Liquor Stores
Public Liquor
About Public Liquor
Local wine fills a good portion of any Okanagan bottle shop's shelves, and how much space it gets varies from one store to the next. Public Liquor is at 1750 Pier Mac Way in the Glenmore area, sharing the address with another business, and takes calls at 778 753 6253. The company keeps a site at publicliquor.com.
A useful thing to know about any bottle shop is how it handles what is not already on the shelf. Ask whether cases can be brought in and how long that takes, since planning a wedding or a large dinner around a particular label is far easier with a week of notice than with a day. Ask what is kept cold, which matters more than it sounds in a valley where a hot afternoon turns up without warning. And if you are buying local, say so out loud, because the range of small valley producers is wide and someone behind the counter can usually narrow it faster than a label will.
The setting is a working one rather than a strolling one. Streets in this pocket north of the centre carry a mix of light industry, showrooms and service businesses, with the highway close by and the airport corridor continuing northeast, which makes for straightforward parking and an easy stop on the way home. Glenmore itself is family housing on the valley floor between downtown and the hillside campus, so there is steady local trade alongside the visitors passing through. Anyone touring the wine country for a day will find this side of the city an easier place to load a car than the downtown blocks in July.
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In the Glenmore neighbourhood of Kelowna.
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