The Winery Palatine Hills Estate of Niagara Peninsula of Ontario

Winery Palatine Hills Estate
The winery offers 30 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 233 of the estates of Ontario.
It is located in Niagara Peninsula in the region of Ontario

The Winery Palatine Hills Estate is one of the best wineries to follow in Niagara Peninsula.. It offers 30 wines for sale in of Niagara Peninsula to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Palatine Hills Estate wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Palatine Hills Estate

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Palatine Hills Estate

How Winery Palatine Hills Estate wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef pot au feu (grandma's style), lamb tagine with olives and honey or rabbit on the barbecue.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Palatine Hills Estate

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Palatine Hills Estate

  • 2016With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.96/5
  • 2010With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.84/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.74/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.68/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Palatine Hills Estate.

  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Malbec
  • Petit Verdot

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 Palatine Hills Estate

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Palatine Hills Estate

How Winery Palatine Hills Estate wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of filet mignon in a crust, salmon pave en papillotte or spinach and goat cheese quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Palatine Hills Estate

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

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Palatine Hills Estate

  • 2012With an average score of 3.99/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.78/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.64/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.30/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Palatine Hills Estate.

  • Chardonnay
  • Riesling
  • Gewürztraminer
  • Vidal
  • Pinot Gris
  • 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 sweet wines of Winery Palatine Hills Estate

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Palatine Hills Estate

How Winery Palatine Hills Estate wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of braciola (southern italy), lamb colombo or yassa chicken (senegal).

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Winery Palatine Hills Estate

On the nose the sweet wine of Winery Palatine Hills Estate. often reveals types of flavors of earth, citrus fruit.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Palatine Hills Estate

  • 2012With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.80/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Palatine Hills Estate.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Vidal

The word of the wine: Yeast

Micro-organisms at the base of all fermentative processes. A wide variety of yeasts live and thrive naturally in the vineyard, provided that treatments do not destroy them. Unfortunately, their replacement by laboratory-selected yeasts is often the order of the day and contributes to the standardization of the wine. Yeasts are indeed involved in the development of certain aromas.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Palatine Hills Estate

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 Palatine Hills Estate.

Discover the grape variety: Malbec

Malbec, a high-yielding red grape variety, produces tannic and colourful wines. It is produced in different wine-growing regions and changes its name according to the grape variety. Called Auxerrois in Cahors, Malbec in Bordeaux, it is also known as Côt. 6,000 hectares of the Malbec grape are grown in France (in decline since the 1950s). Malbec is also very successful in Argentina. The country has become the world's leading producer of Malbec and offers wines with great potential.

News about Winery Palatine Hills Estate 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 ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘Come on in, the flames said. Taste wine; avoid hypothermia’

Niagara’s summer? It’s hot, and sticky. I tried a walk near my hotel in mid-July but could only find a large retail mall. It was early; the shops were still shut. Even so, I had to dodge from awning to awning, avoiding the prosecuting sun. I’ve been there in autumn, too, which happened to be mellow and easeful – though it can also be wild, wind-whipped, rain-drenched. The ‘shoulder seasons’ are feared here: you never know what’s coming. The first time I went it was deepest winter. That made an i ...

The word of the wine: Yeast

Micro-organisms at the base of all fermentative processes. A wide variety of yeasts live and thrive naturally in the vineyard, provided that treatments do not destroy them. Unfortunately, their replacement by laboratory-selected yeasts is often the order of the day and contributes to the standardization of the wine. Yeasts are indeed involved in the development of certain aromas.