Desert Hills Estate Winery

Desert Hills Estate Winery is the dream child of three brother who immigrated to Canada with a dream. There dream was to not only open a successful business to support their families but to build the business into a family.

The brothers started their journey in the Okanagan working as simple farmers tending to the former apple orchards that once blanketed the valley. One day while eating lunch next to the road they overlooked the property across the street and noticed how beautiful the sun reflected off the property, like at simmering pool of water. The main attraction of their eyes was one beautiful pristine apple tree, standing out among the orchard, like a beautiful queen overlooking her kingdom. The brother proclaimed that that property would be theirs and that would be where they would start their journey.

Eventually after saving some money, they pooled all their hard-earned funds together and managed to purchase the property they had admired…Their first dream had come true.

The brothers continued to farm the property setting up residence on the property to closely manage their crop and started to raise their families on the property they love so much but they noticed that their passion for apples had slowly started to change towards wines and the grapes that produced them having tried some early Okanagan wines.

On a move of pure passion, they decided to change from being apple farmers to grape growers. They ripped up the apple trees, leaving their prized queen tree as a reminder of where they came from, and planted their first varietal Syrah.

At this time, the brothers were just farmers and decided to just sell grapes to the local producers they enjoyed so much, taking care and attention to make sure they grapes they produced made the best wine.