“Give her some of that liquid double gold,” Neelam Dhaliwal tells her younger sister. Manpreet Dhaliwal picks up a bottle of a Kismet Estate Winery 2023 vintage, whose nickname doesn’t come solely from the yellow label or the wine the color of dry hay. This bright, cheerful white won a double gold at the All Canadian Wine Awards. Impressive, considering that it was one of the first wines the then-26-year-old Manpreet crafted when she took over as winemaker of her family’s business.
Manpreet Dhaliwal of Kismet.
But nothing in this wine region is exactly standard. For one, we’re in Canada—“Canada’s only desert,” I hear over and over again.
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