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- Owner
- judee
- Address
- 1350 Naramata Road, Penticton, B.C., Canada, V2A 8T6
- Telephone
- 250-493-6274
- Fax
- 250-493-6294
- E-mail
- Website
- http://www.hillsideestate.com/
- Featured
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Hillside Estate Winery began in 1984 when Vera and Bohumir Klolocka
began replacing their apricot orchard with wine grapes. In 1989 Vera,
along with two other small vineyard owners, lobbied the BC government
to produce and sell their wine to the public directly from their
winery. Their success was proven when Premier Bill Vander Zalm
announced the “Farm Gate Winery Policy” which allowed vineyards that
were less than five acres to sell their wines at the “farm gate”.
Hillside Winery became one of the first Farm Gate Wineries in British
Columbia . Until that time, there existed only large commercial and
smaller estate winery operations. With the emergence of the Farm Gate
winery policy, a whole new dimension was added to the wine industry in
British Columbia that included guidelines for the VQA (Vintners Quality
Alliance - an alliance between growers and wineries) in the province.
The first commercial release of a Hillside wine was the 1989 Auxerrois;
receiving not only the VQA Seal but also the VQA Gold Seal, reserved
only for a handful of the very best British Columbia wines.
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