Wine Tour

Daughter L had a getaway with friends at Niagara on the Lake. She stayed at a nice hotel and took a fabulous wine tour. In addition to excellent and plentiful food and wine pairing samples, she learned so much. It seems the region is a wine micro climate similar to the wine regions in Europe. There is a concord grape that grows there naturally but they had trouble cultivating the fine grapes such as merlot, pinot noir, etc. They developed a grafting technique which allows these wine grapes to grow on the trunk of the concord grape vine. Now they export these quality grapes to the winemakers. In addition, there is a local winery that makes its own award winning and highly rated wines.

The nice part is that the hotel where L stayed left roses in her room each day so she saved them for me, as pictured above! She wants us all to go on this tour but I'm thinking I'd be drunk after tasting about 2 wines, that's me!