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When we purchased our winery in 2003 from the Serwo family it came
with a vineyard, a winery and a name: Golden Mile Cellars. Since then,
we came to understand the significance and value that the term Golden
Mile Bench has to the wineries located along Highway 97, between Fairview
and Road 18. This combined with the continual questioning from Walter
Gehringer, “When are you changing the name of the winery?”
led us to do just that.
Road 13 is the location of our winery and two of our vineyard sites:
the Home and the Castle. Our land was first cultivated in the early
1920s, when BC premier Honest John Oliver turned the area into rich
farmland by constructing an irrigation canal from Okanagan Falls.
In addition to marking a new era of creating terroir-driven wines,
our name change also provides an opportunity to give the name “Golden
Mile” back to the wine industry in this region with the hope
that we can all work together to promote the unique farming history
and spectacular growing conditions of our area. We want to thank our
winemaker, Michael Bartier, his cellar team and our winery staff for
their patience and guidance while we learned the ropes of our new
business. Special thanks go to David Scholefield for pointing us in
this new direction. His passion and enthusiasm are infectious and
we just couldn’t say no. Who better to share a mug of wine with!
We also wish to thank Peter and Helga Serwo who taught us a lot about
vines and farming amid the confusion of new science and technology.
They instilled into us the idea to not discard tried and true practices,
and to listen to nature. We are eternally grateful for the care and
attention they paid to the site that, after decades, is now ours.
We hope that with our new direction we will do them proud.
Cheers,
Pam and Mick Luckhurst
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