Highlights
- 5.5-hour wine-tasting tour in Niagara-on-the-Lake wine country
- Taste a variety of wines, including ice wine, at both boutique and large-production wineries (tasting fees included)
- Take a guided tour from the vineyard to the tasting room at a large showcase winery
- Enjoy a 3-course gourmet lunch or dinner at one of the area's most acclaimed restaurants
- Hotel pickup and drop-off included for Niagara-on-the-Lake or Niagara Falls, Ontario
- Small-group tour limited to 15 ensures a more intimate experience with your guide
Useful Information
Wine Tasting in Niagara-on-the-Lake
Wine-Tasting Tour with Lunch: Head first to one of the largest showcase wineries in the region: Pillitteri Estate, Jackson Triggs, Peller or Hillebrand Winery. Here, go on a guided vineyard-to-tasting-room tour of the winery, followed by a wine tasting. Your second stop will be at one of the many boutique, family-owned wineries of Niagara-on-the-Lake, such as Reif Estate Winery or Caroline Cellars, for more tastings of exquisite Canadian wine. After your tastings, make your way to one of the best winery restaurants in the area for a 3-course lunch of the freshest seasonal and regional foods.
Wine-Tasting Tour with Dinner: The first two stops of the dinner tour follow the same route as the lunch tour. You’ll then make an additional stop at another boutique winery before dinner starts at one of the most highly acclaimed winery restaurants in the Niagara-on-the-Lake area. Dine on a delicious 3-course dinner at either La Cachette or Pillar and Post; both restaurants use the freshest regional and seasonal ingredients to create some of the best cuisine in Ontario.
See the Itinerary section below for sample menus.
Itinerary
First Course, choice of:
Seasonally inspired soup du jour
Daily fish soup
Garden greens with black currant vinaigrette and toasted almonds
Main Course, choice of:
Asparagus, spring herb and brie omelet served with greens
Daily pasta feature
Fennel seed- crusted pork tenderloin with balsamic and pommery mustard sauce
Dessert, choice of:
Hazelnut- crusted lemon chèvre cheese cake
Cardamom- scented crème caramel
Coffee or Tea
Sample Dinner Menu at Pillar and Post (varies seasonally and by restaurant)
First Course, choice of:
Cesar salad (romaine tossed in garlic buttermilk dressing with shaved parmesan cheese, focaccia croutons and bacon bits)
Mixed greens (baby lettuces tossed with Vidalia onion vinaigrette and garnished with dried cherries, cranberries and toasted seeds)
Soup du jour
Main Course, choice of:
Marrakech salmon (baked Atlantic salmon with Moroccan spice and beet gaufrette, wilted rocket and pesto-smashed potato)
Maple Dijon- glazed chicken (mascarpone- and pecan-stuffed chicken with pesto pomme puree and haricots verts)
Slow-roasted prime rib (with horseradish jus and garlic and chive Yorkshire pudding)
Pan-fried gnocchi (with chorizo sausage, grilled corn, N icoise olives and crumbled feta cheese)
Dessert :
Chef's selection
Dinner includes a glass of house red or white wine and coffee or tea
Reviewed by Cathy T, November 2012
We loved our Niagara on the Lake wine tasting tour. There were six of us and we would all recommend it highly to friends. Our tour guide (Ian) was fantastic, very friendly, knowledgable and all around great guy. The wineries that were went to we very good and dinner at the final winery (Strewn) was excellent. Overall a very wonderful experience!! Thank you very much. Cathy
Reviewed by MICHAEL B, August 2012
The tour was very enjoyable and informative. Our guide was very personable and told us a lot about not only the wineries but some history of the area. We learned much about the wine industry that we did not know. Lunch was exceptional and paced well so we didn't feel as though we had to hurry. I would not hesitate to recommend this to others or even take the tour again if I am in the area again.
