The Winery Dark Horse of Ontario

Winery Dark Horse
The winery offers 24 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.5.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Ontario.
It is located in Ontario

The Winery Dark Horse is one of the best wineries to follow in Ontario.. It offers 24 wines for sale in of Ontario to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Dark Horse wines

Looking for the best Winery Dark Horse wines in Ontario among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Dark Horse wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Dark Horse wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Dark Horse

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Dark Horse

How Winery Dark Horse wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of simple pork roast, salmon steaks with soy sauce or genuine chicken tagine olive and lemon confit tagine with argan oil.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Dark Horse

On the nose the white wine of Winery Dark Horse. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Dark Horse. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Dark Horse

  • 2017With an average score of 3.76/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Dark Horse.

  • Riesling
  • Chardonnay
  • Gewürztraminer
  • Vidal
  • Pinot Grigio
  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discovering the wine region of Ontario

Ontario is the most populated and prolific wine producing province in Canada. The Long established wine industry here is centered around the Great Lakes of Erie and Ontario, where the continental Climate is moderated heavily by the large bodies of water. The majority of wines produced in Ontario are Dry table wines (around 60 percent are white and 40 percent red). They are mostly made from Riesling, Cabernet Franc, Chardonnay, and Pinot Noir.

However, the province is best known internationally for its ice wines, made mostly from Vidal or Riesling. Sunny summers in Ontario are followed by cold winters, making it an ideal setting for the production of the style. More ice wine is made here than anywhere else in the world. A number of curiosities are also produced in the province, including the relatively common mutation of Chardonnay called Chardonnay Musqué, Sparkling ice wine, and a growing trend to produce wines from Dried and semi-dried grapes in an amarone style.

Ontario covers around 415,000 square miles (1. 1 million square kilometers) of land, making it the fourth-largest province in Canada. Four out of the five Great Lakes have shorelines in the province, and the vast Hudson Bay touches Ontario's Northern border. Ontario subregions and growing conditions Most viticulture takes place in the Southern Part of the state in three officially-designated regional appellations Niagara Peninsula Complex and fragmented (see below) Lake Erie North Shore This includes Pelee Island, Canada's southernmost wine region Prince Edward County Another peninsula, on limestone.

The top pink wines of Winery Dark Horse

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Dark Horse

How Winery Dark Horse wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of borscht (russia), ham and cheese macaroni gratin or duck breast with apples.

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Dark Horse.

  • Cabernet Franc

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.

The top red wines of Winery Dark Horse

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Dark Horse

How Winery Dark Horse wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of meat and goat pie, pumpkin parmentier hash or home-made white pudding.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Dark Horse

On the nose the red wine of Winery Dark Horse. often reveals types of flavors of black fruit, non oak or earth and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Dark Horse. is a with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Dark Horse

  • 2015With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.38/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.32/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Dark Horse.

  • Cabernet Franc
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Baco Noir
  • Marquette
  • Pinot Noir

The word of the wine: Free-run wine

The free-run wine is the wine that flows out of the vat by gravity at the time of running off. The marc soaked in wine is then pressed to extract a rich and tannic wine. Free-run wine and press wine are then aged separately and eventually blended by the winemaker in proportions defined according to the type of wine being made.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Dark Horse

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Dark Horse

How Winery Dark Horse wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

Discover the grape variety: Marquette

Direct producer hybrid, interspecific cross between MN 1094 and Ravat noir obtained in 1989 by Peter Hemstad and James Luby at the University of Minnesota Research Center (United States). Note that it is the cousin of the black frontenac and the grandson of the pinot noir. It can be found in North America, Canada, ... in France it is almost unknown.

The top sweet wines of Winery Dark Horse

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Dark Horse

How Winery Dark Horse wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef bobotie, pork roulades with cream and mushrooms or fillet of venison.

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Dark Horse.

  • Cabernet Franc

The word of the wine: Malic (acid)

An acid that occurs naturally in many wines and is transformed into lactic acid during malolactic fermentation.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Dark Horse

Planning a wine route in the of Ontario? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Dark Horse.

Discover the grape variety: Gewurztraminer

Gewurztraminer rosé is a grape variety that originated in France. It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of vine is characterized by small bunches and small grapes. Gewurztraminer rosé can be found in many vineyards: Alsace, Loire Valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Jura, Champagne, Lorraine, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, South West.

News about Winery Dark Horse and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Free-run wine

The free-run wine is the wine that flows out of the vat by gravity at the time of running off. The marc soaked in wine is then pressed to extract a rich and tannic wine. Free-run wine and press wine are then aged separately and eventually blended by the winemaker in proportions defined according to the type of wine being made.