You can purchase all of our Birch Block Vineyard wines from Lightning Rock Winery.
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the vineyard
We are a family-owned, 5-acre vineyard in the South Okanagan, B.C., Canada, in a small town called Kaleden. We named our vineyard for the large stand of white Birch trees along the top vineyard block. The unique terroir, with sand and loam as well as glacial deposits, combined with long summer days and cool summer nights, made it an ideal site for our favourite grape— pinot noir.
Our Wines
meet the makers
Hailing from Vancouver, husband and wife Murray and Sarah Bancroft come from culinary and media backgrounds respectively. They have both travelled to France extensively since their early 20s, and took their young daughters to Paris for a sabbatical year in 2016-2017. With a long-time interest in wine, Murray, or “the trained pallet” as we like to call him, has participated in both vendange (harvest) and winemaking in Champagne and Bordeaux, and continues to return every year. While working as an international culinary consultant, he spent evenings and weekends studying viniculture at California’s U.C. Davis. For her part, Sarah enjoys “researching” wine (especially rosé) with friends and family any day of the week.
