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Blasted Church Vineyards

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Appellation
  
Okanagan Valley

Cases/yr
  
10,000

Founded
  
2002

Parent company
  
Privately Owned

Known for
  
Merlot & Pinot Gris

First vintage
  
2002

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Location
  
Okanagan Falls, British Columbia, Canada

Key people
  
Evelyn & Chris Campbell (Proprietors), Richard Kanazawa (Winemaker), Morton Serbon (Vineyard Manager)

Profiles

Blasted Church Vineyards, located in Okanagan Falls, British Columbia is a Canadian Winery. Situated in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley, Blasted Church produces over 10,000 cases of wine per year.

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History

In 2002, Proprietors Evelyn & Chris Campbell bought the 2 year old 17-hectare Prpich Hills Winery on the road between Okanagan Falls and Penticton. The property once housed a wooden church. In 1929, the church was dismantled, via a controlled dynamite explosion which loosened the nails, and reassembled in the center of Okanagan Falls where it now stands. The transformation of Prpich Hills to Blasted Church started with creative label redesigns by Vancouver designer Bernie Hadley-Beauregard of Brandever.

In 2004, Blasted Church became the first Okanagan vintners to produce all of their wines with screw-top bottle caps.

Winemaker

Blasted Church's first winemaker, Frank Supernak, died unexpectedly during the first harvest, prompting many other local vintners to assist the Campbell family in completing the production of finished wine. The images of these winemakers now adorn the bottle labels at Blasted Church The current winemaker is Langley, British Columbia native Richard Kanazawa who developed his viticulture skills at Australia's Simon Gilbert Wines.

References

Blasted Church Vineyards Wikipedia