Liquor Stores
50th Parallel & Block One
About 50th Parallel & Block One
Terrace View Road climbs the bench above Okanagan Lake in Carr's Landing, at the northern end of Lake Country, and 50th Parallel & Block One sits along it, one of several wine and liquor addresses spread across this stretch of benchland.
Liquor stores in the valley range widely in what they actually are on the ground, from a straightforward retail counter to a working wine or cider operation selling primarily at its own door. What is in stock and how busy the door gets both tend to shift with the season, fuller through summer and into harvest, quieter over winter. Calling ahead before a special trip out is the simplest way to avoid arriving to a closed door or a picked-over shelf, particularly outside the main season.
Carr's Landing is the quietest corner of Lake Country, a stretch of acreages, small beaches and orchard and vine land along Okanagan Lake north of Okanagan Centre. The drive up from Highway 97 through Winfield takes longer than the distance on a map suggests, since the road follows the bench rather than running straight, and the last stretch in particular rewards a slower pace. Vernon lies a short run north and Kelowna a longer one south, and the district is small enough that a stop up here is easily combined with the other wine addresses further along the same road.
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In the Carr's Landing neighbourhood of Lake Country.
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