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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 25 years experience in the gift trade. Our micro winery features Riedel: the world's best stemware, wine and gourmet gifts, the newly introduced RESISTech lead-free crystal wine stems plus essential wine accessories. Our award wining wines are vinted from the world’s best wine kits, 100% pasteurized juices and locally sourced Niagara Peninsula varietal juices. Beyond the sales counter is the walk-in cooler, bottling area with prep 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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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-commercial prices!”

The Ladies Night Out Special: A $40 savings for each selection of wine chosen
Each selection includes free wine bottles, quality closures, wine labels & seals.

Your group selects your showcase selections of premium varietal wines. Each selection makes approximately 30 standard bottles of wine. Your hosts can lead you then through the fine wine-making process.

Reserve the date for your evening of “Enlightenment of Wining”

Your Hosts: Liz & The Winer
The Location: At The Towne Winer - Downey Road Center
The Time: 7:00pm on 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!


Cellar Craft 2012 Limited Release Collection

Cellar Craft Exceptional Wines Made By You!
You can enjoy world class age-worthy, varietal-specific wines from region specific, low yield vineyards in Sonoma, Lake County & Madera California plus Yakima Valley & Red Mountain AVA’s Washington State. With our many years of experience of bench testing ultra-premium wines with “skins”, we strongly feel that Cellar Craft is an industry benchmark to aspire to! An absolutely great gift for that special winer that will keep on giving! Read More

RJ Spagnols Cru Select 2012 Restricted Quantities Collection

wine A Time for Discovery!

Each year, Cru Select offers winemakers outstanding new and exciting wines from the world’s leading vineyards. Discerning winemakers eagerly anticipate the Restricted Quantities (RQ) announcement so they can stock their wine cellars with these exceptional and distinctive vintages. The 2009 release allows you to explore many of the worlds most historic and unique wine-growing regions. RJ Spagnols is particularly proud of this year’s selection of Restricted Quantities wines: Down Under - Syrah, Toro, Down Under - Shiraz, Hang Ten and Tango! RJ Spagnols invite you to bottle the experience with the release of these outstanding wines! You will be proud to serve these wines. Read More



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
 
 

I made my first batch of wine with Towne Winer, and I have to say that they made it a very enjoyable experience……they spend a lot of time with me to make sure that I was getting the wine that I liked and I was not just settling with anything

Paul Paul Paquette
AMJ Campbell Moving


I continue to enjoy making wine at the Towne Winer and getting all my sponsorship gift baskets made up there.
The quality of the wine is superb and I’ve had many compliments. The baskets are always unique and contain both my TW wine and interesting wine accessories.
I heartily recommend the whole Towne Winer Experience!

Barbara E Fisk,
Certified Travel & Cruise Counsellor
Travel Professionals International
www.tpiqualitytravel.ca


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
www.groupbenefits.on.ca/


Elizabeth Reemeyer, a Cambridge client and long-time 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!

Towne Winer Coupon

Invites You to Vint a showcase wine and receive a free Brix Chocolate Variety Gift Set worth $30.
contact us at info@thetownewiner.ca  or 519.824.9191


New at The Towne Winer!
Brix Chocolate for wine lovers, scientifically formulated for pairing with wine. Available at The Towne Winer.

Brix Chocolate


$25 Value - When you vint your next Premium Wine! Click the icon below.

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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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Bottle Brew now at the Towne Winer
A revolutionary and easy way to make premium beer in just 10 days!

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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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FYI
    

Picking a Wine Kit - Which one?

7.5 L/10 L kits: less varietal juice content and total dissolved 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. 

Canadian Craft Winemakers Association (CCWA)

Guelph Chamber of Commerce

   
 
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 Sunday and Monday
Tuesday: 10 am - 6 pm
Wed. – Fri.: 10 am – 8 pm
Saturday: 10 am – 6 pm
Statuary Holidays: Closed

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


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