Top 100 white wines of Beamsville Bench

Discover the top 100 best white wines of Beamsville Bench of Niagara Peninsula as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the white wines that are popular of Beamsville Bench and the best vintages to taste in this region.

Discovering the wine region of Beamsville Bench

The wine region of Beamsville Bench is located in the region of Niagara Escarpment - Ontario of Ontario of Canada. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Thirty Bench or the Domaine Hidden Bench produce mainly wines white, red and sparkling. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Beamsville Bench are Chardonnay, Pinot noir and Riesling, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Beamsville Bench often reveals types of flavors of cream, petroleum or white peach and sometimes also flavors of honeysuckle, stone or grass.

In the mouth of Beamsville Bench is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 22 estates and châteaux in the of Beamsville Bench, producing 158 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Beamsville Bench go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison).

Discover the grape variety: Marsanne

Marsanne is a white grape variety that originated in Montélimar in the Drôme, several centuries ago. Marsanne is also found in Cassis, Savoie, Languedoc-Roussillon and Saint-Péray in the Ardèche, where it produces remarkable sparkling wines. The warm, sunny climate of the Rhone Valley, Languedoc-Roussillon and Provence, as well as the dry, stony soil, are ideal conditions for its development. Its bunches are quite large and provide small, juicy berries that are sensitive to grey rot and strong winds. These two grape varieties complement each other perfectly: together they give light wines with little acidity, aromas of yellow fruit, white fruit and flowers with notes of honey and liquorice. This is for example what the appellations Saint-Péray, Hermitage, Crozes-Hermitage, Saint-Joseph, Côtes-du-Vallée du Rhône, Corbières, or Cassis express... which represent about 700 hectares.

Food and wine pairing with a white wine of Beamsville Bench

white wines from the region of Beamsville Bench go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of roast pork orloff, christmas salad or magic cake cheese quiche.

News from the vineyard of Beamsville Bench

Burge is back in Krondorf winery – for the third time

The Krondorf facility is where Burge’s enigmatic wine empire began in 1978, when he created the successful Krondorf Wines label in partnership with the late Ian Wilson. After selling the Krondorf brand to Mildara Blass Wines, he bought the winery site to establish Grant Burge Wines in 1988, a label that grew to produce 750,000 dozen wines a year and turn over $70m. Grant Burge Wines is a brand now owned by Accolade Wines, having been sold by Burge and his wife Helen in January 2015 [announcement ...

Champagne houses announce ‘first’ with B Corp certification

The Champagne houses, part of the family-owned EPI Group, announced their B Corp certification after scoring 91.9 points in the assessment by B Lab, a non-profit network founded in 2006 with the aim of improving corporate performance in the spheres of social and environmental issues, plus accountability and transparency. The certification involves an assessment of the social and environmental impact of each brand through more than 200 questions concerning governance, employees, communities and t ...

Australian wine exports fall as China tariffs bite  

Australian wine exports dropped by 19% to A$2.08bn in the year to 30 June, said trade body Wine Australia this week. While exports to some countries rose, notably the US, the group’s report for the 2021-22 financial year offered fresh insight into a slide in shipments to China. Mainland China imposed varying import tariffs ranging from 116% to more than 200% on Australian bottled wines from late 2020 onwards. Exports to China, including Hong Kong and Macau, dropped by 74% in the 12 months to 30 ...