The Costs of Youth, The Price of Quality: Building BCs Wine Industry
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The Wine Doctor - Dr. Neil Pollock
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Le Vieux Pin - Where Terroir is Absolute
BC Wine Trails
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Recipe for Success -
BC Wine Trails, Spring 2009
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Planning a wine country adventure? He's another great valley for you. -
By Bruce Shoenfeld
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Stalking vineyard enemy No. 1
By Alexandra Gill - The Globe and Mail

Vineyard enemy No. 1 is the European starling, a non-native bird that travels in flocks of thousands. During harvest, they descend in doomsday-like clouds to feast on the fast-ripening grapes that are just now reaching their full sugar potential for making wine.

Falcons are the best way to control the starlings because they're natural predators,' says Erich Jaster, vineyard foreman at Le Vieux Pin (and Lastella), a boutique winery in the South Okanagan now on its fourth vintage.

In Le Vieux Pin's first year, vineyard manager Harold Gaudy tried using cannons, but says the noise pollution weakened the nearby plants.

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Le Vieux Pin Joins Urban Diner
We warmly welcome the latest exceptional BC winery to join the Urban Diner community, Le Vieux Pin
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THE INTOXICATING OF TERRY DAVID MULLIGAN
LOOK Magazine 2008

'The wines by Jeff Martin of La Frenz (Penticton) are proud, outspoken, gifted, and the best-kept secret in all of Canada could be Oliver's Le Vieux Pin a classy winery with world-class wines.'