Tag: Niagara-on-the-Lake

This is my eighth year interviewing winemakers or winery principals in Ontario about their latest grape harvest and wine production.  Now that it is late November and the wines are all in tanks or barrels, how did the Ontario grape growing season and harvest fare?  I interviewed three winemakers/winery principals this year: Ryan Oldridge, Winemaker at Colchester Ridge Estate Winery in…

Trius Winery, located in Niagara-on-the-Lake, traces its roots to the Hillebrand estate, where the Trius label was first introduced in 1989. Over time, the label gained prominence, most notably when Trius Red, a Bordeaux-style blend, became the first Canadian vintage to be named “Best Red Wine in the World” in 1991, putting Canadian wines on the global map.  In 2012,…

Don’t we all love sparkling wine, whether it is high end champagne, or cremants, cavas and more? At the third of the International Cool Climate Chardonnay Celebration seminars, we learned more about how dosage affects sparkling wines aromas, flavours, and balance.  This was a bit more technical in details compared to the other earlier seminars, but well worth it.  Sparkling…

Vines grow in soil.  The roots reach deep and bring in water and nutrients.  Soil matters, but how much, and is there a best soil type for Chardonnay? Are there particular flavours and aromas that can be associated with different soil types? This School of Cool seminar at the i4C, has set out to discuss, but not necessarily definitively answer…

The Seventh Annual International Cool Climate Chardonnay Celebration (i4C) has wrapped up in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.  It was a series of seminars, lunches, and dinners that filled an entire weekend from July 21-23, 2017.  I was privileged to be invited to attend this event; coming from British Columbia.  We are also a cool climate region, and I was glad to see…