https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canadaen-USTelligent Community 13https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canadaFri, 30 Jan 2026 19:06:37 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930deaStacy Ladenburgerhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada#commentsCurrent Revision posted to Expert Guides by Stacy Ladenburger on 1/30/2026 7:06:37 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>History</li> <li>Canadian Wine in Context</li> <li>Canadian Wine Law</li> <li>The Grapes of Canada</li> <li>British Columbia</li> <li>Ontario</li> <li>Quebec</li> <li>Nova Scotia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is a big country with a small wine industry, and, for many years, its wines were little known internationally. The exception was Icewine, the supersweet wine that, beginning in the 1990s, became a successful export, especially in China. These days, quality Canadian table wines are popular on the domestic market, and they are increasingly appearing on wine lists throughout the world.</p> <p><a name="01"></a></p> History <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is one of the youngest winemaking countries in the Americas, but, paradoxically, it is possible that the very first wine in this part of the world was made there. Around 1000 CE, the Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson reached the east coast of present-day Canada, and one of his crew, a German from a wine-producing region, recognized grapevines growing wild. Eriksson named the area Vinland, and he established a winter camp there. The location was probably in what is now Quebec, on the north shore of the Gasp&eacute; Peninsula, which is the south shore of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It seems likely that Eriksson&rsquo;s crew, having exhausted the beer they brought with them, tried to make wine from the grapes.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Although elements of the story are debated by historians and archeologists, it is intriguing as the possible beginnings of wine production in Canada. There is no evidence that Canada&rsquo;s Indigenous peoples made wine or other alcoholic beverages, and winemaking was not resumed until other Europeans arrived and settled in the eastern regions in the 1600s.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">But just before that time, in 1535, in an echo of Leif Eriksson’s journey, the French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River and encountered an island where wild grapevines were growing up trees. He first named it the &#206;le de Bacchus, after the Roman god of wine, but then more strategically renamed it the &#206;le d’Orl&#233;ans after his patron, the duke</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: 'cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930dea' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Preview</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada/revision/57Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:46:29 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930deaStacy Ladenburgerhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada#commentsRevision 57 posted to Expert Guides by Stacy Ladenburger on 1/30/2026 4:46:29 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>History</li> <li>Canadian Wine in Context</li> <li>Canadian Wine Law</li> <li>The Grapes of Canada</li> <li>British Columbia</li> <li>Ontario</li> <li>Quebec</li> <li>Nova Scotia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is a big country with a small wine industry, and, for many years, its wines were little known internationally. The exception was Icewine, the supersweet wine that, beginning in the 1990s, became a successful export, especially in China. These days, quality Canadian table wines are popular on the domestic market, and they are increasingly appearing on wine lists throughout the world.</p> <p><a name="01"></a></p> History <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is one of the youngest winemaking countries in the Americas, but, paradoxically, it is possible that the very first wine in this part of the world was made there. Around 1000 CE, the Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson reached the east coast of present-day Canada, and one of his crew, a German from a wine-producing region, recognized grapevines growing wild. Eriksson named the area Vinland, and he established a winter camp there. The location was probably in what is now Quebec, on the north shore of the Gasp&eacute; Peninsula, which is the south shore of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It seems likely that Eriksson&rsquo;s crew, having exhausted the beer they brought with them, tried to make wine from the grapes.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Although elements of the story are debated by historians and archeologists, it is intriguing as the possible beginnings of wine production in Canada. There is no evidence that Canada&rsquo;s Indigenous peoples made wine or other alcoholic beverages, and winemaking was not resumed until other Europeans arrived and settled in the eastern regions in the 1600s.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">But just before that time, in 1535, in an echo of Leif Eriksson’s journey, the French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River and encountered an island where wild grapevines were growing up trees. He first named it the &#206;le de Bacchus, after the Roman god of wine, but then more strategically renamed it the &#206;le d’Orl&#233;ans after his patron, the duke</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: 'cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930dea' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Preview</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada/revision/56Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:45:09 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930deaStacy Ladenburgerhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada#commentsRevision 56 posted to Expert Guides by Stacy Ladenburger on 1/6/2026 10:45:09 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>History</li> <li>Canadian Wine in Context</li> <li>Canadian Wine Law</li> <li>The Grapes of Canada</li> <li>British Columbia</li> <li>Ontario</li> <li>Quebec</li> <li>Nova Scotia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is a big country with a small wine industry, and, for many years, its wines were little known internationally. The exception was Icewine, the supersweet wine that, beginning in the 1990s, became a successful export, especially in China. These days, quality Canadian table wines are popular on the domestic market, and they are increasingly appearing on wine lists throughout the world.</p> <p><a name="01"></a></p> History <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is one of the youngest winemaking countries in the Americas, but, paradoxically, it is possible that the very first wine in this part of the world was made there. Around 1000 CE, the Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson reached the east coast of present-day Canada, and one of his crew, a German from a wine-producing region, recognized grapevines growing wild. Eriksson named the area Vinland, and he established a winter camp there. The location was probably in what is now Quebec, on the north shore of the Gasp&eacute; Peninsula, which is the south shore of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It seems likely that Eriksson&rsquo;s crew, having exhausted the beer they brought with them, tried to make wine from the grapes.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Although elements of the story are debated by historians and archeologists, it is intriguing as the possible beginnings of wine production in Canada. There is no evidence that Canada&rsquo;s Indigenous peoples made wine or other alcoholic beverages, and winemaking was not resumed until other Europeans arrived and settled in the eastern regions in the 1600s.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">But just before that time, in 1535, in an echo of Leif Eriksson’s journey, the French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River and encountered an island where wild grapevines were growing up trees. He first named it the &#206;le de Bacchus, after the Roman god of wine, but then more strategically renamed it the &#206;le d’Orl&#233;ans after his patron, the duke</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: 'cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930dea' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Preview</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada/revision/55Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:35:01 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930deaStacy Ladenburgerhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada#commentsRevision 55 posted to Expert Guides by Stacy Ladenburger on 1/6/2026 10:35:01 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>History</li> <li>Canadian Wine in Context</li> <li>Canadian Wine Law</li> <li>The Grapes of Canada</li> <li>British Columbia</li> <li>Ontario</li> <li>Quebec</li> <li>Nova Scotia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is a big country with a small wine industry, and, for many years, its wines were little known internationally. The exception was Icewine, the supersweet wine that, beginning in the 1990s, became a successful export, especially in China. These days, quality Canadian table wines are popular on the domestic market, and they are increasingly appearing on wine lists throughout the world.</p> <p><a name="01"></a></p> History <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is one of the youngest winemaking countries in the Americas, but, paradoxically, it is possible that the very first wine in this part of the world was made there. Around 1000 CE, the Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson reached the east coast of present-day Canada, and one of his crew, a German from a wine-producing region, recognized grapevines growing wild. Eriksson named the area Vinland, and he established a winter camp there. The location was probably in what is now Quebec, on the north shore of the Gasp&eacute; Peninsula, which is the south shore of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It seems likely that Eriksson&rsquo;s crew, having exhausted the beer they brought with them, tried to make wine from the grapes.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Although elements of the story are debated by historians and archeologists, it is intriguing as the possible beginnings of wine production in Canada. There is no evidence that Canada&rsquo;s Indigenous peoples made wine or other alcoholic beverages, and winemaking was not resumed until other Europeans arrived and settled in the eastern regions in the 1600s.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">But just before that time, in 1535, in an echo of Leif Eriksson’s journey, the French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River and encountered an island where wild grapevines were growing up trees. He first named it the &#206;le de Bacchus, after the Roman god of wine, but then more strategically renamed it the &#206;le d’Orl&#233;ans after his patron, the duke</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: 'cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930dea' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Preview</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada/revision/54Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:41:43 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930deaJonathan Eichholzhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada#commentsRevision 54 posted to Expert Guides by Jonathan Eichholz on 4/23/2025 8:41:43 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>History</li> <li>Canadian Wine in Context</li> <li>Canadian Wine Law</li> <li>The Grapes of Canada</li> <li>British Columbia</li> <li>Ontario</li> <li>Quebec</li> <li>Nova Scotia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is a big country with a small wine industry, and, for many years, its wines were little known internationally. The exception was Icewine, the supersweet wine that, beginning in the 1990s, became a successful export, especially in China. These days, quality Canadian table wines are popular on the domestic market, and they are increasingly appearing on wine lists throughout the world.</p> <p><a name="01"></a></p> History <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is one of the youngest winemaking countries in the Americas, but, paradoxically, it is possible that the very first wine in this part of the world was made there. Around 1000 CE, the Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson reached the east coast of present-day Canada, and one of his crew, a German from a wine-producing region, recognized grapevines growing wild. Eriksson named the area Vinland, and he established a winter camp there. The location was probably in what is now Quebec, on the north shore of the Gasp&eacute; Peninsula, which is the south shore of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It seems likely that Eriksson&rsquo;s crew, having exhausted the beer they brought with them, tried to make wine from the grapes.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Although elements of the story are debated by historians and archeologists, it is intriguing as the possible beginnings of wine production in Canada. There is no evidence that Canada&rsquo;s Indigenous peoples made wine or other alcoholic beverages, and winemaking was not resumed until other Europeans arrived and settled in the eastern regions in the 1600s.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">But just before that time, in 1535, in an echo of Leif Eriksson’s journey, the French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River and encountered an island where wild grapevines were growing up trees. He first named it the &#206;le de Bacchus, after the Roman god of wine, but then more strategically renamed it the &#206;le d’Orl&#233;ans after his patron, the duke</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: 'cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930dea' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada/revision/53Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:34:15 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930deaJonathan Eichholzhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada#commentsRevision 53 posted to Expert Guides by Jonathan Eichholz on 2/11/2025 11:34:15 AM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>History</li> <li>Canadian Wine in Context</li> <li>Canadian Wine Law</li> <li>The Grapes of Canada</li> <li>British Columbia</li> <li>Ontario</li> <li>Quebec</li> <li>Nova Scotia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is a big country with a small wine industry, and, for many years, its wines were little known internationally. The exception was Icewine, the supersweet wine that, beginning in the 1990s, became a successful export, especially in China. These days, quality Canadian table wines are popular on the domestic market, and they are increasingly appearing on wine lists throughout the world.</p> <p><a name="01"></a></p> History <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is one of the youngest winemaking countries in the Americas, but, paradoxically, it is possible that the very first wine in this part of the world was made there. Around 1000 CE, the Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson reached the east coast of present-day Canada, and one of his crew, a German from a wine-producing region, recognized grapevines growing wild. Eriksson named the area Vinland, and he established a winter camp there. The location was probably in what is now Quebec, on the north shore of the Gasp&eacute; Peninsula, which is the south shore of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It seems likely that Eriksson&rsquo;s crew, having exhausted the beer they brought with them, tried to make wine from the grapes.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Although elements of the story are debated by historians and archeologists, it is intriguing as the possible beginnings of wine production in Canada. There is no evidence that Canada&rsquo;s Indigenous peoples made wine or other alcoholic beverages, and winemaking was not resumed until other Europeans arrived and settled in the eastern regions in the 1600s.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">But just before that time, in 1535, in an echo of Leif Eriksson’s journey, the French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River and encountered an island where wild grapevines were growing up trees. He first named it the &#206;le de Bacchus, after the Roman god of wine, but then more strategically renamed it the &#206;le d’Orl&#233;ans after his patron, the duke</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: 'cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930dea' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Preview</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada/revision/52Mon, 08 Jul 2024 17:17:49 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930deaJonathan Eichholzhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada#commentsRevision 52 posted to Expert Guides by Jonathan Eichholz on 7/8/2024 5:17:49 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>History</li> <li>Canadian Wine in Context</li> <li>Canadian Wine Law</li> <li>The Grapes of Canada</li> <li>British Columbia</li> <li>Ontario</li> <li>Quebec</li> <li>Nova Scotia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is a big country with a small wine industry, and, for many years, its wines were little known internationally. The exception was Icewine, the supersweet wine that, beginning in the 1990s, became a successful export, especially in China. These days, quality Canadian table wines are popular on the domestic market, and they are increasingly appearing on wine lists throughout the world.</p> <p><a name="01"></a></p> History <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is one of the youngest winemaking countries in the Americas, but, paradoxically, it is possible that the very first wine in this part of the world was made there. Around 1000 CE, the Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson reached the east coast of present-day Canada, and one of his crew, a German from a wine-producing region, recognized grapevines growing wild. Eriksson named the area Vinland, and he established a winter camp there. The location was probably in what is now Quebec, on the north shore of the Gasp&eacute; Peninsula, which is the south shore of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It seems likely that Eriksson&rsquo;s crew, having exhausted the beer they brought with them, tried to make wine from the grapes.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Although elements of the story are debated by historians and archeologists, it is intriguing as the possible beginnings of wine production in Canada. There is no evidence that Canada&rsquo;s Indigenous peoples made wine or other alcoholic beverages, and winemaking was not resumed until other Europeans arrived and settled in the eastern regions in the 1600s.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">But just before that time, in 1535, in an echo of Leif Eriksson’s journey, the French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River and encountered an island where wild grapevines were growing up trees. He first named it the &#206;le de Bacchus, after the Roman god of wine, but then more strategically renamed it the &#206;le d’Orl&#233;ans after his patron, the duke</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: 'cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930dea' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Preview</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada/revision/51Fri, 05 Jul 2024 14:20:32 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930deaJonathan Eichholzhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada#commentsRevision 51 posted to Expert Guides by Jonathan Eichholz on 7/5/2024 2:20:32 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>History</li> <li>Canadian Wine in Context</li> <li>Canadian Wine Law</li> <li>The Grapes of Canada</li> <li>British Columbia</li> <li>Ontario</li> <li>Quebec</li> <li>Nova Scotia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is a big country with a small wine industry, and, for many years, its wines were little known internationally. The exception was Icewine, the supersweet wine that, beginning in the 1990s, became a successful export, especially in China. These days, quality Canadian table wines are popular on the domestic market, and they are increasingly appearing on wine lists throughout the world.</p> <p><a name="01"></a></p> History <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is one of the youngest winemaking countries in the Americas, but, paradoxically, it is possible that the very first wine in this part of the world was made there. Around 1000 CE, the Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson reached the east coast of present-day Canada, and one of his crew, a German from a wine-producing region, recognized grapevines growing wild. Eriksson named the area Vinland, and he established a winter camp there. The location was probably in what is now Quebec, on the north shore of the Gasp&eacute; Peninsula, which is the south shore of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It seems likely that Eriksson&rsquo;s crew, having exhausted the beer they brought with them, tried to make wine from the grapes.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Although elements of the story are debated by historians and archeologists, it is intriguing as the possible beginnings of wine production in Canada. There is no evidence that Canada&rsquo;s Indigenous peoples made wine or other alcoholic beverages, and winemaking was not resumed until other Europeans arrived and settled in the eastern regions in the 1600s.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">But just before that time, in 1535, in an echo of Leif Eriksson’s journey, the French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River and encountered an island where wild grapevines were growing up trees. He first named it the &#206;le de Bacchus, after the Roman god of wine, but then more strategically renamed it the &#206;le d’Orl&#233;ans after his patron, the duke</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: 'cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930dea' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Preview</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada/revision/50Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:18:13 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930deaGuildSomm Adminhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada#commentsRevision 50 posted to Expert Guides by GuildSomm Admin on 6/18/2024 3:18:13 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>History</li> <li>Canadian Wine in Context</li> <li>Canadian Wine Law</li> <li>The Grapes of Canada</li> <li>British Columbia</li> <li>Ontario</li> <li>Quebec</li> <li>Nova Scotia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is a big country with a small wine industry, and, for many years, its wines were little known internationally. The exception was Icewine, the supersweet wine that, beginning in the 1990s, became a successful export, especially in China. These days, quality Canadian table wines are popular on the domestic market, and they are increasingly appearing on wine lists throughout the world.</p> <p><a name="01"></a></p> History <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is one of the youngest winemaking countries in the Americas, but, paradoxically, it is possible that the very first wine in this part of the world was made there. Around 1000 CE, the Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson reached the east coast of present-day Canada, and one of his crew, a German from a wine-producing region, recognized grapevines growing wild. Eriksson named the area Vinland, and he established a winter camp there. The location was probably in what is now Quebec, on the north shore of the Gasp&eacute; Peninsula, which is the south shore of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It seems likely that Eriksson&rsquo;s crew, having exhausted the beer they brought with them, tried to make wine from the grapes.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Although elements of the story are debated by historians and archeologists, it is intriguing as the possible beginnings of wine production in Canada. There is no evidence that Canada&rsquo;s Indigenous peoples made wine or other alcoholic beverages, and winemaking was not resumed until other Europeans arrived and settled in the eastern regions in the 1600s.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">But just before that time, in 1535, in an echo of Leif Eriksson’s journey, the French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River and encountered an island where wild grapevines were growing up trees. He first named it the &#206;le de Bacchus, after the Roman god of wine, but then more strategically renamed it the &#206;le d’Orl&#233;ans after his patron, the duke</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: 'cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930dea' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Preview</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada/revision/49Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:20:53 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930deaSandra Banhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada#commentsRevision 49 posted to Expert Guides by Sandra Ban on 6/18/2024 2:20:53 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>History</li> <li>Canadian Wine in Context</li> <li>Canadian Wine Law</li> <li>The Grapes of Canada</li> <li>British Columbia</li> <li>Ontario</li> <li>Quebec</li> <li>Nova Scotia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is a big country with a small wine industry, and, for many years, its wines were little known internationally. The exception was Icewine, the supersweet wine that, beginning in the 1990s, became a successful export, especially in China. These days, quality Canadian table wines are popular on the domestic market, and they are increasingly appearing on wine lists throughout the world.</p> <p><a name="01"></a></p> History <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is one of the youngest winemaking countries in the Americas, but, paradoxically, it is possible that the very first wine in this part of the world was made there. Around 1000 CE, the Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson reached the east coast of present-day Canada, and one of his crew, a German from a wine-producing region, recognized grapevines growing wild. Eriksson named the area Vinland, and he established a winter camp there. The location was probably in what is now Quebec, on the north shore of the Gasp&eacute; Peninsula, which is the south shore of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It seems likely that Eriksson&rsquo;s crew, having exhausted the beer they brought with them, tried to make wine from the grapes.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Although elements of the story are debated by historians and archeologists, it is intriguing as the possible beginnings of wine production in Canada. There is no evidence that Canada&rsquo;s Indigenous peoples made wine or other alcoholic beverages, and winemaking was not resumed until other Europeans arrived and settled in the eastern regions in the 1600s.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">But just before that time, in 1535, in an echo of Leif Eriksson’s journey, the French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River and encountered an island where wild grapevines were growing up trees. He first named it the &#206;le de Bacchus, after the Roman god of wine, but then more strategically renamed it the &#206;le d’Orl&#233;ans after his patron, the duke</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: 'cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930dea' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada/revision/48Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:15:17 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930deaSandra Banhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada#commentsRevision 48 posted to Expert Guides by Sandra Ban on 6/18/2024 2:15:17 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>History</li> <li>Canadian Wine in Context</li> <li>Canadian Wine Law</li> <li>The Grapes of Canada</li> <li>British Columbia</li> <li>Ontario</li> <li>Quebec</li> <li>Nova Scotial</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is a big country with a small wine industry, and, for many years, its wines were little known internationally. The exception was Icewine, the supersweet wine that, beginning in the 1990s, became a successful export, especially in China. These days, quality Canadian table wines are popular on the domestic market, and they are increasingly appearing on wine lists throughout the world.</p> <p><a name="01"></a></p> History <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is one of the youngest winemaking countries in the Americas, but, paradoxically, it is possible that the very first wine in this part of the world was made there. Around 1000 CE, the Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson reached the east coast of present-day Canada, and one of his crew, a German from a wine-producing region, recognized grapevines growing wild. Eriksson named the area Vinland, and he established a winter camp there. The location was probably in what is now Quebec, on the north shore of the Gasp&eacute; Peninsula, which is the south shore of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It seems likely that Eriksson&rsquo;s crew, having exhausted the beer they brought with them, tried to make wine from the grapes.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Although elements of the story are debated by historians and archeologists, it is intriguing as the possible beginnings of wine production in Canada. There is no evidence that Canada&rsquo;s Indigenous peoples made wine or other alcoholic beverages, and winemaking was not resumed until other Europeans arrived and settled in the eastern regions in the 1600s.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">But just before that time, in 1535, in an echo of Leif Eriksson’s journey, the French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River and encountered an island where wild grapevines were growing up trees. He first named it the &#206;le de Bacchus, after the Roman god of wine, but then more strategically renamed it the &#206;le d’Orl&#233;ans after his patron, the duke</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: 'cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930dea' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada/revision/47Fri, 14 Jun 2024 20:17:44 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930deaGuildSomm Adminhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada#commentsRevision 47 posted to Expert Guides by GuildSomm Admin on 6/14/2024 8:17:44 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>History</li> <li>Canadian Wine in Context</li> <li>Canadian Wine Law</li> <li>The Grapes of Canada</li> <li>British Columbia</li> <li>Ontario</li> <li>Quebec</li> <li>Nova Scotial</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is a big country with a small wine industry, and, for many years, its wines were little known internationally. The exception was Icewine, the supersweet wine that, beginning in the 1990s, became a successful export, especially in China. These days, quality Canadian table wines are popular on the domestic market, and they are increasingly appearing on wine lists throughout the world.</p> <p><a name="01"></a></p> History <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is one of the youngest winemaking countries in the Americas, but, paradoxically, it is possible that the very first wine in this part of the world was made there. Around 1000 CE, the Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson reached the east coast of present-day Canada, and one of his crew, a German from a wine-producing region, recognized grapevines growing wild. Eriksson named the area Vinland, and he established a winter camp there. The location was probably in what is now Quebec, on the north shore of the Gasp&eacute; Peninsula, which is the south shore of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It seems likely that Eriksson&rsquo;s crew, having exhausted the beer they brought with them, tried to make wine from the grapes.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Although elements of the story are debated by historians and archeologists, it is intriguing as the possible beginnings of wine production in Canada. There is no evidence that Canada&rsquo;s Indigenous peoples made wine or other alcoholic beverages, and winemaking was not resumed until other Europeans arrived and settled in the eastern regions in the 1600s.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">But just before that time, in 1535, in an echo of Leif Eriksson’s journey, the French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River and encountered an island where wild grapevines were growing up trees. He first named it the &#206;le de Bacchus, after the Roman god of wine, but then more strategically renamed it the &#206;le d’Orl&#233;ans after his patron, the duke</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: 'cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930dea' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada/revision/46Fri, 14 Jun 2024 19:38:05 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930deaSandra Banhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada#commentsRevision 46 posted to Expert Guides by Sandra Ban on 6/14/2024 7:38:05 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>History</li> <li>Canadian Wine in Context</li> <li>Canadian Wine Law</li> <li>The Grapes of Canada</li> <li>British Columbia</li> <li>Ontario</li> <li>Quebec</li> <li>Nova Scotial</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is a big country with a small wine industry, and, for many years, its wines were little known internationally. The exception was Icewine, the supersweet wine that, beginning in the 1990s, became a successful export, especially in China. These days, quality Canadian table wines are popular on the domestic market, and they are increasingly appearing on wine lists throughout the world.</p> <p><a name="01"></a></p> History <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is one of the youngest winemaking countries in the Americas, but, paradoxically, it is possible that the very first wine in this part of the world was made there. Around 1000 CE, the Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson reached the east coast of present-day Canada, and one of his crew, a German from a wine-producing region, recognized grapevines growing wild. Eriksson named the area Vinland, and he established a winter camp there. The location was probably in what is now Quebec, on the north shore of the Gasp&eacute; Peninsula, which is the south shore of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It seems likely that Eriksson&rsquo;s crew, having exhausted the beer they brought with them, tried to make wine from the grapes.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Although elements of the story are debated by historians and archeologists, it is intriguing as the possible beginnings of wine production in Canada. There is no evidence that Canada&rsquo;s Indigenous peoples made wine or other alcoholic beverages, and winemaking was not resumed until other Europeans arrived and settled in the eastern regions in the 1600s.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">But just before that time, in 1535, in an echo of Leif Eriksson’s journey, the French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River and encountered an island where wild grapevines were growing up trees. He first named it the &#206;le de Bacchus, after the Roman god of wine, but then more strategically renamed it the &#206;le d’Orl&#233;ans after his patron, the duke</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: 'cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930dea' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada/revision/45Fri, 14 Jun 2024 16:40:38 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930deaGuildSomm Adminhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada#commentsRevision 45 posted to Expert Guides by GuildSomm Admin on 6/14/2024 4:40:38 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>History</li> <li>Canadian Wine in Context</li> <li>Canadian Wine Law</li> <li>The Grapes of Canada</li> <li>British Columbia</li> <li>Ontario</li> <li>Quebec</li> <li>Nova Scotial</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is a big country with a small wine industry, and, for many years, its wines were little known internationally. The exception was Icewine, the supersweet wine that, beginning in the 1990s, became a successful export, especially in China. These days, quality Canadian table wines are popular on the domestic market, and they are increasingly appearing on wine lists throughout the world.</p> <p><a name="01"></a></p> History <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is one of the youngest winemaking countries in the Americas, but, paradoxically, it is possible that the very first wine in this part of the world was made there. Around 1000 CE, the Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson reached the east coast of present-day Canada, and one of his crew, a German from a wine-producing region, recognized grapevines growing wild. Eriksson named the area Vinland, and he established a winter camp there. The location was probably in what is now Quebec, on the north shore of the Gasp&eacute; Peninsula, which is the south shore of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It seems likely that Eriksson&rsquo;s crew, having exhausted the beer they brought with them, tried to make wine from the grapes.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Although elements of the story are debated by historians and archeologists, it is intriguing as the possible beginnings of wine production in Canada. There is no evidence that Canada&rsquo;s Indigenous peoples made wine or other alcoholic beverages, and winemaking was not resumed until other Europeans arrived and settled in the eastern regions in the 1600s.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">But just before that time, in 1535, in an echo of Leif Eriksson’s journey, the French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River and encountered an island where wild grapevines were growing up trees. He first named it the &#206;le de Bacchus, after the Roman god of wine, but then more strategically renamed it the &#206;le d’Orl&#233;ans after his patron, the duke</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: 'cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930dea' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada/revision/44Fri, 14 Jun 2024 16:31:36 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930deaGuildSomm Adminhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada#commentsRevision 44 posted to Expert Guides by GuildSomm Admin on 6/14/2024 4:31:36 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>History</li> <li>Canadian Wine in Context</li> <li>Canadian Wine Law</li> <li>The Grapes of Canada</li> <li>British Columbia</li> <li>Ontario</li> <li>Quebec</li> <li>Nova Scotial</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is a big country with a small wine industry, and, for many years, its wines were little known internationally. The exception was Icewine, the supersweet wine that, beginning in the 1990s, became a successful export, especially in China. These days, quality Canadian table wines are popular on the domestic market, and they are increasingly appearing on wine lists throughout the world.</p> <p><a name="01"></a></p> History <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is one of the youngest winemaking countries in the Americas, but, paradoxically, it is possible that the very first wine in this part of the world was made there. Around 1000 CE, the Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson reached the east coast of present-day Canada, and one of his crew, a German from a wine-producing region, recognized grapevines growing wild. Eriksson named the area Vinland, and he established a winter camp there. The location was probably in what is now Quebec, on the north shore of the Gasp&eacute; Peninsula, which is the south shore of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It seems likely that Eriksson&rsquo;s crew, having exhausted the beer they brought with them, tried to make wine from the grapes.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Although elements of the story are debated by historians and archeologists, it is intriguing as the possible beginnings of wine production in Canada. There is no evidence that Canada&rsquo;s Indigenous peoples made wine or other alcoholic beverages, and winemaking was not resumed until other Europeans arrived and settled in the eastern regions in the 1600s.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">But just before that time, in 1535, in an echo of Leif Eriksson’s journey, the French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River and encountered an island where wild grapevines were growing up trees. He first named it the &#206;le de Bacchus, after the Roman god of wine, but then more strategically renamed it the &#206;le d’Orl&#233;ans after his patron, the duke</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: 'cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930dea' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada/revision/43Fri, 14 Jun 2024 16:27:53 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930deaGuildSomm Adminhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada#commentsRevision 43 posted to Expert Guides by GuildSomm Admin on 6/14/2024 4:27:53 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>History</li> <li>Canadian Wine in Context</li> <li>Canadian Wine Law</li> <li>The Grapes of Canada</li> <li>British Columbia</li> <li>Ontario</li> <li>Quebec</li> <li>Nova Scotial</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is a big country with a small wine industry, and, for many years, its wines were little known internationally. The exception was Icewine, the supersweet wine that, beginning in the 1990s, became a successful export, especially in China. These days, quality Canadian table wines are popular on the domestic market, and they are increasingly appearing on wine lists throughout the world.</p> <p><a name="01"></a></p> History <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is one of the youngest winemaking countries in the Americas, but, paradoxically, it is possible that the very first wine in this part of the world was made there. Around 1000 CE, the Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson reached the east coast of present-day Canada, and one of his crew, a German from a wine-producing region, recognized grapevines growing wild. Eriksson named the area Vinland, and he established a winter camp there. The location was probably in what is now Quebec, on the north shore of the Gasp&eacute; Peninsula, which is the south shore of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It seems likely that Eriksson&rsquo;s crew, having exhausted the beer they brought with them, tried to make wine from the grapes.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Although elements of the story are debated by historians and archeologists, it is intriguing as the possible beginnings of wine production in Canada. There is no evidence that Canada&rsquo;s Indigenous peoples made wine or other alcoholic beverages, and winemaking was not resumed until other Europeans arrived and settled in the eastern regions in the 1600s.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">But just before that time, in 1535, in an echo of Leif Eriksson’s journey, the French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River and encountered an island where wild grapevines were growing up trees. He first named it the &#206;le de Bacchus, after the Roman god of wine, but then more strategically renamed it the &#206;le d’Orl&#233;ans after his patron, the duke</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: 'cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930dea' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada/revision/42Fri, 14 Jun 2024 16:15:48 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930deaGuildSomm Adminhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada#commentsRevision 42 posted to Expert Guides by GuildSomm Admin on 6/14/2024 4:15:48 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>History</li> <li>Canadian Wine in Context</li> <li>Canadian Wine Law</li> <li>The Grapes of Canada</li> <li>British Columbia</li> <li>Ontario</li> <li>Quebec</li> <li>Nova Scotial</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is a big country with a small wine industry, and, for many years, its wines were little known internationally. The exception was Icewine, the supersweet wine that, beginning in the 1990s, became a successful export, especially in China. These days, quality Canadian table wines are popular on the domestic market, and they are increasingly appearing on wine lists throughout the world.</p> <p><a name="01"></a></p> History <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is one of the youngest winemaking countries in the Americas, but, paradoxically, it is possible that the very first wine in this part of the world was made there. Around 1000 CE, the Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson reached the east coast of present-day Canada, and one of his crew, a German from a wine-producing region, recognized grapevines growing wild. Eriksson named the area Vinland, and he established a winter camp there. The location was probably in what is now Quebec, on the north shore of the Gasp&eacute; Peninsula, which is the south shore of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It seems likely that Eriksson&rsquo;s crew, having exhausted the beer they brought with them, tried to make wine from the grapes.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Although elements of the story are debated by historians and archeologists, it is intriguing as the possible beginnings of wine production in Canada. There is no evidence that Canada&rsquo;s Indigenous peoples made wine or other alcoholic beverages, and winemaking was not resumed until other Europeans arrived and settled in the eastern regions in the 1600s.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">But just before that time, in 1535, in an echo of Leif Eriksson’s journey, the French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River and encountered an island where wild grapevines were growing up trees. He first named it the &#206;le de Bacchus, after the Roman god of wine, but then more strategically renamed it the &#206;le d’Orl&#233;ans after his patron, the duke</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: 'cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930dea' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada/revision/41Fri, 14 Jun 2024 16:10:48 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930deaGuildSomm Adminhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada#commentsRevision 41 posted to Expert Guides by GuildSomm Admin on 6/14/2024 4:10:48 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>History</li> <li>Canadian Wine in Context</li> <li>Canadian Wine Law</li> <li>The Grapes of Canada</li> <li>British Columbia</li> <li>Ontario</li> <li>Quebec</li> <li>Nova Scotial</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is a big country with a small wine industry, and, for many years, its wines were little known internationally. The exception was Icewine, the supersweet wine that, beginning in the 1990s, became a successful export, especially in China. These days, quality Canadian table wines are popular on the domestic market, and they are increasingly appearing on wine lists throughout the world.</p> <p><a name="01"></a></p> History <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is one of the youngest winemaking countries in the Americas, but, paradoxically, it is possible that the very first wine in this part of the world was made there. Around 1000 CE, the Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson reached the east coast of present-day Canada, and one of his crew, a German from a wine-producing region, recognized grapevines growing wild. Eriksson named the area Vinland, and he established a winter camp there. The location was probably in what is now Quebec, on the north shore of the Gasp&eacute; Peninsula, which is the south shore of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It seems likely that Eriksson&rsquo;s crew, having exhausted the beer they brought with them, tried to make wine from the grapes.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Although elements of the story are debated by historians and archeologists, it is intriguing as the possible beginnings of wine production in Canada. There is no evidence that Canada&rsquo;s Indigenous peoples made wine or other alcoholic beverages, and winemaking was not resumed until other Europeans arrived and settled in the eastern regions in the 1600s.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">But just before that time, in 1535, in an echo of Leif Eriksson’s journey, the French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River and encountered an island where wild grapevines were growing up trees. He first named it the &#206;le de Bacchus, after the Roman god of wine, but then more strategically renamed it the &#206;le d’Orl&#233;ans after his patron, the duke</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: 'cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930dea' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada/revision/40Fri, 14 Jun 2024 16:04:32 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930deaGuildSomm Adminhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada#commentsRevision 40 posted to Expert Guides by GuildSomm Admin on 6/14/2024 4:04:32 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>History</li> <li>Canadian Wine in Context</li> <li>Canadian Wine Law</li> <li>The Grapes of Canada</li> <li>British Columbia</li> <li>Ontario</li> <li>Quebec</li> <li>Nova Scotial</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is a big country with a small wine industry, and, for many years, its wines were little known internationally. The exception was Icewine, the supersweet wine that, beginning in the 1990s, became a successful export, especially in China. These days, quality Canadian table wines are popular on the domestic market, and they are increasingly appearing on wine lists throughout the world.</p> <p><a name="01"></a></p> History <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is one of the youngest winemaking countries in the Americas, but, paradoxically, it is possible that the very first wine in this part of the world was made there. Around 1000 CE, the Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson reached the east coast of present-day Canada, and one of his crew, a German from a wine-producing region, recognized grapevines growing wild. Eriksson named the area Vinland, and he established a winter camp there. The location was probably in what is now Quebec, on the north shore of the Gasp&eacute; Peninsula, which is the south shore of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It seems likely that Eriksson&rsquo;s crew, having exhausted the beer they brought with them, tried to make wine from the grapes.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Although elements of the story are debated by historians and archeologists, it is intriguing as the possible beginnings of wine production in Canada. There is no evidence that Canada&rsquo;s Indigenous peoples made wine or other alcoholic beverages, and winemaking was not resumed until other Europeans arrived and settled in the eastern regions in the 1600s.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">But just before that time, in 1535, in an echo of Leif Eriksson’s journey, the French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River and encountered an island where wild grapevines were growing up trees. He first named it the &#206;le de Bacchus, after the Roman god of wine, but then more strategically renamed it the &#206;le d’Orl&#233;ans after his patron, the duke</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: 'cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930dea' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada/revision/39Fri, 14 Jun 2024 16:02:38 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930deaGuildSomm Adminhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada#commentsRevision 39 posted to Expert Guides by GuildSomm Admin on 6/14/2024 4:02:38 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>History</li> <li>Canadian Wine in Context</li> <li>Canadian Wine Law</li> <li>The Grapes of Canada</li> <li>British Columbia</li> <li>Ontariop</li> <li>Quebec</li> <li>Nova Scotial</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is a big country with a small wine industry, and, for many years, its wines were little known internationally. The exception was Icewine, the supersweet wine that, beginning in the 1990s, became a successful export, especially in China. These days, quality Canadian table wines are popular on the domestic market, and they are increasingly appearing on wine lists throughout the world.</p> <p><a name="01"></a></p> History <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is one of the youngest winemaking countries in the Americas, but, paradoxically, it is possible that the very first wine in this part of the world was made there. Around 1000 CE, the Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson reached the east coast of present-day Canada, and one of his crew, a German from a wine-producing region, recognized grapevines growing wild. Eriksson named the area Vinland, and he established a winter camp there. The location was probably in what is now Quebec, on the north shore of the Gasp&eacute; Peninsula, which is the south shore of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It seems likely that Eriksson&rsquo;s crew, having exhausted the beer they brought with them, tried to make wine from the grapes.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Although elements of the story are debated by historians and archeologists, it is intriguing as the possible beginnings of wine production in Canada. There is no evidence that Canada&rsquo;s Indigenous peoples made wine or other alcoholic beverages, and winemaking was not resumed until other Europeans arrived and settled in the eastern regions in the 1600s.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">But just before that time, in 1535, in an echo of Leif Eriksson’s journey, the French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River and encountered an island where wild grapevines were growing up trees. He first named it the &#206;le de Bacchus, after the Roman god of wine, but then more strategically renamed it the &#206;le d’Orl&#233;ans after his patron, the duke</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: 'cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930dea' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada/revision/38Fri, 14 Jun 2024 16:01:20 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930deaGuildSomm Adminhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2681/canada#commentsRevision 38 posted to Expert Guides by GuildSomm Admin on 6/14/2024 4:01:20 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>History</li> <li>Canadian Wine in Context</li> <li>Canadian Wine Law</li> <li>The Grapes of Canada</li> <li>British Columbia</li> <li>Ontariop</li> <li>Quebec</li> <li>Nova Scotial</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is a big country with a small wine industry, and, for many years, its wines were little known internationally. The exception was Icewine, the supersweet wine that, beginning in the 1990s, became a successful export, especially in China. These days, quality Canadian table wines are popular on the domestic market, and they are increasingly appearing on wine lists throughout the world.</p> <p><a name="01"></a></p> History <p style="text-align:justify;">Canada is one of the youngest winemaking countries in the Americas, but, paradoxically, it is possible that the very first wine in this part of the world was made there. Around 1000 CE, the Icelandic explorer Leif Eriksson reached the east coast of present-day Canada, and one of his crew, a German from a wine-producing region, recognized grapevines growing wild. Eriksson named the area Vinland, and he established a winter camp there. The location was probably in what is now Quebec, on the north shore of the Gasp&eacute; Peninsula, which is the south shore of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It seems likely that Eriksson&rsquo;s crew, having exhausted the beer they brought with them, tried to make wine from the grapes.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Although elements of the story are debated by historians and archeologists, it is intriguing as the possible beginnings of wine production in Canada. There is no evidence that Canada&rsquo;s Indigenous peoples made wine or other alcoholic beverages, and winemaking was not resumed until other Europeans arrived and settled in the eastern regions in the 1600s.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">But just before that time, in 1535, in an echo of Leif Eriksson’s journey, the French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River and encountered an island where wild grapevines were growing up trees. He first named it the &#206;le de Bacchus, after the Roman god of wine, but then more strategically renamed it the &#206;le d’Orl&#233;ans after his patron, the duke</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: 'cf18218d-b7e5-4670-af8b-4252a6930dea' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div>