Driving along York Road on the way to St. Davids it's hard to miss one of Niagara-on-the-Lake's newest wineries. The last finishing touches of stucco were completed on the four-level, 31,000 square foot C-shaped family-owned-and-operated winery late last year.
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With a little old-fashioned glamour, plenty of good food and of course great wine, the Icewine Festival Gala is a can't miss event for anyone who loves Ontario wine. After the hectic late-summer and autumn harvest period, where winery staff work nearly non-stop trying to make this year's [...]
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One of the truly unique things about Icewine is that compared with the great dessert wines of the world, it isn't limited to a single or a few grape varieties.
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The anchor event of the Icewine Festival is the Discovery Pass. This popular program allows each passholder to drop into any of the participating wineries over the last three weekends in January and enjoy a speciality food bite and wine pairing.
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If there's a poster child for the ethos of the what-doesn't-kill-you-only-makes-you-stronger philosophy, it's Icewine. After they finish harvesting the last of the grapes for table wine, Ontario's winemakers set their sights on this world-renown delicacy.
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The 2012 edition of the Niagara Icewine Festival begins with the popular and elegant gala. It's a night of fantastic food, VQA Icewine and table wine and a celebration of bringing the two together amongst great company.
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Prince Edward County is a tough place to make wine. It's cooler, wetter, and more prone to frost than Niagara. If that wasn't enough vinifera vines need to be buried to to survive the winter. This is extreme winemaking. It only gets harder to eek out a living the further south you go as [...]
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Ravine Vineyard is kind of like an old soul. Despite only being open a handful of years you get this underlying feeling that there's some deeper history there. When you do a little exploring you quickly find out that indeed the winery has an intrinsic connection to the land that reaches back to the [...]
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