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Kamloops: The gateway to wine country
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are not all about the Okanagan anymore. The Thompson-Shuswap is the wine trail less traveled and Kamloops is ideally situated to be an important gateway to wine country including but not exclusive to Kamloops and the Shuswap Lake area. As a person with a lifelong entrepreneurial approach to life and a wine and culinary enthusiast, it was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up. People in Kamloops were very excited at the prospect of having a winery tour company that is locally based and both the initial response and support has been really fantastic.” Maatje and her Tastefull Excursions is a full-service wine touring company that take you and your guests on your choice of wine tasting excursions in a luxurious 11 passenger Mercedes Benz Sprinter. So far the half day, four hour tour to local wineries - Harpers Trail and Privato with a picnic or restaurant lunch option is the most popular. Also available are full day, eight hour tours to the Shuswap, Okanagan Lake Country or west on the new tour “Gold Rush Trail”. Tour details can be found listed on the website. TasteFull Excursions just made the Destination BC summer list of new tourism activities in British Columbia and received its first review (five out of five) on the new Trip Advisor listing from a couple whose trip here for a wine tour was their first time ever in B.C.! “I feel incredibly Karen Robinson, Certified Bodywork Practitioner
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blessed at this stage in my life to be doing this,” she continues. “I am so happy to be living in Kamloops and to be helping to promote our local wineries. I am in the privileged position to help promote the wineries and spread the word about the great wines being produced here!” - continued on page 2
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Downtown Kamloops is no stranger to great, local wines. Some of our downtown restaurants have lovingly stocked and tantalized our taste buds with an intriguing array of local wines almost as long as they have been available for public consumption. I remember my first encounter with a locally crafted wine, having it poured, loving it and being utterly shocked at its origin, “What do you mean this is from Kamloops, it’s delicious!” That first pour started a love affair with our Kamloops and area wineries and the products they make. Did you know that in the ThompsonShuswap area that there are 12 licensed wineries, ones that don’t just make wine, but make award winning wines? One woman that definitely knows this and is a wealth of information on the subject is Maatje (Maacha) Stamp-Vincent from TasteFull Excursions, the Kamloops-based wine tour company that started this year. Maatje and her husband are semi-recent transplants from Terrace. Upon their move to Kamloops last August, they discovered the local wine scene and TasteFull Excursions was born. “TasteFull Excursions seemed like a natural fit as a response to the opening of tasting rooms last fall at Privato and Harpers Trail and no tour companies based here” explained Maatje. “Winery tours
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