Time Winery Opens New Restaurant and Location in the Wine Village

By Gary Symons

The TIME Family of Wines is making some major moves this year, opening a restaurant and tasting room in Penticton, and a new winery location at the District Wine Village in Oliver.

The company says its staff have been working non-stop over the winter on this expansion, with all three new facilities due to open in 2023.

“While the winter months are often the time for BC wineries to take a moment to breathe, there has been little time for rest for the team at TIME Family of Wines,” the company said in a statement. “This snowy season has been one of their busiest yet, with the team’s Penticton location temporarily closed for a massive reformation. On the other side of this construction, visitors can expect a wine tasting and culinary experience that will set a new standard for excellence in BC and beyond.”

In Penticton, TIME will be opening the new OROLO Restaurant + Cocktail Bar, with new addition Kirk Morrison joining the team as culinary director. Morrison will not only be overseeing the offerings at Orolo, but also at the soon-to-be-opened Chronos tasting room next door, and the small winery at the District Wine Village.

The restaurant will be located in an historic theatre in downtown Penticton, and “will offer elevated, elegant cuisine in a relaxed environment,” TIME says. The restaurant is also committed to supporting local farmers, producers and purveyors with a strong buy local campaign.

The company says one of its goals is to provide the best possible steaks for discerning diners, and for that reason, it is installing several ‘dry agers’, which are specialty aging cabinets from Germany that the makers say will produce the “best meat in the world.”

One thing that will stay is the locally revered, award-winning TIME burger, which has developed a legion of rabid fans.

The Chronos Tasting Room

The other major initiative in Penticton this year is the opening of the Chronos tasting room, which will offer TIME’s Chronos label wines as well as the McWatters collection. The tasting room will be situated right next to OROLO.

“In keeping with the OROLO experience, visitors can expect an elevated tasting experience at the Chronos Tasting Room,” TIME says. “Here they will get to taste and purchase the very best wines BC has to offer from the TIME Family of Wines portfolio, but in a casual, comfortable environment designed to invite tasters to linger and enjoy every moment.”

TIME Family of Wines at the District Wine Village

In addition to the new openings in Penticton, TIME recently opened a new winery and tasting room at the highly successful District Wine Village in Oliver. This year the company says it’s expanding on its food offerings with a new and broader menu, offering an elevated food and wine pairing program.

Summerland Food Hub Receives $800,000 from BC Government

The BC government is investing $800,000 to open a new food innovation hub in Summerland.

The new Okanagan Food and Innovation Hub (OFIH) will be part of the growing BC Food Hub Network, which currently has 13 facilities throughout the province.

Food hubs provide a commercial shared food-processing and innovation space that are helping increase the volume of food grown and processed locally, creating more demand for ingredients from local farmers, and increasing the number of people employed locally by the food industry, while addressing food safety and security issues.

“Like many other producers in the area, I believe this food hub facility will help increase the possibility of primary production and create opportunities for new added-value revenue streams for farmers in Summerland,” said Thomas Tumbach, owner, LocalMotive Organic Delivery and Low Waste Market.