Markham Heritage Wines is owned and operated by the Arthurs family. With over 80 years’ combined winemaking experience, you can be assured your winemaking experience will be unparalled.

Background

In 1965, we opened Ontario’s first store, Wine-Art, catering to winemakers seeking quality supplies for making wine at home. The business grew over the years into the world’s largest manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer supplying discriminating wine and beer makers around the world.

In 1987, we developed the first Four Week wine kit, meeting a growing demand for a quick fermenting product that could be made in a home or apartment. In a few short years, Wine-Art customers were making over 8 million bottles of great wine annually.

The business continued to grow and eventually merged with Wine Kitz to form the largest chain of retail winemaking shops in the world. The business was sold in 2008.

Now, after a short retirement, we are back in business, ready to bring Markham/Stouffville and York region a whole new experience in making wine.

Whether you are looking to make your wine at home or at our fully equipped wine shop, we are ready with answers to any questions you may have. Our offerings from around the world can satisfy your requirements for good quality daily table wine to the very finest wines suitable for special occasions and for long term cellaring.

Making wine is easy, fool proof, totally guaranteed and allows you to enjoy fine wines at a fraction of the cost of commercial wine.

Should you choose to make wine at our shop, simply drop in and select your favourite variety from our wide selection of kits, brought to you from the finest vineyards around the world. We will mix it on the spot and have you add the yeast, which starts the fermentation process. This takes about 5 – 10 minutes. Then you return in 4 – 6 weeks to bottle the finished wine. See our On-Premise Winemaking for full details.

The bottling process is completely automated, from sanitizing the bottles, to filling, corking and labelling, and will require about 1/2 hour to process a standard 30 bottle batch. Depending on the type of wine you have made, the wine can be very drinkable right away and will also continue to improve over time.

Should you choose to make wine in your home, we can provide all of the necessary equipment and ingredients to ensure your complete success.

We look forward to seeing you.

~ Mike and John Arthurs

Contact Information

15 Heritage Road, #2
Markham, ON
L3P 3T1

Phone: (905) 294-9463

Email: info@markhamheritagewines.ca

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