Short tour, long tasting
Tyler Harlton, the TH in TH Wines, jokes the tour of his Summerland winery takes all of 90 seconds.
“Literally, it’s a little garage with very little equipment, so it doesn’t take long at all,” he said. “But you can take as long as you like in the new tasting room and shop.”
TH Wines is a negociant-style winery, meaning Harlton doesn’t have any vineyards, but buys quality grapes from various growers to make wine under his own label.
As such, his premises doesn’t need to be on a vineyard.
In fact, his location is about as far away from the farm as you can get in an industrial area on Cedar Avenue.
As industrial parks go, it’s an artisan one with a micro brewer, coffee roaster and small-scale furniture maker also in the mix.
Despite it’s out-of-the-way location, TH gets a steady stream of traffic because it’s a member of Bottleneck Drive and is on the Summerland wineries association’s road signage, maps and marketing.
This spring, TH released a line up of six wines.
Five are available to everyone – 2016 rose, 2016 Viognier, 2016 Riesling, 2015 Pinot Noir and 2015 Cabernet Franc.
But the Malbec is for wine club members only.
Harlton considers the Pinot Noir ($33) his flagship wine for its bright strawberry and rhubarb fruit followed by black current and dark chocolate flavours.
TH Wines are available at the winery as well as the VQA store and Cherry Lane Liquor in Penticton, Urban Liquor in Kelowna and Turtle Bay Liquor Merchants in Lake Country.
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There are also 30th anniversary offerings like 1.5 litre bottles of 2014 Pinot Noir and The Last Word Bordeaux-style blend for $135 and $175, respectively, and boxed sets of different years of Pinot Noirs.
On the 30th of each month this year, wine tastings and small bites in the wine shop are free and on the 30th of May, June, July and August, a special two-course meal on the Vineyard Terrace Restaurant is $30.
There are also yoga-and-wine sessions, barbecue cooking classes with chef Jeremy Tucker, a dinner series and concerts.
Check out CedarCreek.bc.ca for dates, times and costs.
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