The Winery Rockway of Niagara Peninsula of Ontario

Winery Rockway
The winery offers 48 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 676 of the estates of Ontario.
It is located in Niagara Peninsula in the region of Ontario
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The Winery Rockway is one of the best wineries to follow in Niagara Peninsula.. It offers 48 wines for sale in of Niagara Peninsula to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Rockway wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Rockway

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Rockway

How Winery Rockway wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of mushroom, bacon and gruyere quiche, tuna omelette or ham and comté quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Rockway

On the nose the white wine of Winery Rockway. often reveals types of flavors of earth, tree fruit or citrus fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Rockway. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Rockway

  • 2013With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.30/5

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

  • Riesling
  • Chardonnay
  • Vidal

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 red wines of Winery Rockway

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Rockway

How Winery Rockway wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or veal such as recipes of roast monkfish with bacon, lamb tagine with honey and onions or veal shoulder with cream and tarragon.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Rockway

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Rockway

  • 2012With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.66/5

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

  • Cabernet Franc
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Pinot Noir
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Baco Noir
  • Malbec

Discover the grape variety: Riesling

White Riesling is a grape variety that originated in France (Alsace). It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. 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 Riesling can be found in many vineyards: Alsace, Loire Valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Lorraine, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, South West.

The top pink wines of Winery Rockway

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Rockway

How Winery Rockway wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of caramelized beef with onions, leg of lamb in a herb crust with preserved vegetables or home-made white pudding.

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Vidal

The word of the wine: Clone

A vine propagated from a single specimen (by cuttings or grafting), as opposed to mass selection, which starts from a family of vines.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Rockway

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 Rockway.

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

News about Winery Rockway 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: ‘Perhaps they think “drinkers like oak”. Really?’

An electronic dart was tossed at us recently by Decanter reader Tim Frances from Kent. It landed on the screen of our magazine editor Amy Wislocki; Amy lobbed it across the virtual room to me, suggesting a column-length reply. ‘Here’s a poser,’ Tim began. ‘How do your experts grade a wine that they find intellectually well made, but that they truly madly deeply dislike? I’ve tasted wines I can admire dispassionately, but would stab my feet with forks rather than drink them. Must be a conundrum f ...

The word of the wine: Clone

A vine propagated from a single specimen (by cuttings or grafting), as opposed to mass selection, which starts from a family of vines.