A TOUR OF NIAGARA WINERIES
By DEAN TUDOR
The Time and Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 all day
The Event: annual tour of Niagara wineries by Wine Council of Ontario for WWCC members. There were 11 of us.
The Venue: five wineries: Southbrook, Cattail Creek, Coyote’s Run, Ravine Vineyard (not yet open), and Niagara College Teaching Winery.
The Target Audience: WWCC wine writers.
The Availability/Catalogue: all wines are available, or will be, from the winery.
The Quote: “We need cool water – it was a scorcher of a day!”
The Wines: At Southbrook (581 Niagara Stone Road, RR4, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario L0S 1J0 Canada), we learned that the winery not only has a LEED gold status in its construction, but also that there is biodynamic winemaking (since 2006). They have a periwinkle blue wall (205 metres) that is spectacular. Shades of Pink Floyd…
