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Welcome to our Web Winery!!!

Our Mission:

To help you craft commercial-quality wines at non-commercial pricing!

A Bit About Us... 

The Towne Winer opened in 2003 in the south- end of Guelph at the Downey Road Plaza (see map).  The proprietors both have their own areas of expertise: Barrie(a.k.a. The Winer) started to make wine 35 years ago while Liz has 20 years experience in the gift trade. Our store features wine and gourmet gifts, the world's best stemware: Riedel, the new Eisch Breathable Glass, wine kits, pasteurized and Ontario juices and unique items for the wine connoisseur. Beyond the sales counter is the walk-in cooler, and the bottling area with sinks,bottling supplies and equipment.

Downie Road is just  an extension of Kortright, west of the Hanlon Expressway
Our winery offers an inviting atmosphere in which to vint your quality wines. We have an extensive barrel program, we specialize in vinting "with skins on", varietals and French hybrids. With the help of multi-award winning winemaker, Barrie, the results are commercial quality, ageworthy wines for you to enjoy and share with your friends.

Spacious, clean and pleasant place to bottle your varietals or custom blends

Why Wine With Us?

Minimal use of additives
Superior water quality
(5-stage carbon filtration plus U-V Sterilization) 
Award-winning winemaker on premise
Customized wine programs
Unique wine gifts and accessories
Special occasion wines and packages
Corporate gift and premium incentive programs
 ~ We guarantee your wines! ~


HEAR YE! HEAR-YE!

Girl’s Night Out @ The Towne Winer
Invite some new “Winerettes”
To The Towne Winer for a fun filled Monday or Tuesday evening of  “Enlightenment of Wining”
with your hosts, Liz & The Winer.

Select your premium wine(s) to make and save your money! (regular $190 - $285 per selection of 30 bottles)

This Winerette Appreciation Special is a $50 Savings for each selection you choose.

All inclusive - everything you need for your fine wining experience:

 

  • Wine Labels
  • Wine Bottles
  • Matching Shrink Tops
  • Quality Closures for Proper Cellaring

Come experience commercial quality wine at non-commercial pricing!
Geat Fun! Quick & Easy! A Great Social Event!


Ye Olde Towne Winer’s Club Annual Wine Tour

THE 5TH ANNUAL HAMILTON FOOD & DRINK FESTIVAL

Gold Winner Of The Hamilton Spectator’s Readers Choice “Festival of the Year” Winner of “The Region’s Best Event of the Year 2008” Tourism Hamilton

A CULINARY & WINING EXPERIENCE DON'T MISS OUT.

Sunday, April 11, 2010
COPPS COLISEUM

Join us winers again for another enjoyable and informative Sunday afternoon at The Towne Winer’s
favourite festival showcasing more than 60 of the area’s finest restaurateurs, caterers, vintners and brewers.

Together they serve up delectable samples from their menus and paired tastings with live entertainment & cooking demonstrations.

Invite Your Friends! *** A “Wining” Combination!!!

Great Fun! Great Food! Great Company!

10:45 AM: Departure from The Towne Winer Plaza
5:30 PM: A Spirited Return Home to The Towne Winer Plaza. Cost: $50 Cash in advance

Includes: Bus, festival admission fee, cheese with your wining, more wining with The Bear & Liz, bus door prizes and surprises!
Mini Shuttle Bus: on return within Guelph if requested in advance.
A no cancellation policy is in effect but substitutions are welcomed.

We would REALLY appreciate if you could reserve sooner than later so we can book the appropriate bus accommodations.

Wine On!
The Towne Winer
Downey Road Centre (just west of the YM/YWCA) 824-9191


Cellar Craft 2008 Limited Release Collection

Cellar Craft You can vint world class age-worthy, varietal-specific wines from region specific, low yield vineyards in Washington State, France and Italy. With our many years of experience of bench testing ultra-premium wines with “skins”, we strongly feel that Cellar Craft is an industry benchmark! An absolutely great gift that will keep on giving!
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RJ Spagnols Cru Select 2009 Restricted Quantities Collection

Cru Select 2008
Exceptional Wines Made By You!

Each year Cru Select offers winemakers outstanding wines from the world’s leading vineyards. Discerning winemakers eagerly
anticipate the Restricted Quantities announcement, so they can stock their wine cellars with these exceptional vintages.
These wines have become known as industry benchmarks of quality.
The 2009 release allows you to explore many of the worlds most historic and unique wine-growing regions.
RJ Spagnols invite you to bottle the experience with the release of these outstanding wines!
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Taste The Difference With Reidel!

Cru Select 2008The Towne Winer carries a great selection of the finest proven wine instruments in the world: stemware from Reidel, the Wine Glass Company!

If you've never had the pleasure of tasting wine from a Reidel glass, you're in for a pleasant surprise.  What an improvement from the typical wine stem! Enhanced bouquet, greater length, increased complexity and accentuated characteristics of the varietal. Simply put, wines tastes different in different shaped glasses.  Choosing the glass appropriate to the varietal is a good start, and when it is good quality stemware too, you'll be serving your wine at its very best!


   
Testimonials
 
 

The efforts of The Towne Winer to produce truly customized, commercial quality wine for every customer are second to none.

Extensive experience, customized tweaking, fun environment = great wines every time that have been truly appreciated by me and my clients for the past 3+ years.

Yours in travel,

Barbara E Fisk, CTC, ACC, MBA
Certified Travel & Cruise Counsellor, CITC & CLIA
Travel Professionals International


Always great wines. We have yet to have a batch we were not thrilled with. Good enough to convince my wine-snob sister-in-law that non-commercial wines are not to be shunned! And there's generally a good conversation while you're bottling too!

Barney Tracy
Tracy Group Benefits & Financial Services


Elizabeth Reemeyer, a Cambridge client and longtime friend of The Winer and Liz says what sets The Towne Winer apart from the other DIY on-premise places is how clean everything is kept.

"When you're making a food product, cleanliness is not optional, it's essential. The music is on, the expert is on-site if I have any questions. The Winer has great instincts when it comes to knowing what to do to bring out the best in a varietal."

 
What's New
    

Hear Ye Hear Ye!

Receive $25 off your next purchase of a premium quality wine vinted at

Towne Winer Coupon

Print your Coupon Now
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Ye Olde Towne Winer’s Club Annual Wine Event
The 5th Annual Hamilton Food & Wine Festival
Pre - Book with us for our fun wining event!
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The Towne Winer gives brides a fun way to offer great wine at budget-friendly pricing

If you ask Liz Woolford and Barrie Browne of The Towne Winer in Guelph, making your own wine is about getting creative with your wedding details, offering great tasting, award-winning wine with minimal additives, and of course, having fun while you're at it. "We offer a customized and fun experience making your own wine for your wedding day.

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Big & Easy Bottle Brewing now at the Towne Winer

The Towne Winer is now a retailer of Big & Easy Bottle Brewing please phone for details.

Ye Olde Towne Winer medals again in 2008!

Silver for our En Primeur New Zealand Marlborough Pinot Noir 2006

Bronze for Cellar Craft Limited Release Yakima Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2006

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Flameless Candles No Mess last for more than 700 hours, per set of batteries. Click Here for more info.



FYI
    

Picking a Wine Kit - Which one?

7.5 L/10 L kits: less varietal juice content and total disolved solids (TDS*), most concentrate; to be enjoyed younger

16 L Premium kits: more varietal juice content and TDS; less concentrate; requires aging

16 L /18 L Ultra Premium Kits: most varietal juice content and TDS; less concentrate, requires cellaring

23 L Premium Fresh Juice format:  100% varietal juice, maximum TDS, requires cellaring

*TDS: the more TDS, the more aroma and flavour compounds the wine will have

The Winer can help you create highly tweaked specialty wines of great value: Gerwurtztraminer, Ice wines, Porto Corinto, Orange Muscato and Cream Sherry are competition proven styles that offer intense flavours and aromas for your appreciative guests at dessert time. 

   
 
Awards
    

Wine Achievements

Since The "Winer" has gone full time vinting quality wines for The Hospitality Trade in 1994, he has earned many international awards for the quality of his wines.

The most prestigious of these awards is The Intervin International Awards
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Map
    

Not sure where we're located? Click to view map.

Or set your GPS to: 43.499319, -80.237250

Store Hours:
Closed Monday
Tues. – Fri.: 10 am – 8 pm
Sat.: 10 am – 5 pm
Sundays & Statuary Holidays: Closed

Bottling Times:
Wed - Fri 12pm - 7pm
Sat - 11am - 4pm

   
 
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