David Wishart

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CITY people who “think they’re smarter than their country cousins should visit a small town some ~« time.

November 6- 18, 1996 (13 days/11 nights)

$3, 4935 ean,

¢ Round trip airfare from. Vancouver ¢ First-class hotel

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NANCY Johnson and Gunther Lang at the Lang Winery. Lang left his senior man-. a : Boos Paes

agernent position with Mercedes in Stuttgart and came here 16 years ago, bought

a small vineyard and started to read about making wine. Today they have a win-

ery next to one of their two vineyards overlooking Okanagan Lake.

.. .For a start they will find -

. it easier to nicet people, and “what's out there can be a

. real eye-opener.

Take the wine industry,

“one of the biggest tourist

» attractions in the Okanagan | *:Vailey. An enterprising com- pany called Okanagan Wine

Tours (OWT), just four years old, last year took 5,000 visitors to many of the 34° wineries around. Penticton. There are. big commercial wineries, estate - wineries‘and farmgate — wineries, and according to OWT's Nancy Johnson the - wines are as good as those |

in France and a heck of a lot

. cheaper.

I was just there on a

* quick fly-in trip courtesy of

AirBC and only had time to

. visit a couple of wineries, _ but what I tried was quite

acceptable. More than that, |

~met some characters.

:;One.was Gunther Lang,

“who operates the Lang “ Winery with his wife "Kristina. Lang chucked his

job as a senior manager with Mercedes in Stuttgart and: came here 16 years ago, bought a small vineyard and started to read about making wine. Today they have a winery next to one of their two vineyards overlooking Okanagan Lake.

But it took hard work and

five years of lobbying to change the regulations to allow a small operation, the

‘first farmgate winery in B. Cc.

There are now 15.

The Langs produce _ 10,000 gallons of wine a year, which translates to

See Okanagan page 23

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