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| Among the world’s fruit crops, wine grapes are the number one planted crop. There are 20 million acres of planted grapes worldwide. Canada’s wine history began with Viking explorer Leif Ericson. After finding grapevines growing when he landed in 1001 at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, he christened the country Vinland. Johann Schiller is known as the father of the Canadian wine industry. In 1811, he applied his expertise from Rhine winemaking to 400 acres of grapes planted in the Niagara region of Ontario. Today there are 114 wineries with in six provinces with Canadian wines consistently winning medals at international competitions. Not surprisingly, Canadians consume an average of 10.6 liters of wine per capita annually.
Most of Canada’s homegrown wine is produced in Ontario, where premier wine regions include the Niagara Peninsula, Lake Erie North Shore, and Pelee Island. Niagara Wineries benefit from the fact that wine producing grapes only grow in two geographical areas, just below and just above the equator.
Ontario wines are in the northern growing region of this wine belt and are just south of famous French regions. Ontario’s cool conditions enable us be the largest ice wine producer in the world. Our cool climate also produces grapes that are naturally higher in a chemical compound resveratrol. Resveratrol is an anti-oxidant in grape skins that protects the fruit against fungus attacks and appears to reduce fat and cholesterol in human blood which contribute to heart disease especially when consumed in wine. It also enables us to grow several unique hybrids (Baco Noir, Seyval Blanc, Marechal Foch, a cross between Pinot Noir and Gamay grapes, and Vidal, often used as the basis for our world renowned ice wine). Wineries such as Jackson Triggs, Vintners, Vineland Estates, Peller estates, Inniskilin dominate what locals refer as wine country offering a variety of tastings and tours of their world class vineyards and estates.
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