British Columbia’s white wines continue to shine with precision, texture, and regional character. The 2022 and 2023 vintages, shaped by cooler harvests and evolving winemaking, are delivering brilliant acidity, restraint, and depth.
Below is a curated list of top-tier BC white wines—from iconic Chardonnays to unexpected gems like Grüner Veltliner. Each wine reflects exceptional quality, site expression, and age-worthiness.
This post updates our 2024 edition with the newest releases and Platinum winners.
🥇 Quails’ Gate Rosemary’s Block Chardonnay 2022
Platinum – WineAlign Nationals 2025
This single-block Chardonnay is one of the Okanagan’s finest. Grown on the Boucherie Bench, it delivers a complex interplay of ripe orchard fruit, flinty minerality, and subtle oak spice. Aged in French oak with partial malolactic fermentation, this is a Burgundian-style Chardonnay with structure and finesse.
🛒 Quails’ Gate Winery
🍋 Coolshanagh Chardonnay 2022
An Old World–inspired Chardonnay grown in fractured limestone and calcium carbonate soils above Naramata. No new oak, long lees contact, and native fermentations yield vibrant citrus, chalky minerality, and textural elegance. A cerebral white wine for the Burgundy-leaning palate.
🛒 Coolshanagh
✨ Meyer Family Vineyards McLean Creek Road Chardonnay 2022
From the home vineyard in Okanagan Falls, this wine is always a reference point for BC Chardonnay. The 2022 vintage is focused and bright, with lemon curd, hazelnut, and wet stone notes. A touch of oak and malolactic fermentation give depth without weight.
🛒 Meyer Family Vineyards
🌿 Culmina “Unicus” Grüner Veltliner 2022
New Addition
Grown on the stony slopes of Margaret’s Bench in the Golden Mile Bench sub-GI, this is Canada’s original—and still benchmark—Grüner Veltliner. The 2022 vintage delivers lime zest, white peach, flint, and white pepper with vibrant acidity and food-friendly texture. Unicus is a brilliant alternative to Chardonnay or Sauvignon Blanc for the adventurous palate.
🛒 Culmina Family Estate Winery
🍏 Tantalus Riesling 2022
Tantalus continues to lead in BC Riesling with its dry, age-worthy, mineral style. The 2022 vintage is beautifully taut and expressive, with Granny Smith apple, lime pith, and saline minerality. One of the province’s most consistently cellar-worthy whites.
🛒 Tantalus Vineyards
🧂 CheckMate Queen Taken Chardonnay 2021
A single-vineyard wine from Jagged Rock Vineyard on the Black Sage Bench. Fermented in Burgundian barrels with extended lees aging, this Chardonnay brings citrus oil, roasted almond, and flint, with luxurious texture. An opulent, age-worthy white at the highest end of the BC scale.
🛒 CheckMate Artisanal Winery
🌸 Little Farm Mulberry Tree Vineyard Riesling 2022
From the Similkameen Valley, this organically farmed, dry Riesling shows blossom, citrus peel, and crunchy acidity. Fermented wild and unfined, it’s a natural-style wine with incredible energy and mineral length.
🛒 Little Farm Winery
🌾 Synchromesh Storm Haven Riesling 2022
A single-vineyard expression from Okanagan Falls that balances ripeness with electric acidity. Slightly off-dry but finely balanced with apricot, lime cordial, and crushed rock. One of BC’s most age-worthy Rieslings.
🛒 Synchromesh Wines
✍️ Final Thoughts
The diversity and depth of BC’s white wines continue to impress—from Chardonnays that rival Burgundy to Rieslings with laser precision, and unusual varieties like Grüner Veltliner that push boundaries.
As always, this list is curated with tasting experience and site pedigree in mind, and all wines are available in limited quantities. Let me know what you’re drinking, and watch for more under-the-radar updates throughout the season.
Note: Julian did the tasting and digging—ChatGPT tidied things up behind the scenes 😉