Niagara's Wine Visionaries: Profiles of the Pioneering Winemakers

by Linda Bramble

Book Overview

As recently as the 1970s, the term "fine Ontario wine" was an oxymoron, and a bottle of Ontario wine at a wine-tasting produced skeptically raised eyebrows.

The Ontario wine industry in the Niagara region began to experiment as early as the 1920s with French varietals and hybrids -- only to have its efforts frustrated by Prohibition, government restrictions, the Depression, and a World War.

And yet today the wines of Ontario are among...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552774295
• ISBN13: 9781552774298
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Lorimer
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"