I’ve included the details about our self-guided wine tour below; So you can easily create your own wine adventure. I organized this by calling each of the wineries to book tastings, then driving my friends between each one. This was all booked at the last minute, but even the places that didn’t have any bookings available found ways to fit us in.

You don’t need to go with a tour group to try BC wines. We managed to set up a fun wine tasting adventure with very little effort.

In addition to the drinks, the lovely shop at Vista d’oro sells farm produce, as well as jams and chutneys. I LOVED their raspberry, merlot and peppercorn jam.

Pizzams

If you need to soak up the wine/cider, there is a food truck parked at next to the shop that serves pizzams. These are a bit like pizzas, but rather than tomato sauce, they use their fantastic artisanal jams along with decent cheese and fresh toppings. We tried fig & walnut wine jam with prosciutto and blue cheese. Our friends also ordered the tomato and chili jam with chorizo and peppercorn goat gouda. Each pizzam was topped with salad and edible flowers from the farm. They were so, so good!

They can provide small laminated cards with tasting notes, so this works really well if they can’t fit you in for an official tasting. I loved that they were set up to be accommodating for last minute drop-ins like us. They sell light snacks (and you are welcome to bring your own food to the picnic area.)

Dotty the puppy loved Township 7 as there were a few groups of ladies who lavished her with attention…and she could walk between the vines and sniff everything.

Festina Lente Estate Winery and Meadery

Location: 21113 16 Ave, Langley, BC (opposite Township 7)
Phone: 604-510-2336
Website: https://www.festinalente.ca/
Cost for tasting: $10

Plus, if you visit, you’ll get to meet their honey bear.

For their wine tastings, you get to choose 4 different meads. The one that Marc and I loved best was their spiced mead. It seemed like it would be a perfect drink for Christmas.

Dogs are VERY welcome here! They even gave dotty a flight of doggy treats. All the staff popped out to give her some pets so they showed that this is a great spot to visit with your furry friends.

Pop up Pizza

Pizza goes so well with wine! We loved the pizzas for sale at Festine Lente. There were 7 tasty sounding 10″ pizzas for $15 each. They kept forgetting us (or giving our pizza to other tables…) but we received all our orders eventually. It was worth the wait in the end.

Location: 3033 232 St, Langley, BC V2Z 3A8
Phone:  604-539-9463
Website: www.backyardvineyards.ca
Cost for tasting: $10-$15 Per Person

Each guest gets to choose 4 wines to taste. We booked the $10 tour, but they allowed each of us to try one of the pricier wines as well. Marc and I bought several bottles here, but my favourite was the sparkling rose.

We all really like the atmosphere here, so we bought an extra glass of vino after the tasting so we could stay for longer drinking in the picnic area.

The picnic area feels like an English pub garden. If you are from the UK and miss drinking in pretty pub gardens, you will love it. They have sun shades too so us light skinned folk could avoid turning as pink as their rose wines.

Although we didn’t have an official tasting at Chaberton winery, this was my favourite place out of the five vineyards to chill out and chat.

Visit all the Wineries in Langley!

In the end I am a bit sad that it took us so long to visit these wineries that are so close to Vancouver! We always love road trips out to the Okanagan; But we are also really lucky to have such great wine so near home! What do you think? If you visit Vancouver or BC, do you like the idea of exploring the local vineyards?

Have you visited any of these Langley Wineries? I’d love to hear what you thought about them too! Or, if you want to visit, you can click on the pins below to save this for later.