Nostalgia Wines at ARC Harvey
Black Sage Bench Wine, Four Generations of Family Farming, and a Playful Sense of Occasion
Some wineries make you remember a bottle. Nostalgia wants you to remember the moment around it.
Nostalgia Wines is a woman-owned boutique winery on the Black Sage Bench in Oliver. Owner and vintner Gina Fernandes Harfman brings four generations of South Okanagan farming experience to a small-lot portfolio filled with personality, regional character, and a genuine invitation to make new memories.
At ARC Liquor Harvey, our Nostalgia collection currently includes six listings: Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Merlot–Cabernet, Pinot Gris, Rosé, and the winery's lightly sparkling Chantilly Lace.
Emily's Chantilly Lace is the playful sparkling bottle within that wider story—fruity, softly effervescent, and ready for brunch, birthdays, patio toasts, and celebrations that value fun before formality.
A Winery Where Family History Meets Creative Personality
Gina Fernandes Harfman is the fourth generation of her family to work South Okanagan soil. Before wine became her profession, her creative path included fine-art studies and airbrushing and pinstriping hot rods and motorcycles—an artistic background that helps explain why Nostalgia's identity feels so distinctive.
Gina made her first family wines in 2009 using grapes from her father Ken Harfman's vineyard and created custom pinstriped labels for the occasion. She enrolled in winemaking studies that same year, gained practical cellar experience, and took ownership of the winery in 2012.
Today, that combination of farming, winemaking, family, art, and automotive culture runs throughout Nostalgia. The retro labels and flower-filled vintage truck bring the smile, but the bottles are grounded in serious attention to vineyard character and vintage.
Our Nostalgia Wines Picks at ARC Harvey
ARC Harvey currently carries six Nostalgia selections. The range moves from crisp white and rosé styles to smooth dinner reds, with Chantilly Lace providing the playful sparkling moment in the middle.
Nostalgia Chantilly Lace
Emily's semi-sweet, lightly sparkling pick with peach, pear, tropical fruit, and floral charm. A cheerful bottle for brunch, birthdays, spicy appetizers, desserts, and relaxed patio toasts.
Emily's Summer Select • The Playful Sparkling
Nostalgia Cabernet Sauvignon
A structured South Okanagan red for customers drawn to dark berry fruit, spice, savoury detail, and the confidence to meet steak, grilled meats, mushrooms, or an evening by the fire.
The Black Sage Dinner Red
Nostalgia Chardonnay
A layered local Chardonnay for roast chicken, seafood, creamy dishes, and customers who enjoy orchard and citrus fruit with texture, freshness, and a more composed dinner-table feel.
The Textured Local White
Nostalgia Merlot–Cabernet
A smooth, approachable red blend that brings generous fruit and enough structure for roast dinners, burgers, charcuterie, mature cheese, or customers looking for an easy sense of occasion.
The Smooth Red Blend
Nostalgia Pinot Gris 2024
A refreshing Okanagan white for patios, fresh salads, seafood, grilled vegetables, and casual meals. Its familiar style makes it an easy bottle to chill, open, and share.
The Easy Patio White
Nostalgia Rosé
A bright local rosé for lake days, brunch, picnic boards, prawns, soft cheese, and warm afternoons. Fresh fruit and relaxed charm make it a natural summer companion.
The Sunny Okanagan Rosé
Playful on the Outside, Purposeful in the Bottle
Nostalgia's personality is impossible to miss. Retro pin-up artwork, automotive influences, a flower-filled vintage truck, and names such as Chantilly Lace make the winery feel welcoming before the first glass is poured.
Behind that lighthearted presentation is a vintner rooted in family farming and small-lot production. Gina's aim is to capture what each vintage and vineyard can offer, then create wines that become part of the stories customers remember around the table.
That balance of identity and substance has earned national attention, including being named #3 Top Small Winery in Canada by WineAlign in 2024. The achievement supports what makes Nostalgia compelling: the experience is fun, but the wine is never treated casually.
Black Sage Bench Warmth with Deep Family Roots
Nostalgia is located on the Black Sage Bench in Oliver, where long summer days and warm South Okanagan conditions give wine grapes the opportunity to build generous flavour while the surrounding valley keeps the landscape unmistakably local.
The winery's perspective reaches beyond a single season. Four generations of family farming connect today's bottles to decades of knowledge about the South Okanagan, its vineyards, and the patience required to build something that lasts.
That sense of place helps the portfolio move comfortably from fresh Pinot Gris, Chardonnay, and Rosé to Cabernet Sauvignon and blended reds, while Chantilly Lace turns local Kerner and Chardonnay into a softer, fruit-forward frizzante celebration.
Not Sure Which Nostalgia Wine Fits? Ask Emily.
Tell Emily whether the bottle is for brunch, a patio toast, barbecue, dinner, dessert, or a gift, what wine styles you normally enjoy, what you are serving, and how much you would like to spend.
She can help you compare the easy refreshment of Pinot Gris and Rosé with the richer feel of Chardonnay, the deeper character of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot–Cabernet, or the soft sparkle and generous fruit of Chantilly Lace.
Nostalgia's labels may start the conversation, but Emily can help make sure the wine inside fits the occasion you actually have in mind.
Emily's Nostalgia Pick
Planning brunch, a birthday, patio toast, dessert table, or relaxed celebration where the bottle should feel cheerful rather than formal?
Ask Emily why Chantilly Lace earned its place as the playful sparkling wine in her Summer Selects Collection.
Discover Nostalgia Wines Through ARC Harvey
At ARC Harvey, we want customers to understand the story behind a producer without having to leave the ARC experience to find it.
This Nostalgia collection allows shoppers to explore six current listings, move from bright whites and rosé to generous South Okanagan reds, ask Emily for guidance, and choose the bottle that fits their food, taste, occasion, and budget.
From the playful sparkle of Chantilly Lace to approachable Pinot Gris, Chardonnay, Rosé, Merlot–Cabernet, and Cabernet Sauvignon, Nostalgia offers a memorable route into Black Sage Bench wine.
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