The Winery Icellars of Niagara Peninsula of Ontario

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The winery offers 14 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.2.
It is ranked in the top 38 of the estates of Ontario.
It is located in Niagara Peninsula in the region of Ontario

The Winery Icellars is one of the world's great estates. It offers 14 wines for sale in of Niagara Peninsula to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Icellars wines

Looking for the best Winery Icellars wines in Niagara Peninsula among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Icellars 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 Icellars wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Icellars

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Icellars

How Winery Icellars wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of baked lasagna, ghormeh sabzi (iranian herbed lamb stew) or canned duck confit.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Icellars

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Icellars

  • 2015With an average score of 4.34/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.32/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.26/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.12/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Merlot
  • Pinot Noir
  • Shiraz/Syrah

Discovering the wine region of Niagara Peninsula

Niagara Peninsula is the largest and most productive viticultural area in Canada, located on the Southern shores of Lake Ontario. It stretches roughly 55km (35 miles) between the eastern limits of Hamilton city in the west and the left bank of the Niagara River as it flows into Lake Ontario. The VQA covers over 13,000 acres (5,200 hectares) oand produces mainly cool Climate varieties such as Riesling, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Cabernet Franc. It also produces a large Volume of ice wine.

Indeed, 90 percent of Canada's ice wine is made here, which makes the region the biggest producer of the style on earth. Needless to say, most other styles of wine are covered in Niagara Peninsula, from rosé and Sparkling wines, to Central-ranges/orange">Orange wines and Pét-nats (Pétillant naturels). The region boasts nearly 100 wineries, producing over 10 million litres of wine annually. The geographical Niagara Peninsula appears within the strip of land that runs west-to-east between Lake Ontario in the North and Lake Erie in the south.

The "peninsula" is formed by the Niagara River that flows northwards, between the two lakes. The river also marks the international boundary between Ontario, Canada and the US state of New York. The viticultural zone is confined to the northern half of the Peninsula, however, between the southern shore of Lake Ontario and the land just south of the Niagara Escarpment. The Escarpment, a 650-mile-long (1050km) limestone ridge that runs from upstate New York through the Great Lakes region, has a profound effect on the Terroir here.

The top white wines of Winery Icellars

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Icellars

How Winery Icellars wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of stuffed tomatoes, endives with smoked salmon au gratin or salmon and goat cheese quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Icellars

On the nose the white wine of Winery Icellars. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Icellars. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Icellars

  • 2014With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2016With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.01/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.00/5

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Sauvignon Blanc

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 pink wines of Winery Icellars

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Icellars

How Winery Icellars wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef miroton, truffade (auvergne - cantal - 15) or rabbit with white wine and mushrooms.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Icellars

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Icellars. often reveals types of flavors of red fruit.

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

  • Cabernet Franc

The word of the wine: Draft liquor

Liqueur composed of sugar dissolved in wine, used for the dosage of sparkling wines made by the traditional method. It is also known as "liqueur d'expédition" or "liqueur de dosage".

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Icellars

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

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). 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 grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

News about Winery Icellars and wines from the region

Best in Show: The top 50 wines of DWWA 2022

The 0.27% of entries awarded Best in Show at this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards reflect the inspiring world of wine and quest for quality among winemakers globally, with 50 wines expressing the best of their categories. An all-time record for wines tasted at the world’s largest wine competition, it’s quite possible that Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 marks the largest-ever wine competition to be held in history. And of the record-breaking 18,244 wines tasted, just 50 were ...

Best in Show: The top 50 wines of DWWA 2022

The 0.27% of entries awarded Best in Show at this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards reflect the inspiring world of wine and quest for quality among winemakers globally, with 50 wines expressing the best of their categories. An all-time record for wines tasted at the world’s largest wine competition, it’s quite possible that Decanter World Wine Awards 2022 marks the largest-ever wine competition to be held in history. And of the record-breaking 18,244 wines tasted, just 50 were ...

Tributes paid to Paul Pender

Canada’s wine community is mourning the sudden loss of beloved Ontario winemaker Paul Pender. Passing away at the age of just 54, Pender died ‘unexpectedly under tragic circumstances’ on 4 February, 2022, as announced by sister wineries Tawse and Redstone.    Before becoming director of viticulture and winemaking at Tawse and Redstone, he was a carpenter. When he developed an allergy to the dust and solvents, he went back to school to study winemaking at Niagara College in 2004. Pender’s interns ...

The word of the wine: Draft liquor

Liqueur composed of sugar dissolved in wine, used for the dosage of sparkling wines made by the traditional method. It is also known as "liqueur d'expédition" or "liqueur de dosage".