56th Niagara Wine Festival
Published by Asya in Canada, Eating, Events, North America, Relaxing
Canada’s largest annual Icewine Festival is about to be launched this weekend with a myriad of wintry events along Niagara famous wine route. Starting Friday September
16th, Montebello Park in downtown St. Catharines will be the place to be for the next two weekends as the Balderson Wine Cheese and Food Experience brings over 40 Ontario wineries and restaurants together. Sample the best Niagara and Ontario has to offer, while enjoying wine seminars, art shows, children’s Grapeland, grape stomps, cooking demonstrations and big name jazz, blues and pop recording artists on the Main Stage. This year’s weekend headliners include Tributes to Chicago and Ray Charles on Friday evening, Sue Foley on Saturday night, and Ian Thomas on Sunday evening. Over 40 wineries are nestled in the rolling landscape of the Niagara Peninsula. The Niagara Peninsula is recognized globally as an outstanding wine producing region. Its soils are excellent and the climate is similar to that of great wine producing regions of the world such as Burgundy and Loire Valley of France plus New Zealand.
