Wending Home
Wending: Travelling slowly, indirectly, yet purposefully. That’s how they make their wines. Veteran winemaker Ron Giesbrecht and partner Huaying Feng invite you to share both traditional varietals and uncommonly delicious blends. The added meaning of “Wending”, in Cantonese: Wen 問 ding 鼎, “to aspire to be the best”, manifested in every wine.
Bachelder
This Niagara winery makes wines from local terroirs, using “wild” (indigenous) yeasts, and grapes from older vineyard parcels when they can find them. They encourage low-impact viticulture – especially organics – wherever possible. Everything goes to barrels for long ageing and development – barrels carefully chosen for their “transparency” and ability to help express terroir.
Divergence Wines
Small and exclusive productions, made with hand-pick grapes sourced from select parcels within some of Niagara’s best vineyards and crafted to deliver quality.
For Divergence, quality is prioritized before quantity in every aspect of the product. Their wines focus on precision, authenticity, and texture as they seek to deliver a unique take on the best of what Niagara has to offer.
Hinterland Wine Company
Sparking wine for every occasion
“Authenticity is more important than trend and we believe where the grapes are grown matters. We also believe in the expression of terroir in wine. In Prince Edward County we observed our vineyards for three years and came to the conclusion in 2007 that we should make sparkling wine.“
Good Earth Food & Wine Co.
“Since 1998, when we opened our Niagara farm, home and hearts to our guests, The Good Earth has been a haven for discerning food and wine lovers and an oasis for the senses. Our gardens, orchards and vineyards provide a spectacular backdrop for wine and culinary experiences that reflect all the good things the earth has to offer.”
Fourth Wall Wines
Fourth Wall Wines is a nano-batch wine project focused on premium, Ontario VQA bottlings. They value character, authenticity, and acidity and each bottle produced is a proud collaboration with different winemakers, winedrinkers, and winethinkers.
Redtail Vineyard
Makers of great alt-wines that are varied in style. Some are polished and premium, others more fun and frivolous. They might be low intervention, sustainably farmed, or produced in small batches. Most of them are experimental in style. The Retail team has fun with these wines, in the cellar and in their design. What they have in common is that they’re the alternatives to the classics.
Trail Estate Winery
Drawn to the beauty of Prince Edward County, the owners started their entrepreneurial efforts by opening a bakery in 1978. Their approach to winemaking is to bring healthy dose of intuition and curiosity as to the craft. They want their wines to be equally ephemeral and to express the best this land has to offer. They believe every wine should be surprising, textural and soulful. Being true to nature means letting wild yeasts ferment their wines with as little intervention as possible.
Rosewood Estates Winery
This is a love story. The owners fell in love with the region on their honeymoon and 18 years later they bought the property. This Beamsville property was planted in 2003, and the original winery building was constructed in 2005. Rosewood opened its cellar door and bottle shop in 2008, and have been following their dreams ever since.
Hidden Bench
Hidden Bench Estate Winery is an artisanal, terroir-focused winery dedicated to crafting premium wines solely from their own certified organic estate vineyards situated within the Beamsville Bench VQA sub-appellation. Non-interventionist, quality-focused and terroir-driven, Hidden Bench has established an ongoing reputation for consistent excellence both domestically and internationally.
Therianthropy
Therianthropy is a winery project located in the emerging winegrowing region of Creemore Hills, Ontario, and was founded by a group of wine-loving humans who are passionate about cool climate winemaking. Their winemaking approach encompasses the use of organically farmed site-specific fruit, wild fermentations, low intervention, low to zero sulphite additions, no flavour or colour manipulation and no fining or filtering. Their wines are unique, interesting, and fun to drink!
Pearl Morissette
Situated in the Niagara region, this winery creates unique wines through a process of exploration and experimentation. They produce limited quantities of quality wine that reveal the beauty of their wine region. Their approach is very hands-off with low levels of intervention, and they see their job is to guide the wine as opposed to fixing the wine. Their grapes are carefully hand-picked solely on the basis of skin maturity. This approach enables each grape to impart its unique character in every glass.
Stanners Vineyard
Stanners Vineyard is a small family vineyard and boutique winery dedicated to producing premium Pinot Noir. Prince Edward County is a relatively cool winegrowing region. Whole berries with no crushing and whole berry fermentation allows for the retention of rich fruit flavours in order to balance the natural acidity produced by our cool climate. Skin contact for reds during fermentation is typically two to three weeks to enhance complexity. Minimal racking for both whites and reds allows for extended lees contact (no stirring) which again enhances the complexity and texture of the wine.
Domaine Queylus
Located atop the Niagara Escarpment in our renowned winemaking Niagara Region, Queylus combines a strong terroir with the dynamic experience of their Head Winemaker, Kelly Mason, to achieve exceptional elegance to our classically styled wines. Selecting only varieties which they have identified as perfectly adaptable to their vineyards’ complex soils and microclimate, they craft premium, cool-climate wines from Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Cabernet Franc, and Merlot.
Revel Cider
Founded in 2014, Revel uses characterful native yeast fermentations explore the endless flavours Ontario has to offer. Combining farm-grown and foraged fruits, discovering what the fermentation process yields, and aiming to bring out the best of each ingredient is what makes their products unique and delicious.