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.


 
   Applewood Farm Winery   Archibald Orchards Estate Winery   Chesslawn Vineyard and Winery   Coffin Ridge Boutique Winery   Colchester Ridge Estate Winery   Crown Bench Estate Winery   Kawartha Country Wines   Long Dog Winery   Moon Shadows Estate Winery   Mountain Road Estate Winery   Muskoka Lakes Winery   Ocala Winery   Sanson Estate Winery   Scotch Block Winery   Smith and Wilson Estate Wines   Villa Nova Estate Winery   Willow Springs Estate Winery


{More wineries coming, and, yes, Virginia there really are grapes growing in Ontario, west of Lake Superior...}

OTHER COMMERCIAL MEMBERS OF OVA:

Alain Breault, Quebec-hardy vine varieties                                                                                         Maurice Lounsbury, Katelin Grape Farm                                           Carl Kimmett, Kimdale Lane Tree Nursery (and vines)

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:
ApplesAronia aka ChokeberriesHoney / MeadBlackberriesBlack CurrantsBlueberriesCranberriesPearsPlumsRaspberriesRed CurrantsStrawberriesWhite GrapesRed Grapes
Elmer Swenson, grapebreeder 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

Ken Maltby, OMAFRAGrape Production Land in the Kawarthas by Ken Maltby

Wally's Folly Vineyard 1998History of Viticulture in Central Ontario

Landot Noir in Buckhorn, 1998Landot Noir, Landal Noir and Frontenac

Overwintering hardy varieties.

Winegrowing Outside Traditional Areas in Ontario (From OMAFRA)

Association des Viticulteurs de l'Est Ontarien

ZweigeltPeter Salonius' List of New Brunswick Hardy Cuttings

Minnesota Grape Growers Association

the only work about cold-climate grape growingNorthern Wine Work, the first cold-climate wine book

A&M Enterprises, QuebecQuebec-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.comkeep an eye on this clown for sure