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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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With century-old barns, beautiful vistas of Lake Ontario and a serene bucolic calmness, over the past decade Prince Edward County has quickly gone from unknown to must-visit wine and culinary destination. Its rise is largely due to the dedication and passion of a few winemakers, viticulturists and winery owners who saw the region's potential [...]
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Another year and another ‘30 days of Ontario wine’ comes to an end. It has been a good year for our wines, and hopefully this year’s program was able to capture some of the local excitement.
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During a recent trip to the Prince Edward County, I spoke to five separate winemakers who are focusing on releases their first sparkling wines in the upcoming years. Today we take a look at one of the Wineries from the region that helped start the PEC bubbly movement.
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Taste Ontario – the annual 'taste and buy' event run by Vintages is on tonight at the Ritz-Carlton hotel. With a new venue and a lot of excitement behind new releases, nearly 600 industry professionals showed up to sample. The public tasting event runs tonight from 6:30pm to 9pm. We've put together a tasting [...]
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Temperamental, fragile, and disheartening. For winegrowers and winemakers the Noir grape of the Pinot family is a four letter word. I was once told that if you even think of giving a bunch of Pinot a funny look it will breakdown and turn on you. Despite all this the grape also elicits another four [...]
Continue Reading →There’s probably no better time to visit Prince Edward County than right now. Spring’s Scent is in the air, new wines are being released, and the maple syrup is flowing. The perfect retreat is something we all desire as we work through the corporate gauntlet, and this is it. A culinary destination in every [...]
Continue Reading →We already established that the culinary phenomenon named Countylicious was a great excuse to check out what Prince Edward County had on the table. Though alongside the amazing wineries and foods, there was also breathtaking nature to see and explore. This part of the tour, we focus on some of the prettier, greener adventures [...]
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