Wineries
Okanagan Crush Pad Winery
About Okanagan Crush Pad Winery
Crush pads are where a season of orchard and vineyard work finally stops being fruit and starts being wine, and the name over the door at 16576 Fosbery Road puts that stage of the job front and centre. Summerland sits on the west bench of the valley, across the water from Penticton, and the ground here has been studied for tree fruit and grapes for more than a century by the federal research station on the same benchland. Wine grew naturally out of that long agricultural history.
Visiting a producer in this part of the valley usually means a short drive off the main road and up onto the bench, so it helps to plan the stop rather than treat it as a walk-in. Tasting rooms across the Okanagan run on a seasonal rhythm: long afternoons through cherry and grape season, then quieter and shorter through winter. Groups, food service, tour bookings and private tastings all vary from one gate to the next, which makes okanagancrushpad.com or a message ahead the sensible first step.
The bench roads reward slow driving. Fosbery Road sits in Downtown Summerland, within reach of the waterfront park and the marina, and a stop here folds easily into a wider loop of the bench that can also take in Giant's Head Mountain and the orchard country running west toward Garnet Valley. Cyclists and drivers coming over from Penticton should allow for the climb up off the highway. Winter visitors find the same roads quieter and the views across the water wide open.
Visiting Okanagan Crush Pad Winery
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In the Downtown Summerland neighbourhood of Summerland.
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