Every thread this season has pulled finally ties together in a single glass of wine. The same rain-shadow heat that broke Canadian temperature records back in episode eleven turns out to be exactly what serious winemakers spend careers chasing — and it took a small-town mayor's curious experiment, two Dutch immigrants' leap of faith, and three independent experts who all, against conventional wisdom, pointed toward the same unlikely valley. This episode traces Fort Berens and Cliff and Gorge Vineyards from a mayor's test planting to an officially recognized BC wine region, and explains, properly, why Lillooet's punishing extremes turn out to be a genuine winemaking gift.

🎙️ Canuckly S02E17 — "Wine in the Desert"

• Cold Open — Full Circle Back to 43.1°C
• A Mayor's Experiment: The Lillooet Grape Project
• Two Dutch Careers, Traded for a Vineyard
• A Name Borrowed from a Fort That Never Stood
• Planting Vines, and Waiting
• Why the Science Actually Works
• An Olympic Boost & a Decade of Awards
• Becoming an Official Wine Region (2018)
• A Second Winery, and a Cowboy Past
• A Label With a Camel on It
• A Neighbourhood Named for Hops
• Visiting Fort Berens & Cliff and Gorge
• The Full Circle

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