Visit: Monday to Saturday 10-6, Sunday 11-6 Taste: Wine service daily until 5:45 pm
Snack: Delicious, wine-friendly, seasonal fare available daily!
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When: Saturday and Sunday, October 25 & 26
What: It's the season to GET COZY! Help us celebrate the last weekend of the Moyer Marquee with live music, wine, food, cozy fire pits, lawn games and FUN.
Join us the weekend of October 25/26 for live music from BY DESIGN DUO (Saturday) and THE FEVERISH LEMONS ACOUSTIC DUO (Sunday), as well as award-winning wines and food by SMOKE & MOONSHINE FOOD TRUCK.
This is a free, outdoor event! Wine & food available for purchase. Dog friendly. Event open from 11 am to 5 pm both days, live entertainment 1 pm to 4 pm.
When: Saturday, November 1st 11-4:30, Sunday, November 2nd 11-4
Where: Sue-Ann Staff Estate Winery
What: Experience the best grilled cheese sandwiches of your life, each one perfectly paired with our wines! It’s a celebration of Sue-Ann’s long-time love affair with inventive grilled cheese sandwiches. “Why have tomato soup with your grilled cheese, when you could have wine?”
Ticket-holders are welcomed with a refreshing sip of our Fancy Farm Girl sparkling before setting off on a delicious cheese adventure. Four fabulous grilled cheese stations are set up throughout Sue-Ann’s home, each one offering delicious sandwich samples with our award-winning wines. MENU NOW AVAILABLE HERE!
$48.53 per person ($42.95+HST). Gluten Friendly timeslots available! Find all the details and buy your tickets online here: https://www.sue-annstaff.com/collections/events/products/sue-anns-great-grilled-cheese-extravaganza-2025
When: November 8 & 9 AND November 15 & 16
Get Wrapped Up is back on November 8-9 & 15-16! Pick your weekend and join us for festive food and wine pairings at 8 wineries of your choice for only $49.95.
With over 25 Niagara Benchlands Wineries to choose from, use your pass to visit your favourites and discover some new ones: 13th Street Winery (Saturday only), 180 Estate Winery, Calamus Estate Winery, Commisso Estate winery, Creekside Estate Winery, Dim Wine Co., Domaine Le Clos Jordanne, Fielding Estate Winery, Flat Rock Cellars, Harbour Estates Winery, Henry of Pelham Family Estate Winery, Kew Vineyards Estate Winery, King's Court Estate Winery, Malivoire Wine Company, Peninsula Ridge Estates Winery, Puddicombe Estate Winery, Redstone Winery, Ridgepoint Wines, Stonewall Estates, Sue-Ann Staff Estate Winery, Tawse Winery, The Organized Crime Winery Inc., Thirty Bench Winemakers, Vieni Estates, Vineland Estates Winery, Wending Home Estate Vineyards and Winery.
What: Purchase one ticket $49.95 + hst/fee per person and visit EIGHT participating wineries of your choice for a delicious wine & food sample. https://niagarabenchlandswineries.com/pages/events
When: November 29 & 30
Where: Sue-Ann Staff Estate Winery, 180 Estate Winery, Malivoire Wine Company, Cave Spring Winery, Fielding Estate Winery
What: We put the WIN in Winter Wine Trail. One ticket = five delicious wine and small bite pairings at five fabulous wineries. Stay tuned for details!
When: Saturday, December 13
Where: Sue-Ann Staff Estate Winer
What: It's our annual Open House! A one day event featuring wine, food and holiday shopping. A portion of ticket sales is donated to The Howard V. Staff Memorial Fund at the Niagara Community Foundation, supporting Community Care.
Watch this space for details and tickets!
This morning, I had a bit of fun thinking about what wines go with which Christmas cookies. It was especially fun since I was on 105.1 FM “The River” with my good friends Rob White and Tami Jenneret – a pair of exceptional radio personalities … and lovers of great wine!Truth #1 – it was their idea.
Truth #2 – I haven’t slept in a week thinking of the great cookie and wine combinations!
So, what did we come up with?
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Cookie
|
Wine |
Why |
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Shortbreads |
Sparkling Wines |
Shortbreads have so much butter that coats the palate. The acidity and effervescence of sparkling wine will cleanse and hydrate the palate from the shortbread. |
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Gingersnaps |
Gewürztraminer |
“Gewürz” means “spicy” in German. The spicy, clove, ginger note that is found in these wines will nicely link with the complex ginger and spice flavours in gingerbreads or gingersnaps. Look for Gewürztraminers with some residual sugar. |
|
Cherry bombs |
Rosé |
Rosé wines have a red berry note that pairs so well with other food with berries like cherries, raspberries, cranberry, etc. Rosés with a smidgen of residual sugar and either zippy acidity or elevated in alcohol will help make this pairing sing due to the similar flavours. |
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Milk chocolate |
Baco noir |
Milk chocolate has a low cocoa content. Baco has a low tannin level. So, the astringency links up between each. Milk chocolate also has milk solids that coats the palate. Baco has elevated acidity for a red wine that will cleanse the palate. A double win! |
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Dark chocolate |
Bordeaux Reds |
Dark chocolate has a high cocoa content that requires a wine with a higher tannin level to match the astringency. Add to that, Merlot often has a flavour that reminds people of chocolate, so it links up two ways. The dark berry characters of ripe and developed Cabernet francs and Cabernet Sauvignons are a refreshing fruity contrast to the gritty texture of dark chocolate. |
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Figs / dates |
Appassimento |
Dried fruit and highly intense fruit cakes need a wine with impact. Wines made from dried /raisined grapes like Amarone / Appassimento / Vin du Cure wines pair perfectly. They often have a bit of sweetness to match the sweetness of the cake/fruit and similar fruit flavour sensations that complement each other. |
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Peanut butter balls |
Nothing |
Maybe wine doesn’t pair with everything! Peanuts / peanut butter notes in a wine are a major fault / flaw. I can’t think of a single wine that I’d want to drink with a “peanut-butter-dominate” anything. If chocolate wraps around the peanut butter, then see above. If it doesn’t, then get out the spirits. |
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Almost any other cookie |
Icewine |
The wine, in most instances, should be sweeter than the food. Icewine will always make that happen. They are fruity, zippy, rich, seductive with luscious sweetness. We would also pair Icewine with any of the above-mentioned cookies. |
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