ALMA HOLLINGSHEAD Erie Shore Vineyard is located right at the 42nd parallel. Located just 600 meters from the shore of Lake Erie, the area is ideally suited for the production of world class grapes and wine. Erie Shore Vineyard is owned and operated by Harvey & Alma Hollingshead.Erie Shore Vineyard opened a winery store at the vineyard location on December 1st, 2002, offering VQA wines. This opening marked the 7th winery to open in recent times in Essex County. To date it remains the newest winery to open, although up to six more wineries are scheduled to open in 2005-2006 in the area. Erie Shore Vineyard is located 3.3 km (2 miles) west of the village of Colchester on Lake Erie and specializes in 100% estate grown VQA wines.
Erie Shore Vineyard wines have received numerous favorable reviews by critics, including 2001 VQA Summer Sun in Billy’s Best Bottles, Fall 2003, 2000 VQA Cabernet Franc in LCBO Food & Drink, Fall 2003 by Natalie MacLean, 2002 VQA Riesling, by the International Press Club, June 2004, to name a few. Our 2002 VQA Baco Noir was recently awarded Silver at the 2004 All-Canadian Wine Awards.
Erie Shore Vineyard wines are only available at the wine store located at the vineyard.
Click here for their website or you can Email Alma Hollingshead
DON PANAGAPKA is one of the best winemakers in Ontario (his amateur status does not limit this statement). A fierce competitor, Don has written an interesting article showing persistence and self-education entitled "Diary of a Winemaker" which I have included as his bio. The above was written by some little fat wino...
HANS PETER PFEIFER is a fulltime grapegrower for Euro
Nursery (100 acres in Harrow Ontario). Among other
duties, he is responsible for research, comparisons,
evaluations for scionwood and production of rootstock.
He is also very active in the The Viticultural Roundtable
of SouthWestern Ontario. Peter graduated from Geisenheim
University in 1979 with a double degree in viticulture
and winemaking. He spent 3 years at a German research
station (Neustadt/Weinstrasse) in grapegrafting and
rootstock research. He has been in the southwest since
1986 focusing on viticulture.
Email H Peter Pfeifer Or, read an article by Peter on Overwintering vines in Southwest Ontario or
Disease Resistant Hybrid Vines.
JOHN TUMMON is located on 3 acre residential property on the edge of the small town of
New Dundee just south west of Kitchener. He has fifty x 6 yr old vines,
half Lucy Kuhlmann and half Seyval and may plant more. He is a wine judge with
the Ontario Wine Judges Commission and past President of the KW Winemaker's
Guild. He has been making wine for over 15 years... "
Email John Tummon.
LESLIE HUFFMAN works for the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs at Harrow. She has been working as a Weed Management Specialist for Hort Crops for the past 5 years. Current projects on grapes include testing bioassays for evaluating grape sites after field crop herbicides, and developing new herbicides for minor use registrations in new vineyards. She has been working closely with
THE VITICULTURAL ROUNDTABLE OF SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO (click for website). since its inception, as well as developing
the OMAFRA Crops pages - see our Grape page (click for website)..
Leslie can be reached at:
Leslie Huffman, Weed Management Specialist (Hort Crops)
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
Research Centre, 2585 County Road 20, Harrow, Ontario, N0R 1G0
(519) 738-2251 ext 499, (519) 738-2929 (fax)
or by
Emailing her at OMAFRA
MICHAEL DUNN of Clos Michel-George (Waterloo), the world's smallest
appellation (Haha). Well, at least there's a fence! The fence (combined
with an elevation drop) shelters the vines and creates a warmer
nanoclimate. I love variety: this tiny vineyard is tightly packed with 75
vines (about 25 varieties include Chard, P.Noir, Baco, Traminette, Ries,
Vidal, DeChaunac, Madeleines, Ortega, Himrod, Siegerrebe,
Muller-Thurgau, Bacchus, Optima, Auxerrois,
and a lone (just for fun) Syrah! Many are own-rooted. The soil is very
dense clay and some vines are having trouble getting established. A
net will have to go up if 2000 is to become my first vintage
year! Email Michael Dunn (Ask about the LCBO listserver)
THE VITICULTURAL ROUNDTABLE OF SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO (click for website).The Roundtable hosts regular meetings and field visits and other forms of communication. The schedule is posted on the website above. This area now has about 1000 acres in vineyards, and four wineries (Pelee Island, Colio, Leblanc and D'Angelo). EMail the Roundtable.
