Black Hills Estate

Black Hills Estate have some of the most favourable grape growing conditions in the country, resulting in exceptional terroir. Located on the famed Black Sage Road, 13 kilometres north of Osoyoos, BC and 10 kilometres south of Oliver, BC. This places Black Hills Estate in the Okanagan Valley appellation, centered in the middle of Canada’s only official desert. The resulting microclimate is with one of hottest, driest and sunniest sites in the country. In fact, with their northern latitude, they have more sunlight hours than Napa Valley in the key growing months of June through August.

The vineyards’ west-facing slope aspect and deep desert sand experiences exceptional diurnal temperature variation providing daytime heat that fully ripens grapes followed by cool nights that allow acid retention. The result? Intensely flavourful grapes!

Black Hills’ careful irrigation techniques and thoughtfully focused viticulture practices, provide ideal growing conditions for Bordeaux and Rhone varietals. They are so terroir-focused that the winegrower lives right in the middle of the vineyard. He quite literally eats, sleeps and breathes his grapes!