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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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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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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A challenging month of eating vegetarian food continues as I toured through Niagara wine country last weekend.
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Growing up in small-town Ontario, and having a father who is a farmer by birth, I was quite familiar with where my food came from – and I’m not referring to the refrigerator or the grocery store. The farmer has always been at the very core of where all our food comes from, and [...]
Continue Reading →How do you follow-up a night of oysters and great blanc de blancs, a carefully-paired gourmet winemakers' lunch and a global tasting featuring over 100 cool climate Chardonnays? Sunday brunch at one of Niagara's most picturesque wineries.
Although the International Cool Climate Chardonnay Celebration officially finished with a tasting Sunday afternoon in Toronto, the [...]
Continue Reading →For an oenophile, this may well have been the event of the summer. The chance to taste over 100 cool climate Chardonnays from 56 producers from around the world overlooking the vines at Tawse winery was simply irresistible.
Sure, everyone could've used with a little less heat and humidity as Ontario [...]
Continue Reading →With a quarter century of winemaking experience, Cave Spring Cellars continues to be one of the leaders in the Niagara wine industry. The Beamsville Bench winery has done this by putting its trust in cool climate varieties of vitis vinifera – in particular Riesling – but also by investing in Chardonnay in 1978.
Although [...]
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