The Winery Sandbanks of Ontario

Winery Sandbanks - Pinot Grigio
The winery offers 51 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 54 of the estates of Ontario.
It is located in Ontario

The Winery Sandbanks is one of the world's great estates. It offers 51 wines for sale in of Ontario to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Sandbanks wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Sandbanks

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Sandbanks

How Winery Sandbanks wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or mushrooms such as recipes of pumpkin and bacon pie, chicken with olives in a couscousier or soft and inexpensive pasta gratin.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Sandbanks

On the nose the white wine of Winery Sandbanks. often reveals types of flavors of citrus, apples or peach and sometimes also flavors of lemon, pear or fig. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Sandbanks. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Sandbanks

  • 2014With an average score of 3.96/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.71/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.58/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.58/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.56/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.55/5

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

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

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 red wines of Winery Sandbanks

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Sandbanks

How Winery Sandbanks wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef with panang curry (red curry), guinea fowl with olives or old-fashioned venison stew.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Sandbanks

On the nose the red wine of Winery Sandbanks. often reveals types of flavors of cherry, chocolate or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of vegetal, citrus fruit or dried fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Sandbanks. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Sandbanks

  • 2010With an average score of 4.05/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.86/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.84/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.83/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.79/5

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

  • Baco Noir
  • Marechal Foch
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Pinot Noir

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 Sandbanks

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Sandbanks

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

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Winery Sandbanks

On the nose the sweet wine of Winery Sandbanks. often reveals types of flavors of earth, tree fruit.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Sandbanks

  • 2012With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.90/5

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

  • Vidal

The word of the wine: Oxidation

Alteration of the wine caused by prolonged contact with oxygen and resulting in a coppery colour with brown reflections and the appearance of typical aromas reminiscent of rancid nuts.

The top pink wines of Winery Sandbanks

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Sandbanks

How Winery Sandbanks wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of locro criollo (argentina), endive frichti or wild boar leg of 7 hours.

Organoleptic analysis of pink wines of Winery Sandbanks

On the nose the pink wine of Winery Sandbanks. often reveals types of flavors of citrus fruit, red fruit or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of tropical fruit.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Sandbanks

  • 2019With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.60/5

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

  • Pinot Noir
  • Vidal
  • Gamay Noir
  • Muscat Blanc
  • Pinot Grigio

Discover the grape variety: Viognier

White Viognier is a grape variety that originated in France (Rhone Valley). 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 grapes of small size. White Viognier can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Rhone Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Savoie & Bugey, Provence & Corsica, Loire Valley, Beaujolais.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Sandbanks

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Sandbanks

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

Organoleptic analysis of sparkling wines of Winery Sandbanks

On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Sandbanks. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, red fruit.

The word of the wine: Thinning out

Operation consisting in eliminating the suckers that grow on the vine stocks.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Sandbanks

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 Sandbanks.

Discover the grape variety: Pinot

Pinot noir 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. Pinot noir can be found in many vineyards: Burgundy, Alsace, Jura, South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Armagnac, Lorraine, Beaujolais, Rhône Valley, Provence & Corsica.

News about Winery Sandbanks 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 ...

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 ...

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: Oxidation

Alteration of the wine caused by prolonged contact with oxygen and resulting in a coppery colour with brown reflections and the appearance of typical aromas reminiscent of rancid nuts.