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Quality: The VQA designation (Vintners Quality Alliance) requires a professional tasting panel to approve each wine.

Tannin: A compound in the skin and seeds of grapes that is essential in providing substance and backbone to red wines.*

Varietals: 49% of British Columbia’s wines are white. 51% are red. In the last acreage survey conducted, 97.1% of the yield was from vinifera grapes and 2.9% from hybrids.

Meritage: Rhymes with heritage. A term created in California to identify blends made with Bordeaux grape varieties.*

Geography: The southern Okanagan Valley in the area between Oliver and the border is classified as part of the Sonora Desert, which runs south to the Baja Peninsula in Mexico.

*Schreiner, John - British Columbia Wine Country, Whitecap Books Ltd., 2003

 
 
  Tinhorn Creek Vineyards
   
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Oliver
British Columbia, Canada
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