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or NoHappy to share the latest issue of Canada monopoly magazine, TASTE who made a huge focus on Quail's Gate Winery
http://www.bcliquorstores.com/sites/default/files/flipbook/tastemagazine/2018/Summer/
Source: Canadian Business, Quail's Gate Winery: Canada's Best Managed Companies 2017
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On 200 acres of lush farmland, with 2,000 feet of shoreline on Okanagan Lake, sits the Stewart family homestead. “Growing up there was like endless summers,” recalls Tony Stewart. “Only, during the day, they made us work.”
In the 1960s, when the Stewarts’ horticulturalist patriarch realized the future of B.C. business was in wine, the family planted grapes. Tony’s brother—who still lives on-site in the family home—began Quails’ Gate Winery in 1989. Tony partnered with him three years later, as did two sisters. These days, children, nieces and spouses so fill the staff roster that they’ve earned a nickname: “We call the new generation G3s,” says Stewart.
Needless to say, Quails’ Gate is family-owned, an estate winery focused on producing quality premium wines (primarily Pinot Noir and Chardonnay). Seventy full-time and 200 seasonal employees make, bottle and sell 70,000 cases of fine wine to Canadians (and a few U.S. buyers). At one of the highest price points in the Okanagan, Quails’ Gate wine is not cheap, admits Stewart, but the product has integrity. “In this business, you have to make a quality call every time. These decisions are often based on cost, but we don’t do that.” Case in point: In 2010, when Stewart’s team determined the year’s crop “lacked intensity,” the $50 reserve was downgraded to $25. “Always make the quality move, I tell the staff,” he says. “Don’t look at the dollar.”
That might seem a rare sentiment from a for-profit business, and it’s one Stewart credits to Quails’ Gate’s family roots. “My mother always taught us to be good hosts and make people comfortable here.” This applies to visitors—over 250,000 of them visit the Kelowna property annually—but also to staff, which include both full-time lifers and students on quick summer stopovers. “We guarantee we’ll invest in you, no matter how long you’re here,” says Stewart. “Even if you’re an accountant, we want you to learn and be passionate about wine.”
How do you get your winery staff to be even bigger on wine? Quails’ Gate offers all the usual perks—profit-sharing, ample benefits—but tops them up with pig roasts, fill-up-your-cellar programs and Wine Fridays. For 20 years and counting, each and every Friday at 4 p.m., staff members blindly share a bottle of wine from another producer and compare notes. Beyond the buzz, employees become wine aficionados eager to learn more, which the company nurtures by offering complementary sommelier courses. The policy has been known to spoil other wineries for employees—including Stewart’s son, who just finished a winemaking program in New Zealand. “He’ll work outside the family business for a few years,” Stewart says, “then we suspect he’ll be back.”
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Check out this video on Vimeo to see what a harvest day is like at Quails Gate Estate Winery, which will also give you a glimpse into the 2016 vintage of the Okanagan wine region in Canada.
Source: Quails' Gate 2016 Harvest from Lindsay Kelm on Vimeo.
Cuvees is delighted to be the wine sponsor of The 3rd Annual Transpacific Entrepreneurial Joint Canadian Chamber of Hong Kong - Hong Kong-Canada Business Association Conference 2016 that was held yesterday at the HKTDC SME Centre.
Four wines selected from Okanagan and Ontario were served to over 100 conference attendees including Canadian government officials, representatives of business associations and agencies and a business group currently in Hong Kong on a market visit.
Entrepreneurs and different industries and companies of different sizes including the micro and small enterprises, Canadian companies in Hong Kong, large and small, all guests got together to enjoy an evening with like-minded members from CanChamHK and HKCBA.
If you are interested in these wines, find out more with the links below:
Last Friday, Cuvees took part in a consumer sale event co-organised by the Consulate-General of Canada in Hong Kong & Macao and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. It appears to be the first government-funded initiative aimed to raise the Canadian profile and promote the country's alcoholic beverages to the local drinking community. Approximately 150 guests and visitors turned up for the event for a bit of the tasting, concurrently celebrating the opening of CanCham's new office location in Wanchai. We were very glad to hear from different groups including corporate clients, foodservice buyers, wine educators and consumers said that they really enjoyed the event and the tasting was great.
Let me recapitulate the wines that we had showcased at the tasting:
