Ontario, Nova Scotia, & Quebec Flashcards
What are the three viticultural areas of Ontario?
Lake Erie North Shore
Niagara Peninsula
Prince Edward County
What is Canada’s largest producing province?
Ontario
Which appellation within Ontario was formally de-regulated in 2013?
Pelee Island
What are the two regional appellations of the Niagara Peninsula?
Niagara Escarpment
Niagara-on-the-Lake
When must producers declare their intent to produce ice wine?
November
How cold must it be for the harvest of Ice Wine?
-8 degrees Celsius
Where would you find Short Hills Bench, Beamsville Bench, and Twenty Mile Bench?
Niagara Escarpment
Where is the Niagara Peninsula?
The Southern shores of Lake Ontario and North of Lake Erie. The Niagara river forms the third side of the peninsula to the East
What is the Niagara Escarpment?
A limestone ridge that runs from upstate New York through the Great Lakes region
Where is Peller Estates?
Niagara Peninsula
What is Canada’s Southernmost wine region?
Pelee Island within Lake Erie North Shore
Where is Lake Erie North Shore?
East of Detroit and the Detroit River
South of Lake Saint Clair
North of Lake Erie
What soils does Prince Edward Country have?
Limestone with gravelly and sandy loam topsoils - similar to Burgundy
Where is Prince Edward County?
The North East Shore of Lake Ontario
What are the 3 most common white varieties of Nova Scotia?
Vidal
Seyval Blanc
L’Arcadie Blanc
What are the main wine-producing sub-regions of Nova-Scotia
Malagash Peninsula
Annapolis Valley
LaHave River Valley
Bear River Valley
What is Nova Scotia’s one official appellation? Where is it?
Tidal Bay in the Annapolis Valley
What two IGPs in Quebec were approved in 2018?
Vin du Québec IGP
Vin de glace du Québec IGP (for ice wine only)
Near which river is most of Québec’s vineyard land clustered?
The Saint Lawrence River
What are the 3 major grapes of Québec?
Marechal Foch, Seyval Blanc, and Vidal
