Canada

**Canada** is a cool-climate wine country best known internationally for one specialty: intensely sweet, concentrated Icewine made from grapes frozen on the vine. Beyond that headline, it produces increasingly respected dry table and sparkling wines from a handful of provinces. **Signature wines** — Icewine, most famously from Vidal and Riesling but also red Cabernet Franc; alongside it, crisp Rieslings, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and traditional-method sparkling wines. **Key regions** — Ontario's Niagara Peninsula, moderated by the Great Lakes, and British Columbia's Okanagan Valley are the two heavyweights, with smaller pockets in Nova Scotia and elsewhere. **Good to know** — Canada's VQA (Vintners Quality Alliance) system certifies origin and standards, and its Icewine rules are strict: grapes must be naturally frozen and pressed while still frozen, which is why cold-winter Canada became the world's most reliable large-scale producer of the style.

Wines

• Apérose Lot 0126 — Sainte-Famille
• Baco Noir — Riverview Cellars Estate Winery
• Baco Noir Abbey's Hawk's Flight Reserve — Sprucewood Shores Estate Winery
• Big Bear Dream — Foreign Affair Winery
• Bruce Trail Red — Vieni Estates
• Bâtard Pinot Noir — Domaine Houde
• Cabernet - Merlot — Tawse
• Cabernet Franc — VQA Niagara Escarpment
• Cabernet Franc — Vineland Estates Winery
• Cabernet Franc Cabernet Sauvignon Meritage — Lola
• Cabernet Sauvignon — Rosewood Winery
• Cabernet Sauvignon — Two Sisters Vineyards
• Cabernet Sauvignon — Revel Cellars
• Cabernet Sauvignon Cask Series — Two Sisters Vineyards
• Cousins Germains — Chateau Les Ouches
• Cream — Foreign Affair Winery
• Cuvée Catharine Rosé Brut — Henry of Pelham
• Estate Chardonnay — Westcott Vineyards
• Estate Pinot Noir — Westcott Vineyards
• Estate Series Cabernet-Merlot — No. 99 Wayne Gretzky Estates