The Morning Claret

The Morning Claret

Haywire is Okanagan's free form gem

Haywire produce some of Canada's very best orange wines, not bad for what started as a retirement project.

Simon J Woolf
Apr 08, 2018
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Every week, Simon selects an orange wine (a white wine made with extended skin contact) that grabbed his attention. View the whole series here.   

Haywire wines at Raw Fair London 2018

When her husband Steve Lornie decided to build a winery in Okanagan, in 2011, Christine Coletta imagined a small retirement project for the couple to enjoy. Working 1,000 miles away at the time, she wasn't around to see the project take shape. Weeks later, she realised Lornie had rather grander ideas - instead of a modest cellar, a state of the art winery complex had sprung up.

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