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This is my fourth year interviewing winemakers in Ontario about their latest grape harvest and wine production. To get a more complete picture of the harvest I asked the following questions to three winemakers in three different grape growing regions of southern Ontario, which should have some differences in climate and harvest. The three winemakers I interviewed this year are:…
Grange of Prince Edward Chardonnay Sur Lie 2019 (Sold Out at Winery) The other day, I opened up a bottle I’ve had since earlier this summer – Grange of Prince Edward Chardonnay Sur Lie 2019. So what’s Sur Lie mean? “Sur Lie” means that the wine has been kept in contact with the dead yeast cells and is not racked…
Hinterland Wine Co. Rosé 2016 Method Traditional (ON $39.75) Back after a few days in the woods and since I’ve been on a bubbly kick lately, it really should come as no surprise that one of the wines I packed for the getaway was a rosé bubbly. This one is a local beauty from Hinterland Wine Co. in Prince Edward…
Grange of Prince Edward 2013 County Crémant (ON $38) Today I wanted to highlight a beautiful sparkling wine from Prince Edward County, Ontario. Grange of Prince Edward’s 2013 County Crémant – becomes sometimes midweek just calls for bubbles. Am I right? First off, this colour, it’s so aesthetically pleasing. The grape varietals used in this crémant are Chardonnay, Pinot Noir,…
Karlo Estates Winery Estate Pinot Noir 2018 (ON $48) What better way to start the week than with a lovely Pinot Noir. This is an Ontario beauty from Karlo Estates Winery in Prince Edward County, also a winery that is North America’s first vegan-certified winery. In this gorgeous wine, I got so many traditional Pinot Noir notes like red cherries,…
You may not realize it but winemakers tend to travel across Canada and the world to make wines. In BC we do have winemakers from here, but there are many from New Zealand and also from the Niagara region in Ontario. I had a chance to interview Steve Latchford, one of the winemakers at Okanagan Crush Pad, during the Vancouver…
This is my second year interviewing winemakers in Ontario about their latest grape harvest and wine production. To get a more complete picture of the harvest I asked the following questions to three winemakers in three different grape growing regions of southern Ontario, which should have some differences in climate and harvest. The three winemakers I interviewed this year are:…
For the past few years, I have been covering the BC harvest by interviewing winemakers and finding out how the weather affected this year, what they may be doing new, and other tidbits of information. But I had not interviewed Ontario winemakers, to find out about their harvest, until today. I used basically the same questions to the BC and…
Cool climate areas are prime areas for making elegant sparkling wines. Champagne is a cool region in France, and is well-known for their sparkling wines, for example. In Canada our sparkling wine industry has been booming in my opinion. As I am in BC, I see a great growth in sparkling wine production, and I have seen sparkling wines from…
