Artisan Distilling - 2008

They are artisan distillers - making spirits out of everything from apples and plums to star anise and wormwood.
Next time you visit a local liquor store pick up a bottle of Eau-de-Vie or Absinthe, you might find a local name on it.

Getting into the SPIRITS - 2008

"Is it a fruit? A flower? An herb? Does it grow locally?"

Absinthe Arrives in the Okanagan - 2008

The Green Fairy is spreading her wings in the Okanagan...

Spirit of the Okanagan - 2008

Diehard lover of Eau-de-Vie and Grappa Frank Deiter has succeeded where others have failed.

WORLD SPIRITS AWARDS 2008

World-Spirits 2008 at the GAST trade fair in Klagenfurt:
The “Who’s Who” of the world’s best spirits!

spiritsandcocktails.com-Mixologist Jamie Boudreau will be your bartender today - 2008

Taboo Or Not Taboo…
That is the question.
Recently Canada has been blessed by a local distiller creating his own artisanal absinthe.

This B.C Absinthe is the real thing

But the only "maddening" thing about it is the bureaucracy governing Canada's liquor trade.

Fruit Brandies of the Okanagan

Drink local - Celebrating western canadian producers.

By Michael Botner

Uncorked

The Green Muse turns the mind to pleasure.

Taboo Absinthe-The Art Of Drink

The history of Absinthe is long and convoluted. There is plenty of misinformation about the effects of Absinthe, not
to mention the laws regarding it. Because of all this misinformation, Absinthe has gained a reputation as a sinister spirit
with psychoactive properties. The truth is much different.

-By Darcy O'Neil

Drink of the Week A Q U A V I T U S

Why did the world's biggest producer of aquavit pull the plug on B.C., leaving thousands of Danes; and
other lovers of curried herring and duck with red cabbage and rémoulade; high and dry?

- By Jurgen Gothe

BC SPIRITS - It's about time!

Thanks to the rise of icewine, dessert wines have become a fixture in British Columbia's culinary culture.
But as far as Grappa or other Spirits are concerned, until recently, it wasn't possible to sip on the locally
produced salute to a hollowed European tradition.

- By Tim Pawsey

WORLD SPIRITS AWARDS 2007, Klagenfurt-Austria

Another hudge success for Okanagan Spirits at the World Spirits Award & Festival - Gast Trade Fair
Klagenfurt- Austria. The festival for the best distilleries in the world for all spirits -March 5,2007.

- Praises Wolfram Ortner

RIPE OPPORTUNITY

Where winemakes see waste,Okanagan Spirits' Frank Deiter sees money.The story of a former forester who's turning rotten fruit into award winning spirits.

-By Christina Burridge

Distillers In High Spirits

Who could resist all that georgous fruit "asks Frank Deiter" the forester turned distiller whose Okanagan Spirits are commanding international recognition.

-By Michael Botner

INQUIRING MINDS - Crab Apple eau de Vie, anyone?

The phone rings only once and Frank Deiter is right on it. “Are you somewhere you can talk?” I ask. I
have to check a couple of points about his latest gold metal winners.

- By Jurgen Gothe