Spierhead Winery turned these grapes into one of the year's best rieslings.

1. BS
David Scholefield is one of Canada's foremost wine educators and personalities. Michael Bartier (recently of Road 13) is one of the Okanagan's top winemakers. When these two met it was either going to be a peculiar buddy movie or the start of a great new partnership. Luckily, it's the latter.
BOTTLE TO TRY: 2010 BS Rosé, $18

2. McWatters Collection
Harry McWatters founded Sumac Ridge in 1980, when most Okanagan wine was akin to Sun-Rype mixed with vodka. The winery went on to blaze numerous trails and was eventually snapped up by industry giant Vincor in 2000. McWatters "retired" in 2008—this new project is what he's been doing instead of golf.
BOTTLE TO TRY: 2007 Meritage, $25

3. SpierHead
Unlike many of the other new wineries, this is a full-blown operation with vineyards and a tasting room on Spiers Road, just nine kilometres from downtown Kelowna. Ironically, the fruit for its Bordeaux reds will come from Harry McWatters's legendary Black Sage Vineyard until its own grapes mature, while the whites are mostly estate grown.
BOTTLE TO TRY: 2010 Riesling, $22

4. Young & Wyse
No, the name's not a boast; it's a collaboration between partners Michelle Young and Stephen Wyse—and if that last name sounds familiar it's because the Wyse family owns and runs the esteemed Burrowing Owl. And Stephen's familial experience shows: for a new winery this inaugural offering shows amazing maturity.
BOTTLE TO TRY: 2010 Amber, $20

5. Serendipity
From its enviable location on the famed Naramata Bench, this new venture released its first vintage this spring. In 2005, former lawyer Judy Kingston was looking for a retirement property and ended up buying an apple and cherry orchard. It's now morphed into a winery that produces high-end pinot noir and Bordeaux blends. Talk about serendipity.
BOTTLE TO TRY: 2008 Serenata, $40

6. Baillie-Grohman
Calgarians Bob Johnson and Petra Flaa are in the "far east" Okanagan, or as it's more commonly called, Creston, heretofore a town more associated with beer (Kokanee) than fine wine. But these pioneers are convinced that the area has everything in place to make it Canada's next great wine region and they've enlisted winemaker Dan Barker, of New Zealand's Moana Park, to help make that a reality.
BOTTLE TO TRY: 2009 Pinot Gris, $22 wl