BC wine country, region by region.

Lake Country · Winfield · Oyama · Carr's Landing

Lake Country sits at the northern edge of the Central Okanagan, where a narrow strip of land threads between Okanagan Lake, Wood Lake and Kalamalka Lake.

Kelowna · East Kelowna · Southeast Kelowna · Okanagan Mission

Kelowna is often called the birthplace of BC grape growing and is the Okanagan's largest city, with vineyards climbing the benches and slopes on the east side of Okanagan Lake.

West Kelowna · Westbank · Lakeview Heights · Glenrosa

West Kelowna faces the city across Okanagan Lake, its vineyards arranged around the broad shoulders of Mount Boucherie, the remnant of an ancient volcano whose rock underlies many of the area's vineyard soils.

Peachland · Trepanier

Peachland is a small lakeside community on the steep western shore of Okanagan Lake, tucked between West Kelowna and Summerland.

Summerland · Trout Creek · Prairie Valley · Garnet Valley

Summerland spreads across the west shore of Okanagan Lake around Giant's Head, an extinct volcano whose slopes have grown tree fruit for over a century and vines for decades.

Naramata · Penticton

The Naramata Bench runs north from Penticton along the east shore of Okanagan Lake, a narrow shelf of glacial soils perched above dramatic clay cliffs and facing west across the water.

Penticton · Kaleden

Penticton occupies the strip of land between Okanagan Lake and Skaha Lake, making it the natural hub of the South Okanagan's wine trade and the gateway to the Naramata Bench to the north and the Skaha Bench to the south.

Penticton · Okanagan Falls

The Skaha Bench is a rugged, elevated shelf on the east side of Skaha Lake, between Penticton and Okanagan Falls, where vineyards sit on rocky, well-drained glacial soils above the water.

Okanagan Falls · Kaleden

Okanagan Falls lies at the south end of Skaha Lake, where the valley pinches between rocky bluffs before opening toward Vaseux Lake.

Oliver

Oliver sits in the heart of the South Okanagan, a town that styles itself the Wine Capital of Canada and is surrounded by vineyards on both sides of the valley.

Oliver · Osoyoos

The Black Sage Bench runs along the east side of the valley between Oliver and Osoyoos, a broad, west-facing terrace of deep, free-draining sand laid down by glacial outwash.

Osoyoos

Osoyoos is the southern tip of the Okanagan Valley, where the valley floor meets the border and Osoyoos Lake, often described as one of Canada's warmest freshwater lakes.

Vernon · Coldstream · Armstrong · Lavington

Vernon anchors the North Okanagan, where the valley broadens into rolling ranchland and orchards around the northern arm of Okanagan Lake, Kalamalka Lake and Swan Lake.

Keremeos · Cawston · Hedley

The Similkameen Valley lies west of the South Okanagan over the Richter Pass, a narrow, dramatic corridor walled by steep mountains and carved by the Similkameen River.

Langley · Abbotsford · Chilliwack · Mission · Maple Ridge

The Fraser Valley stretches east of Vancouver along the broad floodplain of the Fraser River, hemmed in by the Coast Mountains to the north and the Cascades to the south.

Vancouver · Richmond · Burnaby · North Vancouver

Metro Vancouver has a growing set of urban wineries working out of industrial units and city warehouses, crushing fruit trucked in from the Okanagan and Similkameen, plus a few estates on the farmland of Richmond and the Fraser delta.

Duncan · Cobble Hill · Cowichan Bay · Mill Bay

The Cowichan Valley, whose name is commonly translated from the Hul'q'umi'num' as 'the warm land', is the most established wine area on Vancouver Island, spread over gentle hills and river flats around Duncan.

Victoria · Saanich · Central Saanich · North Saanich · Sidney · Brentwood Bay

The Saanich Peninsula reaches north from Victoria between Saanich Inlet and Haro Strait, a patchwork of small farms, hedgerows and sheltered coves that makes up the capital region's countryside.

Nanaimo · Cedar · Ladysmith · Parksville · Qualicum Beach

The stretch of Vancouver Island's east coast from Ladysmith through Nanaimo to Parksville and Qualicum Beach is a patchwork of small farm wineries, orchards and meaderies set between the Strait of Georgia and the island's forested spine.

Courtenay · Comox · Cumberland

The Comox Valley opens onto the Strait of Georgia beneath the Comox Glacier and the Beaufort Range, a rich farming valley where dairy, market gardens and orchards have long defined the landscape.

Campbell River

Campbell River marks the northern frontier of Vancouver Island wine, where the Strait of Georgia narrows into Discovery Passage and the coast turns wilder and wetter.

Salt Spring Island · Pender Island · Saturna Island

The southern Gulf Islands are scattered across the Salish Sea between Vancouver Island and the mainland, in the rain shadow of Vancouver Island's mountains, which makes them among the driest and sunniest places on the BC coast in summer.

Creston · Erickson · Wynndel

The Creston Valley sits in the southeastern corner of BC, where the Kootenay River spreads into broad, fertile flats between the Selkirk and Purcell ranges just north of the Idaho border.

Nelson · Castlegar · Trail

The West Kootenay is a region of deep glacial lakes, steep forested mountains and historic mining towns strung along Kootenay Lake and the Columbia River.

Cranbrook · Kimberley · Fernie

The East Kootenay runs along the Rocky Mountain Trench between the Purcells and the Rockies, high, dry and bright, with hot summer days and long, cold winters.

Kamloops · Savona

The Thompson Valley centres on Kamloops, where the North and South Thompson rivers meet among sagebrush hills, hoodoos and dry grassland benches.

Salmon Arm · Sorrento · Tappen · Blind Bay

The Shuswap wraps around the arms of Shuswap Lake northeast of the Okanagan, a greener, more forested landscape of lakeshore farms and rolling hills around Salmon Arm and Sorrento.

Lillooet

Lillooet sits deep in the Fraser Canyon, on the traditional territory of the St'át'imc, where the river cuts through arid, sun-baked terraces between the Coast Mountains and the Interior plateau.