LULU of a wineey

LULU of a wine...get ready to buckle down folks, Vancouver they say, is in for some serious weather. If you're going to be stuck in the house, be stuck in the house with wine, we all ways say.

We found this Richmond winery down the road from Barry's Bait and Tackle. So one hopes there's a selection to go with your poisson-de-jour. We recommend the Chardonnay.

At one time, Lulu Island was known as Blossom Winery. Blossom was well renowned for it’s quality fruit wines and icewines throughout North America, as well as Asia. But our wine maker wanted more, he wanted to apply his talents towards making table wines! So Blossom underwent a transformation. We built a new 7 million dollar facility just outside of Richmond and changed our name to Lulu Island Winery, in honour of the land we built our winery on. The island of Richmond, just south of Vancouver, BC was once named Lulu Island. It is rumoured that the name Lulu came from the mistress of a great Duke who first pioneered this land. That of course caused a huge scandal and the name had to be changed to what we now know as Richmond.

Thanks to Mike and Heather at the winery for the photos.