Wineries
Monster Vineyards
About Monster Vineyards
Buying wine directly from a producer instead of off a liquor store shelf is a different kind of stop. Monster Vineyards works in that industry from 1010 Tupper Avenue, with a line at 250-493-9463 for anyone wanting to settle the details before driving over.
What a winery offers a visitor varies from one gate to the next, and it is the sort of thing worth confirming ahead. Tasting rooms across the South Okanagan keep seasonal hours, with the long stretch from late spring to the end of harvest much busier than the winter months. Some places take walk ins and some prefer a booking, some charge a tasting fee and waive it against a purchase, some can host a group and some cannot. Shipping, case pricing and whether there is food on site are all standard questions. The website at monstervineyards.ca is the quickest place to see what is being poured, and a phone call settles the rest.
Penticton makes an easy base for a day spent this way. The city occupies the narrow neck of land between Okanagan Lake and Skaha Lake, with wine country reachable in every direction and Oliver and Osoyoos less than an hour to the south. Harvest runs through the autumn, when the working end of the industry takes over from the touring end, so an early season visit tends to be quieter and a September one more interesting.
Visiting Monster Vineyards
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In the Downtown Penticton neighbourhood of Penticton.
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