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Burrowing Owl Estate Winery

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in British Columbia

Wyse family estate winery in Oliver, BC, making VQA Okanagan wines from 210 acres of its own vineyards; sold direct from the winery and through wine agents and private wine shops across Canada.

Oliver, BC CA · www.burrowingowlwine.ca

97.3

Family-owned BC corporation that grows, makes, and bottles its wine on its own South Okanagan estate. Ownership rests on the vendor's own statements; the BC registry confirms the company but not its shareholders.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The legal entity is Burrowing Owl Vineyards Ltd., an active BC corporation in OrgBook BC (BC0958713), and Corporations Canada returns zero results, so it is provincial. The vendor describes itself as a family-owned winery founded by Jim Wyse with son Chris Wyse as president and daughter Kerri Wyse-McNolty as vice president. Shareholder and director records in the BC Registry could not be fetched, and no press, Wikipedia, or CANADA List entry corroborates the family ownership, so it stays reported.

Manufacturing

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The wine is fermented, aged, and bottled at the gravity-flow winery and underground cellars on the estate at 500 Burrowing Owl Place, Oliver, BC, completed in 1998 and expanded in 2005. The wines carry BC VQA designation, which requires BC grapes and BC production, but no regulator page was fetched to confirm the VQA listing.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Single-site business: winery, wine shop, restaurant, and guest house all sit on the Oliver estate, the executive offices are in the same building, and hiring is for on-site roles in Oliver. No employee count or LinkedIn check was possible.

Inputs

82.0 inferred

CA 80% · EU 10% · US 10%

All grapes come from the 210 acres of vineyards the winery owns in Oliver, Osoyoos, and Keremeos, so the dominant input is Canadian. The origin of barrels, glass, and closures is not published; the small EU and US shares are an estimate for oak cooperage and packaging typical of an Okanagan estate winery.

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