This is my seventh year interviewing winemakers or winery principals in Ontario about their latest grape harvest and wine production. Now that it is early December and the wines are all in tanks or barrels, how did the Ontario grape growing season and harvest fare? I interviewed three winemakers/winery principals this year:
Chris Thompson, Winemaker at Lighthall Vineyards in Prince Edward County Jesse Horvath, Winemaker at Viewpointe Estate Winery in Lake Erie North Shore Rebecca Ruggeri, Winemaker at Lailey Wines in Niagara-on-the-Lake Where Are These Wineries?
Here is a Google map showing the location of the wineries, colour-coded to the winemaker names above.
My Interview with the Ontario Winemakers
Thank you to these winemakers for taking the time to answer my interview questions and let my readers find out more about their wineries and the progress of their 2024 grape harvest.
1. Where are your vineyards and winery are located?
Lighthall Vineyards barrels and aspiring winemaker
Chris: Prince Edward County, about 15 min south of Picton. We’re actually the southernmost vineyard & winery in PEC.
Jesse: The closest hamlet is Colchester, belonging to the town of Essex in the County of Essex. We have three vineyard locations in close proximity to each other, that offer slight micro-climate changes which can be tasted in the wines produced from each vineyard. The winery building itself sits on a bluff overlooking Lake Erie.
Rebecca: Lailey Winery is
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