Summer is soon coming to Ontario, and with it will bring tourists from all over the province, all over Canada, and all over the world come to enjoy all that Toronto and the rest of Ontario have to offer. It’s a summertime tradition, and with a warm summer headed to Canada by all expert accounts, it will be a wonderful season to experience Ontario’s outstanding, world-class wineries.
One of the wineries that is preparing for a record-breaking summer season of tourists is Colio Wineries. Colio first opened the doors to its winery in 1980. In fact, it was the first Ontario winery to receive a license of operation since prohibition. Since the 1980s, the winery has grown to be one of the best wineries in Ontario. Both award-winning and picturesque, the winery is located in the Essex/Pelee Island Coast Wine Country, which is known for its natural beauty as well as the 2.5 million litres and 400,000 cases of wine that it produces over the course of each year.
The winery, like many Ontario wineries, offers tours of the premises for individuals, couples, and groups alike. These Ontario winery tours are available each day year round, but summer is the loveliest time of all to visit the winery. The tours include behind-the-scenes background experiences that fit the tastes of everyone from seasoned sommeliers to casual wine drinkers and everyone in between. During winery tours in the summer in Ontario, visitors can walk through the process of creating wines, from the stages of grape handling to wine processing to a look at the exclusive and exquisite climate-controlled barrel aging cellars. With availability for groups and bus tours by appointment as well as group rates and handicap and wheelchair access, Colio makes it easy to make the most of a visit to Canada’s wine region. It is truly a magical experience to tour an Ontario winery, and Colio provides one of the best loved in the province and in Canada.
Ontario’s wines are the product of four grape-growing areas, called appellations. These are the places in Ontario where the soil conditions are the most conducive to growing, and they include the Niagara Peninsula, the Lake Eerie North Shore, Pelee Island and Prince Edward County. All of these areas make excellent wine vacations, or side trips from locations such as Toronto and Niagara Falls. There is no doubt that this summer tourists will flock in their droves to all of them.
