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Vineyard Management: How Growers Shape Your Wine

Vineyard Management: How Growers Shape Your Wine

Pruning, leaf pulling, yields, frost fans and harvest calls: the vineyard decisions you can taste. Part 3 of From Vine to Wine.

Vineyard Management: How Growers Shape Your Wine

Pruning, leaf pulling, yields, frost fans and harvest calls: the vineyard decisions you can taste. Part 3 of From Vine to Wine.

Limestone cliffs along the Niagara Escarpment overlooking a forested valley at Kelso Conservation Area in Ontario

The Growing Environment: Why Where a Grape Grow...

How climate, soil, slopes and water shape wine, why Niagara's lake and escarpment matter, and how climate change is moving wine regions.

The Growing Environment: Why Where a Grape Grow...

How climate, soil, slopes and water shape wine, why Niagara's lake and escarpment matter, and how climate change is moving wine regions.

Dormant winter grapevines with pruning shears, fresh spring buds, and ripe summer grapes showing the vine’s annual journey from dormancy to harvest.

The Vine: Meet the Plant Behind Every Glass of ...

Learn the difference between a grape crossing and a hybrid, why most vines are grafted, and how the grapevine's yearly cycle shapes your glass.

The Vine: Meet the Plant Behind Every Glass of ...

Learn the difference between a grape crossing and a hybrid, why most vines are grafted, and how the grapevine's yearly cycle shapes your glass.

Fracette: Inside Canada's Brand-New Sparkling Wine Category

Fracette: Inside Canada's Brand-New Sparkling W...

Fracette is Ontario's newly VQA-recognized sparkling wine style, made using Icewine instead of traditional dosage. Here's what it is, how it's made, which wineries just launched it, and what this...

Fracette: Inside Canada's Brand-New Sparkling W...

Fracette is Ontario's newly VQA-recognized sparkling wine style, made using Icewine instead of traditional dosage. Here's what it is, how it's made, which wineries just launched it, and what this...