Medium lemon-gold appearance. Clean, light nose with apricot-pear qualities. Medium body with nice acidity and nice balance of sweetness and fruit flavours with mineral and floral notes. Very good.

Bought this at Nancy’s Wine for Food in New York (wine is certainly cheaper in the US). Medium to deep yellow-gold appearance; nice apricot-honey nose with floral hints. Medium body with good acidity; stone fruit and nice sweetness but a little one-dimensional. Good length.

This is a blend of Optima, Pinot Gris, Gewürztraminer, Ehrenfelser, and Riesling. See spec sheet (PDF). Pale, clear silver-gold. A real Okanagan nose: apple, peach, and a hint of sagebrush. Not quite dry on the palette, with a nice complexity, lime and Riesling dominating. I don’t drink many blends, but this is very good. See Blasted Church.

Clear medium gold. Lemon-mineral nose with a hint of vanilla. Fairly light body, good acidity, straightforward Chardonnay with citrus and green fruit qualities. See domaine Bernard Defaix . About $35 at Kitsilano Wine Cellar.

Clear medium lemon-gold, with a light sweet fruit nose. Honey-apple with slate and slight stone fruit notes and good acidity. A pleasure to drink: straightforward with a nice steel-green fruit finish.

Medium clear lemon-gold appearance. Sweet citrus and mineral on the nose with the floral-petrol quality typical of the varietal. High acidity on the palette; a nice bite balanced by medium honey-pineapple sweetness. A little one-dimensional, but quite drinkable. See Weingut Selbach-Oster. $34 at Kitsilano Wine Cellar.

Clear medium gold. Nice straightforward petrol-honey nose with a hint of apricot. Medium body, medium sweetness, light stone fruit notes with slight steely qualities, easy on the palette. Finishes a little disappointingly with an earthy-prune quality.

This is a blend of Gewürztraminer, Pinot Blanc, Kerner, Pinot Gris and Ehrenfelser. Pale lemon-gold appearance, with a hint of green. Nose is light and clean, refreshing citrus-pineapple with a hint of sweetness. Medium body off-dry on the palette with good acidity. Complex Okanagan peach and green apple flavours with tropical fruit notes. Very good! Another winner from Joie Wines. About $27 at Kitsilano Wine Cellar.

Pale lemon-gold appearance. Medium nose with fruit and spice qualities, nicely balanced citrus-apple vanilla. Medium body with strong acidity on the palette, strong sense of citrus fruit with floral qualities and tasteful oaking. Very good. See Qupé Wine Cellars. $28 at Marquis Wine Cellars.

Clear, medium lemon-gold appearance. Significant clover-vanilla oak tones on the nose, with green fruit or grapefruit and a hint of earthiness. Medium body dry with good acidity; oak tones balanced with pepper/mushroom qualities. A bit of a harshness that develops through good length. I lined up to buy this wine; not quite sure why. Burrowing Owl Estate Winery.