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Short Stop Drive Thru Cold Beer & Wine Store
About Short Stop Drive Thru Cold Beer & Wine Store
The name promises something not every liquor store offers, and it is worth asking about directly when you call: whether Short Stop Drive Thru Cold Beer & Wine Store still runs the drive-thru window its name describes. It operates at 2170 Harvey Ave, sharing its site with one other business, and details are kept on the ramadalodgehotelkelowna.com website.
Private beer and wine shops in British Columbia are a different animal from the government stores, and they vary a great deal from one to the next. Selection depends entirely on shelf space and buying decisions, cold storage is usually the point of the exercise, and pricing is set on site rather than centrally. Reasonable things to ask before making a trip: whether a particular case size can be brought in for you, how much of the wine on the wall comes from the valley itself, and how late the doors stay open. Photo identification is required at any age, so bring some.
The Okanagan grows wine on the benches above the lake in nearly every direction from Kelowna, and a shop in the middle of the valley is well placed to carry it, so it is worth asking what is local when you are choosing something rather than reaching for a label you already know. Harvey Avenue is a driving street lined with commercial frontage, the kind of setting where a quick stop off the road is easy to make. If you are heading out of town toward the lake or up into the hills for the afternoon, this side of the city is an easy place to stop on the way past.
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In the Dilworth neighbourhood of Kelowna.
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