Stag's Hollow Winery - Chardonnay 2023

Stag's Hollow Winery - Chardonnay 2023Stags Hollow is a winery in the Okanagan Falls Sub Geographical Indication committed to the sustainable production of wines of the highest quality. Stags Hollow was founded by Larry Gerelus and Linda Pruegger in 1992, with an initial planting of Vidal and Chasselas on a 10 acre vineyard. The strong demand on an initial small production led to the growth of the winery, and in 2011 the purchase of their Shuttleworth Creek vineyard. The business was sold

500-liter foudre and demi-muids for the NV wines

and the wines are fermented exclusively with wild yeasts

They had done just that: sold their eponymous brand to Constellation Brands and bought land because their non-compete clause prohibited Kim and Erica to participate in any other way in the wine business

They organically farm 18ha of indigenous grapes like this rosé from Gaglioppo

In the early 1980s

bedding white peach

come to work with their parents

All this was being done by producing mostly still wines (80%) where sparkling wines were (and are still) the main types of wine produced in the appellation (75%)

juicy watermelon

The vine produces small

Marcel Mercier and Elaine Kozak

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