Wine lovers who visit West Kelowna’s Quails’ Gate Winery step into a log cabin-style world filled with award-winning red, white, dessert, and specialty wines. The winery’s cheery wine tasting room offers a movie theatre view of the Stewart family’s 125-acre vineyard and Lake Okanagan. Hungry wine tasters who make an online Old Vines Restaurant & Wine Bar reservation can mix great food, friends and 100 years of winemaking tradition. The Quails’ Gate Winery Wine Shop and wine tours are rated by Okanagan Life Magazine as two of the Okanagan’s best: more reasons for every wine lover to visit the winery at least once before they buy Quails’ Gate Winery red, white, dessert, or specialty wines online. The winery’s Cellar Door Wine Club offers wine tours, wine tastings and invitations to special wine events. Food and wine lovers may try a Quails’ Gate Winery featured recipe and wine combination at home.

Quails’ Gate Winery Old Vines Restaurant & Wine Bar

• open year round
• fresh, local ingredients
• beautiful Lake Okanagan views
• lunch, light afternoon menu and after work appetizers and drinks
• reservations required: groups of 8 or more

Quails’ Gate Winery Wine Shop

• 3,500 square foot Wine Shop
• reclaimed wood flooring, hand-crafted stone fireplace
• state-of-the-art wine tasting bar
• self-rinsing wine tasting spittoons
• 180 degrees bay window view: vineyards and Lake Okanagan

Quails’ Gate Winery Cellar Door Wine Club

• quarterly selection of pre-release, new vintage and award winning wines
• discounted wine delivery with winemaker’s notes, recipe suggestions
• complimentary wine tours and tastings
• wine events and winemakers’ dinners invites
• Wine Shop, Old Vines Restaurant annual Holiday Gift Card
• wine order discounts

Quails’ Gate Winery Wine Tours

• highly rated wine tours: Okanagan Life Magazine
• vineyard strolls, winemaking facility visits, Wine Shop wine tasting

Welcome Wine Tour

• $5.00 per adult
• no charge: guests 18 and under
• reservations via groupbookings@quailsgate.com: wine tours of 8 or more

Private Stewart Family Reserve Wine Tour

• $15.00 per adult
• no charge: guests 18 and under
• reservations via groupbookings@quailsgate.com: wine tours of 8 or more

Featured Quails' Gate Winery Recipe and Wine

Lamb Sirloin

• French lentils, morel mushrooms
• local beets and truffled watercress
• 4 Lamb sirloins (or small leg roasted)
• 2 tbsp Dijon mustard
• 1 tbsp fresh rosemary (finely chopped)
• olive oil
• 2 cups de Puy lentils (rinsed)
• 2 cups chicken stock
• 1 carrot (small dice)
• ½ onion (small dice)
• 1 large cooked beet (small dice)
• 2 cups fresh morel mushrooms (washed)
• ½ cup chopped parsley
• 1 bunch watercress
• truffle oil

COOKING INSTRUCTIONS:

Cook lentils in chicken stock until just tender and strain (do not overcook). Sweat carrots and onions in a little olive oil until cooked through, add morels and sweat. Add beets and lentils with a little chicken stock to reach a ragout consistency. Season to taste with salt, pepper and fresh parsley. Marinate lamb with Dijon, rosemary and a touch of oil for 2 hours. In a sauté pan on medium high heat, sear lamb until golden on one side. Turn over and place in oven. Cook to desired doneness. Let rest before slicing. Toss watercress with some truffle oil and season with salt and pepper. Lay out a spoonful of lentil ragout in the centre of the plate. Place sliced lamb on top and arrange watercress.

Serve with Quails' Gate Winery Merlot Wine

• 2007 year red wine