Just to let you know that we are nearing the end of this vintage.  We have marked it down to $13.95 until it is sold out.  Have a great weekend.

​SHORELINE
We have just released our classic Shoreline wine vintage with a beautiful new look.  The new Shoreline label now has an original, watercolour painting on the front label by local and well known and respected artist Sandra Ellis.  This original is a beautiful work of our Essex County, Lake Erie Shoreline and beautiful skyline, known for its spectacular sunrises and sunsets.   Our Erie Shore Vineyard logo, carefully superimposed over the painting, was created by another local artistic legend, Elio Del Col in 2003.  It also depicts our unique shoreline in a very different way.  Of course, the wine is our own delightful blend of grapes, grown right here at Erie Shore Vineyard and fermented in a Rosé style giving a pleasant cherry-pink colour and smooth flavours of strawberry, cherry, raspberry, rhubarb and hints of grapefruit.  
It is an excellent wine, especially on an Essex County Summer’s Day.

Good Friday, April 18th  1-6pm
Saturday, April 19th 10 am-6pm
Easter Sunday - Closed
Easter Monday, April 21st 1-6pm
​

Most of you are well aware that not only are all our products Product of Canada, they are also 100% Ontario and 100% Erie Shore Vineyard.  

Our monthly gift basket winners are called or texted that they have won.  We do not contact you by social media or any kind.  ​
You can enter to win at our winery or on the home page of this website.  Thank you to everyone who enters.

Great Introductory Price on our Newly released Cabernet Franc Classic!.  We invite you to come in and taste it.  We also have another great reason to visit_ our award winning Riesling Off Dry is also on special!  Cheers

These days there’s a refreshing “anything goes” mentality when it comes to wine, with people drinking rosé all winter long, pairing steak with Champagne and eschewing stemware for tumblers. As liberating and refreshing this mentality can be, however, there are still some no-no’s that can chip away at your enjoyment.
Global wine pros share six ways that you might be ruining your wine drinking experience—and easy ways to avoid them
​6 Common Ways You’re Ruining Your Wine—and How to Fix Them | Wine Enthusiast Magazine
​

​This name is always mentioned by the early French writers as meaning "cat"; Lac du Chat means "Lake of the Cat." ... Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes and is especially vulnerable to fluctuating water levels.

For example, although we may think Lake Erie possessed that name from its very beginning, we would be quite mistaken. On an early map (Sanson Map, 1650), the name of the Great Lake just east of the Detroit River appears as Lac Du Chat.
An English translation of this French name of course is Lake of the Cat. This name refers to a native clan of the Iroquois tribe that had settled upon its shores. The native name for their tribe was Erikons, which meant “Cat People”. In translation from the native dialect to the French language the name Erikon gradually became to be pronounced as Erie and, of course, that name has stuck ever since.

NAME: The greater part of Lake Erie’s southern shore was at one time occupied by a nation known to the Iroquois League as the “Erielhonan,” or the “long-tails,” a tribe of Indians from which the lake derived its name. This name is always mentioned by the early French writers as meaning “cat;” Lac du Chat means “Lake of the Cat.” Many attribute this reference to the wild cat or panther.

Another good read, with a second good link below and in the article to an online five week certification for wine enthusiasts or those interested in the industry.

​Ontario wines remain a world-class choice in face of U.S. tariffs | The Grower

Certification in Ontario wines:  ​Certification in Ontario Wines – Professional and Continuing Studies

​Ontario wines targeted by tariffs... Ontario!

(A slight inaccuracy in the 4 categories of wine.  ie IDB is not 25% hybrid, but requires 25% Ontario content.- otherwise well worth a read)