what is on offer before setting out: whether tastings are booked or walk in, what they cost, whether there is food service or picnic space, how groups and buses are handled, and whether children or dogs are welcome. Shipping, club releases and event bookings are all managed differently from one property to the next, so a phone call answers more than a map will.
Visiting Mission Hill Family Estate Winery
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In the Shannon Lake neighbourhood of West Kelowna.
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