Gehringer Brothers
My girlfriend and I were on vacation through Okanagan wine country. Over six days, we visited sixty wineries. You can follow our various locations with this disclaimer. That’s sixty wineries, not an exaggeration. We ended the trip with 120 bottles acquired.
I’m not going to lie, Gehringer Brothers does somewhat fall under the shadow of the larger and more extravagant Hester Creek. But I would not dismiss Gehringer Brothers in any way, and I would never visit Hester without also visiting Gehringer. I mean who would travel such a distance and skip one? So, there is no competition here. More likely, this is a shark / remora metaphor, a mutually beneficial relationship, verified by all the employees at Gehringer possessing suckermouths. In reflection, they might have been aliens…
…okay…admittedly, by that point in the day, I had ingested a lot of alcohol, so the last observation may not have been accurate. Regardless if the staff were secretly smuggling their pre-metamorphosis offspring in bottles of wine in hopes of an eventual global takeover via our fascination with fermented grape juice, the winery is not bad to look at, a traditional front of house sporting the requisite tasting bar and various bottles spackling the walls. Though I will say my specific host was one of the better encountered this day, and that says a lot. It was packed when we arrived, but the host still made time, and by the end of the experience, we picked up a few bottles, though most were smaller late harvest desert wines. Don’t knock it, by the end of this trip, I got to love these, as well as the ports, ice-wines and botrytized wines. The cabernet franc late harvest was a favorite and one that will find a permanent place in my collection. I also liked the displayed where they highlighted the history of their labels.
Gehringer Brothers is another great winery in a great region, and with its proximity to Hester Creek, it’s one you dare not miss. Just keep a watchful eye for those ovipositors.