LaStella Winery – Osoyoos, BC Okanagan Winery

LaStella was created to capture our vision of la dolce vita: fine food, wonderful wine, great music, and the good things in life.

At LaStella, we celebrate the sun that ripens our grapes and brings warmth to our life, and we share that with everyone who visits us. LaStella is situated at Osoyoos Lake in the sunny South Okanagan valley of beautiful British Columbia. Here our vineyards produce great fruit and we craft them into such proprietary wines as Allegretto, Vivace and Maestoso. Each wine has its own story — and to convey this unique story we name our wines after Italian musical notes.

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Gorgeous, succulent and chewy. Opulent fruit with superb purity and attractive earthy development. Impressive, clearly carefully selected fruit. (RH) 14.4% Drink 2015-2025 (note from winery: single highest score of the entire comprehensive tasting of Cross Canada wines.)

Jancis Robinson & Richard Hemming | Purple Pages

FEATURE WINES

2018 Vivace Pinot Grigio
2018 Moscato D’ Osoyoos
New Release

2017 Fortissimo

Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Sangiovese

Challenge your Palate, Reviews

Challenge your Palate VOL 1. Sev is from the North

General

Offal – Game – Espressivo

General, Recipes

Leggiero, light, graceful, elegant, a white wine of subtlety.

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Lately on Instagram

Don’t you think Wade is lucky to work outside wh

Don’t you think Wade is lucky to work outside when Mother Nature gives us such a beautiful day? #pruning #merlot #okanaganwine #whataview #beautifulbc #ladolcevita

Post harvest work includes in house composting of

Post harvest work includes in house composting of pomace, stems and farm animal droppings. Keeping it beyond organic. #sustainable #bcwine

Perks of being part of our small knit family of wi

Perks of being part of our small knit family of wine lovers. Harvest dinner with all the good eats and libations. #bcwine #wineclub

Clean pristine and spectacular flavors and numbers

Clean pristine and spectacular flavors and numbers on this year’s old vine Chardonnay destined for a long concrete ferment and aging. Organic grape growing as always. Leggiero 2.0 will be wicked. #bcwine

Mighty aromatic and delicious moscato bianco aka p

Mighty aromatic and delicious moscato bianco aka petit grains clone. Thnx to our great team lead by Jody and kevan we are well on our way to another dream harvest. Clean pristine and homogenous harvest. #bcwine #okanagan #winecountry #vineyardlife

And it begins! Another harvest is underway. Moscat

And it begins! Another harvest is underway. Moscato first and Grigio soon after. Over at sister winery @levieuxpin harvest has started too with the first of old vines Sauvignon blanc. Here is to an uneventful Indian summer. Wishing all our colleagues a terrific haul ahead.

Talk about arriving for a wine tasting in style. O

Talk about arriving for a wine tasting in style. Our dock on the Osoyoos lake a mere 200 yards from the tasting room has been welcoming visitors by air and water. #bcwine #okanagan #osoyoos #winecountry #floatplane

Approaching summer solstice. We live for the late

Approaching summer solstice. We live for the late sunsets like this one. We think we are in one of the best places in earth. Photos captured by @pintesev from our own rooted merlot vineyard in south #Osoyoos: stagg’s.

Wade doing his magic, waxing poetics and making ev

Wade doing his magic, waxing poetics and making everyone feel welcome and at home. sommelier by trade and now tasting room host/vineyard whisperer, he is the perfect person to know for all your wine questions. An avid biker, fisherman and beer enthusiast not to mention passionate about organic and sustainable viticulture practices, wade is basically a rockstar.

View from the office. Minus some minor damage from

View from the office. Minus some minor damage from the cold winter (see patchy area in second picture), all is well and we are on track for another great harvest.

Cycle of life. Never easy to lose mature old vines

Cycle of life. Never easy to lose mature old vines. Bittercold winter of 18/19 took a few of our Sangiovese vines. It is challenging to grow grape varieties not best suited to Canadian winters, but we will not give up and continue to cultivate and care for Sangiovese for it brings soooooo much to our wines. Sangiovese helps with acid correction of our merlot/can blends, not to mention lowering the alcohol, adding complex bing cherry and floral notes and of course that wonderful rusticity and front of the palate tannins. All is not lost. Some secondaries are pushing and we may be able to save a few of them. The problem was not just Sangiovese. Many varieties in many of our colleagues vineyrds took some damage. Apricots too! There will be a definite shortage of Apricots this year. Our two very old mature trees have produced zero fruit this year. Last time this happened was the disaster oud winter of 08/09.

Tears of joy. Sangiovese Grosso waking up from win

Tears of joy. Sangiovese Grosso waking up from winter slumber. Here is to a terrific growing season ahead.

Spring 🌱🌷🌸🌼

Look at that color! The perfect shade of pink with

Look at that color! The perfect shade of pink with a hint of salmon. The juice is pretty amazing too. Ever so slightly off dry on the attack but progresses to a dry finish. Perfect balance of tart and ripe fruit. #springintheglass #bcwine #okanagan

Liquid lunch for one. This is how @_wadem does it.

Liquid lunch for one. This is how @_wadem does it. Civilized vineyard life. #bcwine #vineyardlife

Taking 15,30 and 60cm deep soil samples in weak an