Ontario Viniculture Association Homepage

ONTARIO VINICULTURE ASSOCIATION
(OVA) Founded September, 2000
Renamed April 27, 2008

"LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD FOR ONTARIO WINERIES"
View information releases about the Ontario wine industry or winery member websites by following the links and logos below.
# 1, May 2008 "What is OVA?" # 2, June 2008 "Canadian Food and Wine Labels"
# 3, July 2008 "Ontario Bans 'Ontario'"

also Dufferin Cottage Wines {email} and Fieldstone Estate Vineyards {email}

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

Alain Breault, hardy vines, Abbotsford Qc Dean Tudor, Wine Writer Diane Doiron, Magnificent Hill
Maurice Lounsbury, Katelin Grapevines, Smithville. Jim Hedges, Canadian Oak Barrels
Michael Pinkus, Ontario Wine Reviews Tony Aspler, The Wine Guy Watson Family Farms

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

OTHER WINE AND WINERY ASSOCIATIONS IN ONTARIO
The Ontario Viniculture Association recognizes the following Winery Associations within Ontario:
The Fruit Wineries of Ontario
The Ontario Wine Producers Association {please see their view of the Ontario winescape}
The Southwestern Ontario Vintners Association
The Prince Edward County Wine Region
Association des Viticulteurs de l'Est Ontarien
The Grape Growers of Ontario
The Wines of 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 are making 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 "OVA" or "Ontario Viniculture Association" 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

"SO WHAT IS VINICULTURE?"
OVA defines "Viniculture" as the growing and/or making of wine. Think of this as something like the French concept of "Terroir" except that OVA sees Viniculture as everything that affects the wine from the point of planning a wine/winery to the actual selling of the wine.
Awards won by Amateur grape wines grown outside traditional areas of Ontario.

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
Grape Production Land in the Kawarthas by Ken Maltby
History of Viticulture in Central Ontario
Landot Noir, Landal Noir and Frontenac
Overwintering hardy varieties.
Selling 100% Local Ontario Fruit Wine at Seasonal Farmers' Markets
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 � fait de mise!... 2. Une culture "grimpante" en popularit�... 3. Prot�ger son investissement
Viticultural Roundtable of Southwest Ontario

Wine Growers www.littlefatwino.com