The Wine Route The heart of B.C.’s premier wine country is found in the Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys which lie between the 49th and 50th parallels, the same latitude of the famous European wine regions of Champagne and Rheingau. But the wineries of these two B.C. valleys are famous not from that simple geographical similarity, but for the quality of wine on par with the best of the world.
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