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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)
  • Multi award-winning winemaker
  • Customized wine & barrel aging programs
  • 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed!
  • Continual sourcing for the best new products in every price and quality category
  • We are not a franchise so we are not supply controlled nor limited
  • Continual improvement of our wine making techniques to vint the best possible wines for our winers
  • Great wine gifts & essential wine accessories
  • Elegant gift baskets for personal & corporate
  • Riedel & Eisch Breathable stemware

SOMETHING TO WINE ABOUT

New Wine On Tap

New Wine On Tap System: Reduces Bottling! Join millions of people around the world making a statement about climate change, eco-oenophiles can now use the new era of premium Bag-in-Box (BIB) wine–on–tap systems.

Choosing a premium wine on tap system instead of carbon-inefficient heavy glass bottles reduces packaging waste by at least 85% and carbon emissions by 55% without sacrificing quality. It saves green, too; a 7 liter dispenser of wine holds the equivalent of 9 glass bottles but costs much less plus new technology keeps air out and preserves flavor in for at least six months once the package is open. Bottle one or two bottles of wine for comparison when filling the recyclable bags!

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HEAR YE! HEAR-YE!

Girl’s Night Out @ The Towne Winer
We invite you and your friends to start your own fine wining. Experience in our fun & inviting micro-winery.

“There’s pride and fulfillment in creating your own fine wine cellar of age-worthy wines at non-LCBO pricing!”

The Ladies Night Out Special: A $50 savings for each selection of wine chosen Each selection includes free wine bottles, quality corks, wine labels & seals.

Your group chooses your CELLAR CRAFT selections of premium varietal wines. (Each selection makes approximately 30 standard bottles of wine) Your hosts will then lead you through the fine wine-making process.

Your Hosts: Liz & The Winer
The Location: At The Towne Winer
The Time: A pre-booked Monday or Tuesday evening
The Date: You reserve the date for your evening of “Enlightenment of Wining”

Great Fun! Quick & Easy! A Great Social Event! Results Guaranteed!

“Vinting commercial quality wines at non-commercial pricing”


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

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Niagara Wines

The Towne Winer Chardonnay Vintage Program is in full swing.

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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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