New Release of Veranda Beach Vineyard Cottages Offers Rare Opportunity to Live in a Working Vineyard

Lakeside Vineyard Cottages Combine Country Cottage Living with the Flavour of the Mediterranean

Only fifteen minutes from the Washington State-British Columbia border crossing at Osoyoos and Oroville, nostalgic laid-back lakeside living can be found with the first release of Lakeside Vineyard Cottages. Sweeping views of Lake Osoyoos, the beach and mountains combine with a cottage within a working vineyard.

A limited release this summer of 28 Vineyard Cottages at Veranda Beach, with prices starting in the $500,000 range, offer a rare opportunity to own a cottage in a farm setting surrounded by vineyards planted with Barbera grapes, a well-known 13th-century grape variety from Monferrato in Piedmont, Italy.

Spring 2008 saw the first plantings of the Veranda Beach Vineyard, which consists of more than 5,000 Barbera grapevines. It is projected that, once fully planted, the Veranda Vineyards could be in excess of 100 acres. The vines will produce high-end, sought-after bottles of wines in the coming years, which is not a stretch considering the internationally recognized estate wineries a few miles north across the border in Canada's thriving South Okanagan wine belt. Veranda Beach Lakeside Vineyard Cottage owners will enjoy exclusive invitations to vintner dinners, barrel tastings, wine clubs, harvest crushes and other wine-centered special events.

This is one of my favorite sites just sitting on that big porch with the big screens. Takes me back to my summers at Grammas and Grandpa’s cottage on the lake. It is so peaceful.

Veranda Beach is minimizing its footprint and preserving the natural beauty of the property through the eco-friendly design, architecture, construction and interior fit and finish of these Lakeside Vineyard Cottages.

All Veranda Beach owners and their guests have access to more than a mile of private sandy beach with a sheltered marina, walking trails and more. A quick walk through the vineyard, onto the village trail leads to the Village Center in just minutes. Beach volleyball and an outdoor fire pit perfect for roasting marshmallows add to the memory making at Veranda Beach. The Veranda Beach Village Center will be completed in the spring of 2009. The village will include an Inn at the Point, Tuck Shop (store), the Village Hall and a '50s-era diner serving authentic burgers and milkshakes. The master plan also includes an amphitheatre, an aquatic park, equestrian center, basketball courts and more.

The Veranda Beach community features quaint tree-lined streets with '50s- style cottages situated along a 1.25-mile stretch of beach on Lake Osoyoos. The 280-acre lakeside development includes its own working vineyard, walking trails, sheltered marina and, in the Village Centre, a private inn for guests and a Veranda Beach cottage rental management program, including on-site reservations, housekeeping and maintenance.

Jim Hammond is the man in charge at Legend Resorts US Ltd. with more than 28 years of experience building homes of exceptional quality. Sundance Resort, Legend's most recent development at Big White Ski Resort in British Columbia, has been the recipient of numerous peer accolades. They build quality first and are excellent people to do business with.