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Summerland’s Okanagan Crush Pad Organic Winery was founded on a long history of friendship, and shared respect for the land. With an experienced and passionate team, Okanagan Crush Pad creates small lot, vineyard-driven 100% BC VQA wines. The winery is home to the portfolios of Haywire, Narrative, and Free Form wines. Their onsite Switchback Vineyard is certified organic and vegan. Taste the portfolios today and discover why this winery is one of the Okanagan Valley's rising stars.

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16576 Fosberry Road, Summerland, BC

250-494-4445 winery@okanagancrushpad.com

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The story behind Okanagan Crush Pad

Okanagan Crush Pad opened in Summerland in 2011 as something new for Canada: a purpose-built winery that made wine for other labels as well as its own. Christine Coletta and Steve Lornie built it, and Christine had made the first Haywire wines a couple of years earlier.

From that custom-crush start grew two well-known brands of its own, Haywire and Narrative.

Raised in concrete

Okanagan Crush Pad helped bring concrete-tank winemaking to Canada, fermenting and ageing wine in big egg-shaped concrete vessels rather than steel or oak. Many of its wines carry a Raised in Concrete note for exactly that reason.

The farming is organic and the winemaking low-intervention, leaning on wild yeast and a light touch. A Haywire Pinot Noir earned a Lieutenant Governor's Award for Excellence in BC Wines.

Frequently asked questions

What is Okanagan Crush Pad known for?

Okanagan Crush Pad is a Summerland winery known for its Haywire and Narrative labels and for helping pioneer concrete-tank winemaking in Canada. It farms organically and works in a low-intervention style, with many wines Raised in Concrete.

What does Raised in Concrete mean?

It means the wine was fermented and aged in concrete tanks, often egg-shaped. Concrete lets the wine breathe gently without adding the flavour of oak, and Okanagan Crush Pad was an early champion of it in Canada.

Where is Okanagan Crush Pad?

In Summerland, in BC's Okanagan Valley, on the organic Switchback Vineyard. It began as a custom-crush winery, making wine for other labels, before its own brands took centre stage.