Rollingdale had a great weekend up at the Sun Peaks Icewine Festival 2010! Kristy, the top bartender at the Okanagan Grand Hotel created a classy icewine cocktail called the Rollingdale Raspberry. You can make this cocktail at home or soon you can enjoy a glass at the Okanagan Grand Hotel, where it will be available on the menu.
Stemware: Champagne Flute
Ingredients:
1 oz 2007 Rollingdale Certified Organic Pinot Noir Icewine
1/2 oz Raspberry Vodka
1/4 oz Hibiscus Syrup (available at specialty food stores)
Pour into a Champagne Flute
Top off with a dry sparkling wine
Garnish with a candied Hibiscus Flower

The perfect romantic icewine cocktail for Valentines Day! 

Today people are very concerned with how their produce is grown.  What about the wine that is paired with carefully selected goods in the kitchen?  There aren't too many organic wine growers and wine makers in Canada, but the demand for organic wine is rising.  The rewards for searching out these wines are tasted in the glass and felt in the body.  To learn more about Canadian organic wines check out this article in the Vancouver Sun:/assets/client/file/Organic%20Wines,%20Vancouver%20Sun%202010.pdf

Below is a photo of one of Rollingdale's certified organic vineyards in West Kelowna.  Notice all of the life in the vineyard, it is home to many plants and animals because it is chemical free.  Also, the yellow ribbon that runs down every row is a pest control method, it is large fly tape to catch leaf hoppers.  This photo was taken in September 2009.