HEADS UP: Restaurant Industry’s “Food Fight” For Chef Owen Lightly Has Sold Out!

Thanks to an incredible response from the local service industry (and notably beyond), tickets to the May 19th fundraiser for Butter On The Endive chef Owen Lightly at Vancouver Urban Winery have now sold out. We’ve been told that no tickets will be issued at the door. Owen – a highly respected and well liked member of BC’s restaurant community – was recently diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. All the funds raised at the event will help him and his partner Naomi in their fight against the disease.

NB. If you weren’t able to purchase a ticket in time it is still possible to donate.

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: Vancouver Urban Winery Is Looking For A Staff Accountant

Vancouver Urban Winery is located at 55 Dunlevy Ave in Vancouver BC | 604-566-9463 |vancouverurbanwinery.com

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Vancouver, BC | Vancouver Urban Winery is looking for an energetic, organized and passionate individual to fill the role of staff accountant. This position is available only for candidates with full cycle accounting experience. The Winery is a dynamic, exciting, and fast-pace environment with a growing team. As staff accountant, you will be an important asset to the success of the business. Entrepreneurial attitude and ability to enjoy a glass of wine are also key personality traits. Details after the jump… Read more

GOODS: Vancouver Urban Winery Set For Special Night Of Live Jazz, Food And Wine

Vancouver Urban Winery is located at 55 Dunlevy Ave in Vancouver BC | 604-566-9463 |vancouverurbanwinery.com

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Vancouver, BC | Vancouver Urban Winery and Two Chefs and a Table present our Great Gatsby Roaring Twenties Dinner on Saturday May 11th. Tickets are $75, include a three course meal, wine and cocktails. Dinner is at 8pm with the lounge open at 9pm. The lounge will be open to the public for those who just want to come and enjoy the tasting bar and live jazz by Cory Weeds. Dressing up is encouraged! Tickets available at VUW or via Eventbrite. Menu after the jump… Read more

GOODS: “House Wine” To Host Special Tasting With Alberto Antonini On June 3rd

House Wine is a wine consultancy company from trade vets Michaela Morris & Michelle Bouffard | housewine.ca

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Vancouver, BC | We can’t tell you how excited we are to have the privilege to put on a tasting with the highly respected Alberto Antonini. Between managing his own winery (Poggiotondo in Tuscany), partnering on numerous projects and lending his expertise to 50+ wineries as a winemaker and viticulturist, Alberto is a busy man.

Join us for an evening of great conversation with Alberto. The night will start with an intimate sit down discussion where Mr. Antonini will share his experiences working around the globe in his quest to craft wines that express a sense of place. Bringing it all the way to our own backyard, he will reveal his vision for our terroir in British Columbia. Alberto has been working with Okanagan Crush Pad in the Okanagan as a consulting winemaker and viticulturist since 2010.

The discussion will be followed by a walk about tasting where you will get a chance to try wines from Australia, Italy, Argentina and BC that Alberto has either made or consulted on. Read more

GOODS: Vancouver Urban Winery Hosting “Sunday School” Series Of Wine Seminars

Vancouver Urban Winery is located at 55 Dunlevy Ave in Vancouver BC | 604-566-9463 |vancouverurbanwinery.com

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Vancouver, BC | The Vancouver Urban Winery presents Sunday School, a series of informal and irreverent wine seminars hosted by Sommeliers David Stansfield and Lisa Cook. The focus of Sunday School will be on demystifying wine in an accessible and energetic environment. “Our goal is to pair a little education with a lot of wine, and even more fun” explains David Stansfield. “That’s the great thing about learning about wine. The best way to do it is to drink, and to talk about drinking.” Details after the jump… Read more

GOODS: Road 13 Pairs With Joy Road For “The Country In The City” Supper On April 3

Joy Road Catering operates from May through October all over the Okanagan Valley | 250-493-8657 | joyroadcatering.com

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Penticton, BC | Usually food and wine enthusiasts have to make the pilgrimage to BC’s interior to fully experience the world-class cuisine and vineyards of Okanagan wine country. For one night only, however, Joy Road Catering & Road 13 Vineyards are bringing a warm BC wine country evening to the heart of the city at Vancouver Urban Winery.

The Country In The City dinner on Wednesday, April 3 2013 offers guests a four-course dinner paired with stellar wines for a unique taste of the Okanagan. The wines will include an array of Road 13 Vineyards’ more exclusive labels, such as Sparkling Chenin Blanc (45-year-old vines), Syrah-Malbec blend and the Fleet Road Pinot Noir from Naramata. Members of the team from Road 13 Vineyards will attend the event and introduce their wines.

The wines will be paired with courses prepared by the Okanagan’s Joy Road Catering. Over the last few years, many Vancouverites have become dedicated fans of Joy Road Catering’s legendary ‘Cuisine de Terroir’ at their summer series of alfresco vineyard dinners in the sunny Okanagan. To whet your appetite, here’s a sneak peek at the menu… Read more

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: Vancouver Urban Winery Looking For An Accounting Manager

Vancouver Urban Winery is located at 55 Dunlevy Ave in Vancouver BC | 604-566-9463 |vancouverurbanwinery.com

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Vancouver, BC | Vancouver Urban Winery is looking for an energetic, organized and passionate individual to fill the role of Accounting Manager. The Winery is a dynamic, exciting, and fast-pace environment with a growing team. As Accounting Manager, you will be an important asset to the success of the business. Entrepreneurial attitude and ability to enjoy a glass of wine are also key personality traits. Responsibilities, required experience/skills, and details after the jump… Read more

GOODS: “Vancouver Urban Winery” Set To Throw Special Lobster Supper In Railtown

Vancouver Urban Winery is located at 55 Dunlevy Ave in Vancouver BC | 604-566-9463 |vancouverurbanwinery.com

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Vancouver, BC | Join us on the cellar floor of Vancouver Urban Winery, in the historic Railtown neighbourhood, for a very special Railtown Supper Party edition. This unique edition will feature LobsterMatt, a passionate East Coast lobster cooker. Born and raised in the Maritimes, LobsterMatt has mastered the art of preparing lobster. Come join us for some fresh lobster, flown in from the Maritimes with LobsterMatt. Each lobster portion will be paired with wines hand-picked from the Winery’s rotating selection of wine-on-tap. All the details (plus a link to tickets) after the jump… Read more

GOODS: Vancouver Urban Winery Releases Their Own “Roaring Twenties” Wine Label

Vancouver Urban Winery is located at 55 Dunlevy Ave in Vancouver BC | 604-566-9463 |vancouverurbanwinery.com

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Vancouver, BC | Vancouver Urban Winery officially has launched their first wine label: Roaring Twenties Wine Co.. Currently available throughout the BC market, the label will initially release a Sauvignon Blanc from Marlborough, New Zealand and a Malbec from Mendoza, Argentina, both with suggested retail of $14.99.

Roaring Twenties Wine Co. is a local brand with an international story. While creating a typical winery can take several years – vines need to ripen, grapes crushed and fermented, and finally, finished wines produced – the unique concept of an “urban” winery offers a new perspective where grapes and finished wines are sourced elsewhere. Without a vineyard in sight, young wine lovers and travel enthusiasts Steve Thorp and Mike Macquisten set out on a wine hunt of their own. With a third friend in tow to document the adventure on film, the crew headed to the two wine regions they have always enjoyed drinking from most. Read more

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: Vancouver Urban Winery Looking For An Office Administrator

Vancouver Urban Winery is located at 55 Dunlevy Ave in Vancouver BC | 604-566-9463 |vancouverurbanwinery.com

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Vancouver, BC | The Vancouver Urban Winery is looking for an energetic, organized and passionate person to fill an Administration role full-time. The Winery is a fun, exciting, and fast paced environment with a growing team. The successful candidate will be the first point of contact and will keep the office sailing in the right direction. Get all the details after the jump… Read more

GOODS: Dunlevy’s Vancouver Urban Winery Has Joined The Growing Scout Community

We’ve invited Railtown’s recently unveiled Vancouver Urban Winery to join our GOODS section as a recommended local business. They’re now proud members of Scout, and as such we will be posting their news in addition to hosting a page for them on our awesome, curated list of independent goodnesses. We’d like to take this chance to thank them for their support of Scout, and for making Vancouver a more delicious place to be. Take a look…

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Seen In Vancouver #394: First Wine Supper At Railtown’s New Vancouver Urban Winery

The recently unveiled and quite stunning Vancouver Urban Winery hosted their first wine dinner last night. Planned by VUW staffer Tony Trieu, the event was catered by chef Maria Huynh of Chau Veggie and the soon-to-open Satori Factory (both located at 34th and Victoria). It was a 5 course Vietnamese-French feast paired with wines fresh from the taps of VUW’s tasting bar with notes from resident sommelier David Stansfield. There is no hard intel on when the next dinner will be, but we’ve been told to keep some Thursdays in November open. In the meantime, the tasting bar is open for sips Monday through Wednesday from 11am to 6pm, and Thursday and Friday from 11am to 9pm. The next time you’re up for an evening in Gastown or thereabouts, this would be a great place to hit up first before your palate gets punched.

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Details

Vancouver Urban Winery
55 Dunlevy Ave | Vancouver BC V6A3A3
Telephone: 604-566-9463
Email: info@vancouverurbanwinery.com
Web: vancouverurbanwinery.com | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

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The People Who Make It Happen

Steve Thorp | Co-Founder, COO
Mike Macquisten | Co-Founder, CEO
Wayne Holm | Partner
Kate Marshall | Facility Coordinator
Tony Trieu | Design, Logistics
Kelly Symonds | Winemaker
David Stansfield | Sommelier

About Vancouver Urban Winery

Vancouver Urban Winery is located two blocks off Gastown in the historic heart of Vancouver’s Railtown. The 7,700 square foot urban winery is the first of its kind in Vancouver and also operates as a unique special events space. The winery features a tasting bar where consumers can learn about British Columbia wines, and the exploding wine-on-tap category.

Alongside the tasting bar sits a boutique wine shop full of local items, wine merchandise, artisan foods and beverages……and plenty of wine!

The winery manufactures, packages, imports and distributes wine for multiple brands including Roaring Twenties Wine Co. The operations of FreshTAP, which specialize in packaging quality wines in stainless steel kegs for the emerging wine-on-tap category also takes place within the Vancouver Urban Winery.

As an urban winery the business is not attached to a specific vineyard. This enables the winery to source wine grapes and finished product from any appellation in the world.

The urban winery concept brings the consumer closer to the winemaking experience in a more meaningful way than a simple wine bar or retail space might. Wine aficionados traditionally travel to remote areas to learn about winemaking firsthand and to taste the offerings of a wine producer in the setting in which they were made. Now, many urban dwellers can hop in their car for a short drive, take public transport or even walk to enjoy an authentic winery experience.