Top 100 sweet wines of Ontario
Discover the top 100 best sweet wines of Ontario as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the sweet wines that are popular of Ontario and the best vintages to taste in this region.
Discovering the wine region of Ontario
World reference for Canadian Icewine: exceptional sweet wines from grapes frozen on the vine, golden colour, signature notes of candied apricot, mango, honey, citrus and exotic fruits, opulent sugar balanced by taut acidity (Vidal for fruit, Riesling for finesse). Cool-climate still wines: mineral, lively Riesling, precise Chardonnay, fine Pinot Noir (cherry, undergrowth), peppery Cabernet Franc. ~5,500 ha on the Niagara Peninsula between Lake Ontario and the escarpment, VQA.
Discover the grape variety: Riesling
Crystalline, taut whites with vibrant acidity and aromas of citrus, green apple, white flowers, vineyard peach and mineral/petrol notes with age. Made as dry (Trocken, Alsace), off-dry (Kabinett, Spätlese) and sweet (Auslese, Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese, late harvest). Star of the Moselle, Rheingau, Alsace AOC and Wachau. Also exported to Clare Valley and Finger Lakes.
Food and wine pairing with a sweet wine of Ontario
sweet wines from the region of Ontario go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of roast monkfish with bacon, quiche lorraine or gigolette of rabbit.
Organoleptic analysis of sweet wine of Ontario
On the nose in the region of Ontario often reveals types of flavors of butterscotch, pineapple or cream and sometimes also flavors of cherry, grapefruit or oaky. In the mouth in the region of Ontario is a powerful with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.
