Arrowleaf is a family-owned and operated winery founded in 2001 by the Zuppiger family. In 1986, Joe and Margrit Zuppiger and their five children immigrated to Canada from Switzerland (the Zurich area) where they had been operating an organic orchard and dairy farm. They continued dairy farming in Alberta, settling south of Edmonton. After 10 years in the dairy business they moved to the Okanagan and purchased Suncrest Vineyard and two years later, the Carter Farm, the current location of the winery. For the first five years they grew grapes for Gray Monk Winery with the eventual goal of establishing their own winery.