Visit: Monday to Saturday 10-6, Sunday 11-6 Taste: Wine service daily until 5:30 pm
Holiday Hours HERE. Check out our Events page HERE. Wine Club curious? Learn more HERE
When: Saturday, December 13, 11 - 5
Where: Sue-Ann Staff Estate Winery
What: Sue-Ann's Holiday Sip & Savour is back!
We are rolling out the red carpet for a delicious day of holiday flavours! Our Holiday Sip & Savour is the ultimate holiday open house for wine lovers and foodies alike!
Enjoy deluxe wine & food tasting stations on the way -- we are opening our premium wines, pairing them with delicious foods to warm and delight your senses. Plan to spend an amazing hour touring and tasting your way through Sue-Ann's home!
Tickets are $45+HST per person. $5 from each ticket sale will be donated to the Howard V. Staff Memorial Fund at the Niagara Community Foundation, supporting St. Catharines Community Care.
Buy your tickets here: https://www.sue-annstaff.com/collections/events/products/holiday-sip-savor-open-house-2025-45-hst
When: Saturday, December 20
Where: Sue-Ann Staff Estate Winery
What: Stop into the winery on Saturday, December 20th and join the fun! Try a selection of shortbreads while enjoying a glass of wine, and then cast your vote for the best cookie! It's a great little break from holiday fuss AND you can stock up on feast-worthy wines while you're at it! $10 per person, with $5 going to The Howard V. Staff Memorial Fund at the Niagara Community Foundation, supporting community care.
No advance tickets or reservations required, simply show up and pay $10 to cast your vote while enjoying a 5 oz glass of wine.
When: December 27 & 28, January 3 & 4
Where: Sue-Ann Staff Estate Winery
What: The Holiday Board: Flight & Bites is the perfect post-Christmas treat!
You've done all the cooking. You've done all the hosting. You've assembled, you've wrapped, you've done it all. Now it's your turn to sit back and relax!
Reserve your time now for an elevated wine tasting that will delight your senses, taking place December 27 & 28, January 3 & 4 at Sue-Ann Staff Estate Winery.
Enjoy a seated tasting of four wines, each one perfectly paired with a delectable small bite.
It's like a four-course meal...in miniature!
Fancy Farm Girl Flirty Bubbles sparkling rosé with Creamy Brie & Cranberry
The Louie Pinot Gris with Duck Rillette with Blueberry Jam & Cornichon
The Gritstone Cabernet with "SASsoulet", our deconstructed sausage cassoulet
Howard's Icewine Vidal with a White Chocolate Coconut Almond confection
$24.50 per person, reservations highly recommended! Book now: https://www.sue-annstaff.com/products/the-holiday-board-flight-bite-december-27-28-january-3-4
When: January 16-18,23-25, 30-February 1, 2026
Where: Sue-Ann Staff Estate Winery and other participating Niagara wineries!
What: Sip, Savour & Explore Niagara This Winter
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 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 you need here: https://niagarawinefestival.com/icewine-discovery-pass
ANDRE PROULX, GUEST COLUMNIST
On Tuesday morning I watched Premier Kathleen Wynne pat herself on the back and purchase the first six-pack of beer at a grocery store in Ontario.
I watch social media fill up with cheers and applause that we can finally — in late 2015 — get beer in a grocery store like so many civilized jurisdictions on the planet.
I do need to tip my hat to the province for allocating 50% of the shelf space to craft beers.
But I am still scratching my head figuring out how craft beer leapfrogged over our local wine producers to be put on such a pedestal.
It would appear that the provincial government is still in the process of giving the middle finger to small local producers of wine.
Don’t get me wrong I’m a huge fan of craft beer.
But it strikes me as odd that as a craft beer producer I could set up in any city or town in the province and have a shop within the city limits.
I can use ingredients that could largely be sourced from outside the province and produce it in the city.
Meanwhile, we are forcing our wineries to sell wine out of their cellar doors, largely located an hour or two outside of major urban centres.
If I don’t make enough wine I don’t even have access to the LCBO’s shelves and have to rely on word of mouth and people making the trek to my winery to taste my product.
Not to mention that VQA wines are made using 100% locally grown grapes while your favourite craft beer may well be sourcing their hops from outside the province.
As a producer of local wines, I am being denied access to the largest markets in the province.
What about Wine Rack and Wine Shop stores?
Both of these publicly-traded companies have grandfathered licences from pre-NAFTA times allowing them to carry wines from a handful of wineries.
Much of the wine sold in the Wine Rack is bulk wine made mostly from imported grapes, with some Canadian grapes.
In terms of the quality, I don’t feel they are a fair representation of wines produced in Ontario.
There are dozens of world-class wineries that don’t have access to the market solely because they aren’t producing enough wine to be listed at the LCBO.
When the Ontario government is asked why it’s taking so long to make the shift to selling wine in grocery stores the answer is invariably, “it’s complicated”.
I have a hard time taking that at face value given that in B.C. there are already a large number of private stores and even government-run ones that sell B.C. wines exclusively.
There is no excuse for Ontario to be so far behind.
There is no way that B.C. is so different from Ontario that it can serve as an excuse for hindering progress.
I’m looking forward to buying my first six-pack of beer from a grocery store. It’s a step in the right direction.
But don’t think for one minute I am going to raise my pint while thinking this is good enough.
It’s been 90 years since the end of prohibition and I’m sorry, Premier Wynne, but this is not good enough.
The fact it has taken 90 years to make this small change is not something to be celebrated. It’s a reminder of how our government continues to fail us.
— Proulx is a wine writer and has appeared on Global and CTV
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/12/15/why-no-wine-in-the-grocery-store-premier
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