Small batch wines from the South Okanagan

A map is a face is a mountain

I don't own land nor do I have an agricultural lease, and thus I don't farm the grapes I work with. I buy fruit for my wines at the whims of the BC fruit market. Which is a crazy place! But yes, I am picky.

My general rule is no synthetics and no systemics. Agriculture is an altered landscape—there's no doubt about that—but working with farmers that foster a healthy ecology in that altered landscape is of utmost importance to me.

Since starting L-ST in 2020 I've bought fruit from farms in Naramata, Summerland, Penticton, OK Falls, and Oliver.

I do one day hope to be able to farm a plot of my own.

A billion particles are born today

All my wines are ambiently fermented and left unfined and unfiltered.

I really strive to take as little out of my wines as possible and add as little as possible to them. But, ensuring that people get to experience a living wine that is fresh, stable, and drinkable is very important to me. By any environmental metric—whether we're talking farming and fruit or packing and shipping—a bottle of wine dumped down the sink is an absolute waste.

My approach to winemaking is to be a steward and to work with wine based on lab results. I've been fortunate enough to work for many different people over the years who all have diverse approaches to winemaking. Through this work and observation I've been able to learn what I want to do and what I don't want to do in order to guarantee what I think are fresh, stable, drinkable wines that are still full of life.

And I'm going to continue to learn!

I strongly believe that one should be able to drink high quality reasonably priced wines, this too is a part of my winemaking practice. And while I aspire that L-ST might be able to do many things—I'm a pretty dreamy person—being a sustainable business within my community is a part of that.