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For more information Contact Gary at 250-498-7709 or email Gary@montakarn.ca

Our wines are honest, unpretentious and made with passion. Our wines represent Gary’s heart and soul. The tastes, aromas and subtleties of our wines speak to Montakarn’s Thai culture, “the land of smiles”… our wines are sure to make you smile. Everything is grown here, picked here, and fermented here. The vineyard that you walk through is the wine that you drink.

For Montakarn’s debut vintages, the wines were handcrafted blends rather than a large collection of single varieties. “We just find that blends seem to be the trick to this valley”, says Gary. The white blend, Tippy Toe, is composed of 70% un-oaked Chardonnay, 22% Sauvignon Blanc, and 8% Viognier. All were blended at crush and fermented in stainless steel tanks.

Gary continues, “the Sauvignon Blanc is really snappy here. It’s the clay and silt that does it.”

The terroir variations on the property also help explain why the Malbec ripens significantly earlier than the Merlot. “Our Merlot is in a low clay pocket, like a pond that had dried out,” Gary explains. “It is a little cooler there and the Merlot takes a little longer to come about. The Malbec is up on a sandy knoll and gets a little more heat there, which the Malbec likes. You can almost split the vineyard down the driveway. The north side has a little more clay and the south side is more rocky.”