Sardis Park Wines

Chilliwack's liquor stores are spread thinly and placed with some deliberation, mostly where the traffic already is: attached to neighbourhood pubs downtown and in Sardis, in the strip plazas along Vedder Road, out at Vedder Crossing where the fishing and Cultus Lake traffic passes, and one or two serving the rural west toward Yarrow and Greendale. Private liquor retail in this province is mostly independently owned, which is why a local list is more use here than a national one, and why government stores and the national private chains are not included. Several of the independents carry Fraser Valley wine, cider and beer that never reaches a Vancouver shelf.

What is actually stocked is not something this listing knows. The name puts the emphasis on wine, but selection, and in particular whether Fraser Valley producers are represented, varies store to store and is worth a question at the counter. Private shops also set their own hours and their own range, which is a further reason a specific question belongs at the store rather than in a directory. No phone number, website or street number is published in the record, so the postal code is the way to find the block. For a specific bottle rather than a general errand, that is a thin basis on which to plan a trip.