20 Valley FAM Tour-BREAKFAST! - Sue-Ann Staff Estate Winery
August 18, 2016


January 2026

 

Niagara Grape & Wine Festival

ICEWINE DISCOVERY PASS

January 30-Feb 1

Get ready for a self-guided tasting tour through Niagara’s most scenic vineyards! The Icewine Discovery Pass pairs world-class Icewines with spicy, savoury, or sweet bites from inspired local chefs — the perfect way to warm up your winter weekends.

Our offering? Tinga, Tango, Taco! Imagine a juicy, spicy Tinga de Pollo (chicken in a smoky tomato/chipotle sauce) tucked into a warm, soft corn tortilla, dressed with lime crema and a cilantro garnish. Paired with our 2018 Vidal Icewine, it’s a divine marriage of spice and ice!

Find all the information and tickets online at niagarawinefestival.com

 

 

February 2026

Every Day Is Valentine's Day: Wine & Chocolate Flight

$20 pp

Available daily February 2 to March 1, 2026

Treat yourself and your favourite person to a Wine & Chocolate Flight and explore how two of the tastiest things in the world work together!

Includes three wines and three chocolate treats. The best part? You get to choose your wines based on our recommendations!

Swiss Milk Chocolate paired with your choice of:

  • Fancy Farm Girl Frosty Fizz
  • Riesling Loved By Lu
  • Bank Barn Baco

Dark Chocolate Covered Cherries (from our Vineland neighbours Cherry Lane) paired with your choice of:

  • Fancy Farm Girl Flirty Bubbles 
  • Fancy Farm Girl Flamboyant Red
  • The Gritstone Cabernet

White Chocolate Coconut Almond Confection paired with your choice of:

  • Lavelle's Vidal
  • Fancy Farm Girl Foxy Pink
  • Howard's Icewine Vidal

$20 per person. Reservations highly recommended to ensure best service, but walk-ins are always welcome. Reserve now: https://www.sue-annstaff.com/collections/tasting-flights/products/everyday-is-valentines-day-wine-chocolate-flight

 

 


Lu & Lavelle Sweet Treat Tasting

$10 pp

Available daily February 2 to March 1, 2026

Celebrate long-lasting love with this sweet treat!

Sue-Ann's grandparents Lula and Lavelle were married for over 60 years and were honoured by having their favourite wines named after them.  Enjoy a tasting of both Riesling Loved By Lu and Lavelle's Vidal along with a little sweet treat.  

Only $10 per person. Available daily February 2 to March 1, 2026. Reservations highly recommended to ensure best service, but walk-ins are always welcome. https://www.sue-annstaff.com/collections/tasting-flights/products/lu-lavelle-sweet-treat-tasting

 


collage image of Sue-Ann Staff in winter, three Icewine bottles in the snow, and the wine shop door in the background, tinted blue.

FLIGHT OF THE ICE QUEEN: Icewine Tasting

$20 pp

Available daily February 6 to March 2, 2026

No one loves making Icewine like Sue-Ann. And that's why we call her the Ice Queen!

This February we are celebrating Canada's liquid gold with The Flight of the Ice Queen, a unique tasting of three of Sue-Ann's finest Icewines, including past, present and future releases! 

  • 2018 Howard's Icewine Vidal (future-release)
  • 2017 Howard's Icewine Vidal (current release)
  • 2012 Howard's Icewine Vidal (library wine) 

Your flight includes an ounce of each Icewine, and each wine is perfectly paired with a gourmet tidbit.

$20 per person.

Available daily February 6 to March 2, 2026

Reservations highly recommended to ensure best service, but walk-ins are always welcome.  https://www.sue-annstaff.com/collections/tasting-flights/products/ice-flight

 

 

SAVE THE DATE!

The Winter Wine Trail, a collaborative event with Sue-Ann Staff Estate WInery, 180 Estate Winery, Malivoire Wine Co., Cave Spring Vineyards and Fielding Estate Winery is set for March 7 & 8, 2026. Stay tuned for details! 

 



20 Valley FAM Tour-BREAKFAST!

 

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Breakfast is at the winery which happens to also be Sue-Ann's home. Her new high-end oven is toast, but she quickly recovers with her old oven to whip up two different fritatas plus home fries, fruit salad, coffee and tasting setup for our gang. It's soon evident that nothing fazes Sue-Ann. The only action faster than her entertaining rapid-fire comments is how quickly she's rung up some 450 national and international wine maker awards.

Sue-Ann's pet Bernese 'Brix' steals the show with a Good Morning! tail wag for each of us while less sociable 'Shiraz' watches from under a chair.

The 104-acre farm which she shares with her brother's family next door is also a venue for weddings and special events. A semi-permanent tent with interlocking brick and stone dance floor (yes!) comes with the stipulation that only Staff wines come with the event. Not all that hard to take.

We move inside for a pinot noir and double sparkling tasting. The white she describes as an "easy, leesy, cheesey wine" which she named Irridescence "for life's changing colours." Fancy Farm Girl is her brand concept catering 'to what's in all of us'. (The other

f- words she reserves for the tractor when it doesn't start.)

Great breakfast morning with Sue-Ann Staff at the winery!
Canadian Chapter members of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) spent 2 days touring the wine and fruit producing region of Jordan under the hashtag banner#wherethehellsjordan. Hint: it's in the Niagara Peninsula, Ontario, Canada.
 
Creative development is taking root in the region. Unlike its well-known sister community of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Jordan is off the lake and slightly northwest. It's intimate, contagiously friendly and growing nicely with pride and care.


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