Some drama on the Naramata Bench…

Forget about the Super Ego blend, the personality clash and sour grapes at this Naramata vineyard sound like they required a psychiatrist instead of B.C. Supreme Court.

Nevertheless, after a nasty two-year battle, it was Justice Eric Rice who stepped in last week and ousted one of Western Canada’s leading oenophiles and gave his partners control of the property he bought to fulfil a lifelong dream of becoming a winemaker.

The justice said the other substantive issues in the sour litigation must be resolved at a trial — the bouquet around some of the evidence leaves a little too much barnyard on the palate.

Sorry for the puns. The Vancouver Sun can’t help itself.