Owners of Harper’s Trail set to retire; winery up for sale
KAMLOOPS — Don’t whine because it’s over — savour that it happened.
In a news release issued Tuesday (Feb. 14), Harper’s Trail Winery owners Ed and Vicki Collett announced their impending retirement after 16 years in the wine business.
The winery in east Kamloops will open its tasting room for one final month in May.
“To have realized our vision of opening a winery and growing premium grapes in the Thompson Valley is a dream come true,” Ed says. “Despite the hard work and challenges along the way, we wouldn’t change a thing. It took a lot of courage to be the first to step up in a new wine region, but to see the Thompson Valley wine industry emerge and grow into what is now — an official wine appellation — has been, and continues to be, beyond gratifying.”
