Category: Ontario Wine Industry Facts

Wine Country Ontario invites consumers to experience and learn why 100% locally grown Vintner’s Quality Alliance (VQA) wines taste better. Wine Country Ontario is dedicated to promoting Ontario’s wine-growing regions – Niagara Peninsula, Prince Edward County and Lake Erie North Shore. It is also an expression of the entirety of the Ontario wine-country experience: how the wine tastes, where it’s made, how it marries with local food, and how it reflects the overall lifestyle of each region. Wine Country Ontario is a place that is unlike anywhere else. It is a place where grape growers, winemakers, food artisans, chefs, B&B owners and innkeepers, tour guides and tourists come together to celebrate a culinary experience that is part of every culture in the world – but in a way that is uniquely our own. Wine Country Ontario is truly so much more than just a bottle of wine. Wine Country Ontario is a consumer facing brand of the Wine Marketing Association of Ontario.

Our Story: A Cool Climate Wine Region

Wine Country Ontario is situated between 41° and 44° North in the heart of the world's fine wine zone.  This is the same latitude shared by Burgundy and many other ...

Canadian Wine Regions

Canada's wine growing regions are situated within the recognized growing zones of 30 and 50 degrees latitude north, which is shared by many other cool climate wine regions in Europe. ...