…But as Chris Tolley at Moon Curser in the Okanagan Valley points out, “plantings are only as appropriate as the wine is good.” He’s experimenting with…

“The Tolley family changed the name of the winery to celebrate American gold miners who smuggled their B.C. nuggets south of the border except on nights when the moon illuminated their illegal activities.”

Most of the improvement has been in the last 20 years, says Schreiner. Appropriate vines planted in the nineties are now settled in and mature…

If wines were emojis, dolcetto would be that one with the grinning teeth and open eyes. It’s a cheerful red par excellence. A smile in a bottle…

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Moon Curser Vineyards is a small, family owned and operated winery located on the Osoyoos East Bench…

Former Calgarians Chris and Beata Tolley left respective careers as a software engineer and chartered accountant to start a winery in Osoyoos…

Arneis, a white grape varietal from Piedmont, is one of rising stars among Italian varietals now also being planted elsewhere…

This Italian white grape rarely is seen in the Pacific Northwest, but one would hope the work in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley by Chris and Beata Tolley along the U.S./Canada border will prove to be inspiring…

Moon Curser whites perform very well….Read more Click Here.

I look at wine reviews all the time. If it’s a wine I’m not familiar with, or if it’s a bottle I’ve set down for a few years and I want to see how it’s drinking, often the first thing I do is…

Quirky, delightful labels, fearless plantings of grape varieties such as tannat, touriga nacional, and carmenere, and a name: Moon Curser…

Here’s an unusual blend for Canada, made from equal parts tannat and syrah…