The Guide

Burrowing Owl Estate Winery

500 Burrowing Owl Place
Oliver, British Columbia
Canada V0H 1T0
250-498-0620

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Travel

South Okanagan

To the far blue mountains.

The desert and surrounding country that makes up the South Okanagan also doubles as wine country, bursting with brightness.

MONTE Blog: Calliope Viognier and Figure 8 Red

Food and Drink

Calliope Viognier and Figure 8 Red

The wine.

We taste dozens of bottles and make a special selection each week.

Community

Earth Day

Celebrating our planet.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Both a celebration of our planet—and a reminder that we still have far to go—is Earth Day, an annual day of awareness.

Food and Drink

Burrowing Owl Estate Winery

Taking flight.

The Burrowing Owl Estate Winery takes its name from the soda can–sized bird of prey that once lived in the lands around Oliver, B.C., in abundance, but was deemed extirpated, or locally extinct, in 1980.

MONTECRISTO Blog: Burrowing Owl Athene and Meritage

Food and Drink

Burrowing Owl Athene and Meritage

The wine.

We taste dozens of bottles and make a special selection each week.

MONTE Blog: Osoyoos

Travel

Osoyoos

Resort town respite.

Surrounded by mountains, desert landscape, orchards, vineyards, and home to Canada’s warmest climate and freshwater lake, the resort town of Osoyoos is rich in both culture and history.

MONTECRISTO: Cribbage Board

Wishlist

Wine Stave Cribbage Boards

The board game.

Cribbage was allegedly a derivative of a now-extinct English game called “noddy”. It is primarily, but not exclusively, a two-person game, and its charms remain, over the nearly four centuries since its invention.