Ontario Viniculture Association Homepage

ONTARIO VINICULTURE ASSOCIATION
(OVA) Founded September, 2000
Renamed April 27, 2008
Awards won by Amateur grape wines grown outside traditional areas of Ontario.

Attend the 9th Annual Fruit Wine and Food Festival at Archibald Orchard Estate Winery on Saturday May 31
Click on the OVA Member Winery logos to see their Internet Websites.

{More wineries coming, and, yes, Virginia there really are grapes growing in Ontario, west of Lake Superior...}
OTHER COMMERCIAL MEMBERS OF OVA:

Left to right: Alain Breault, hardy vines, Abbotsford Qc

Maurice Lounsbury, Katelin Grapevines, Smithville
Carl Kimmett, hardy vines, Lindsay.

A few of the things that wine is made from in Central Ontario:

OVA would like to acknowledge the importance of the life-work of the great Elmer Swenson. Elmer is the Minnesota / Wisconsin grape breeder who created many of the vines which will make commercial viticulture possible in colder areas around the world. Thank-you Elmer!

MEMBERSHIP in OVA is open to any interested person, business or organization - amateur or commercial. If you want more information please contact OVA President Jim Warren by email. If you wish to join and pay your dues for 2008 please send a cheque made out in the name of treasurer "Liang Liu" for $25.00. The mailing address is 133 Parkdale Ave, Peterborough, Ontario, K9L 1K5.

See what we have been doing...

1. November 4, 2000 2. October 20, 2001 3. October 19, 2002 4. April 27, 2003
5. April 25, 2004 6. April 9, 2005 7. March 26, 2006 7. March 25, 2007 7. April 27, 2008

OVA BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2008 / 2009 OVA CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS

Quebec tour fall 2003. PEC tour fall 2004.
Owen Sound Seminars March 2005 COVA AWO Amateur Wine Award

Try matching some fruit wine with foods (and not just dessert)... See recipes using and matched to fruit wines courtesy of OVA member Sandy Archibald.

Cold-tolerant, disease-resistant vines exist in Minnesota and Quebec that are suitable to Zones 4, 5 and 6 - See the Canadian Plant Hardiness Zone Map. or or the US counterpart Properly matched to climate, these do not need winter burial. List of Hardy Vine suppliers

RESOURCES, ARTICLES AND LINKS
Fruit Wineries of Ontario Website
Grape Production Land in the Kawarthas by Ken Maltby
History of Viticulture in Central Ontario
Landot Noir, Landal Noir and Frontenac
Overwintering hardy varieties.
Winegrowing Outside Traditional Areas in Ontario (From OMAFRA)
Association des Viticulteurs de l'Est Ontarien
Peter Salonius' List of New Brunswick Hardy Cuttings
Minnesota Grape Growers Association
Northern Wine Work, the first cold-climate wine book
Quebec-hardy vines available (en Francais)
LA VIGNE DANS L'EST ONTARIEN a Pierre-Alain Blais et Denis Caron, chercheurs, Services Recherche et Transfert de technologie 1. Une culture tout à fait de mise!... 2. Une culture "grimpante" en popularité... 3. Protéger son investissement
Viticultural Roundtable of Southwest Ontario

Wine Growers www.littlefatwino.com