Discover the top 100 best red wines of Niagara Escarpment - Ontario of Niagara Peninsula as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the red wines that are popular of Niagara Escarpment - Ontario and the best vintages to taste in this region.
VQA regional appellation of Ontario's bench lands (Short Hills, Twenty Mile and Beamsville Bench), north-facing slopes beneath the Escarpment, fossiliferous sedimentary dolomites, lake trapping warm air, ridge reflecting lake breezes. Riesling and Chardonnay reign as whites — tense, mineral-driven, citrus and saline notes. Cabernet Franc, Gamay Noir and Baco Noir in fine-berry reds, acclaimed icewine, temperate climate, late budbreak avoiding frost.
Elegant reds, light in colour with silky tannins, showing strawberry, cherry and raspberry aromas, evolving to forest floor, mushroom and spice with age. Fresh acidity, delicate finish. Star of the Côte d'Or (Romanée-Conti, Chambertin, Volnay), pillar of Champagne (Blanc de Noirs) and signature of Oregon, Central Otago and Sonoma Coast. An early-ripening Burgundian variety, one of the world's greatest.
red wines from the region of Niagara Escarpment - Ontario go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of navarin of lamb, gloom and doom or duck breast with honey sauce.
On the nose in the region of Niagara Escarpment - Ontario often reveals types of flavors of cherry, earth or red fruit and sometimes also flavors of black fruit, oaky or smoke. In the mouth in the region of Niagara Escarpment - Ontario is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
