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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Check out our Events page HERE. Wine Club curious? Learn more HERE
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, 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: It's the most elegant wine trail yet! One ticket = five delicious wine and small bite pairings at five fabulous wineries PLUS five bottles to take home!
Tickets on sale soon. Stay tuned for details!
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
A Fancy Farm Girl Wins at Annual Cuvée Gala
The most prestigious “Tony Aspler Cuvée Award of Excellence” bestowed on Niagara’s Sue-Ann Staff
JORDAN, ON. — A unwavering passion for grapes and wine that has already spanned a 31-year commitment has taken Sue-Ann Staff around the globe several times. Through all her travels and experience crafting award-winning wines, one truth remains evident to her. She loves the farm.
The sights, the smells, the sounds and, perhaps most importantly, the lifestyle is the attraction. As a seventh-generation farmer (fifth generation grape grower) in the heart of Ontario’s Niagara wine country, Sue-Ann was awarded one of the Ontario Wine Industry’s most prestigious awards – the Tony Aspler Cuvée Award of Excellence at the 30th Annual Cuvée Wine Gala.
The province’s swankiest wine soiree, the 30th Annual Cuvée Gala, was held in Niagara Falls on March 23, 2018 celebrating excellence in Ontario winemaking with over 800 attendees. The evening highlights a few high-level awards with Sue-Ann bringing home the prestigious “Tony Aspler Award of Excellence”.
Taking little time to enjoy the success of the award, Sue-Ann declared in her impromptu speech that “While we celebrate all of our accomplishments tonight, and were physically doing what makes us great simply a few hours ago, we are right back to work tomorrow to continue whatever it is that makes us so notable. Regardless if it is in the vineyards pruning, completing a final filtration in the cellar, getting a wine’s sell sheet done in marketing or pushing our research forward, everyone is contributing equally”.
The Tony Aspler Award of Excellence is given annually to a person or institution that has worked to further the Ontario Wine Industry. Former recipients over the 18 years of the award’s inception have included many great contributors including notables as John Ralston Saul (2002), the late Karl Kaiser (2003) and Ian D’Agata (2017).
Tony Aspler, Member of the Order of Canada (CM), has been writing about wine for thirty years and today he is the most widely respected wine writer in Canada. He was the wine columnist for the Toronto Star for twenty-one years and has authored eleven books on wine and food, including The Wine Lover’s Companion, The Wine Lover Cooks, Travels with My Corkscrew and Vintage Canada. He writes for several international wine magazines, including Harper’s, Tidings, and Fine Wine & Liquor. He contributes every weekend to wine reviews on 680NEWS. In 2012 Tony was the first Canadian to be inducted into the New York Media Wine Writers Hall of Fame and awarded the Queen's Jubilee Medal.
Prior Winners of the Tony Aspler Cuvée Award of Excellence
| 2000 | Peter Gamble |
| 2001 | Donald Triggs |
| 2002 | John Ralston Saul |
| 2003 | Karl Kaiser |
| 2004 | Paul Bosc Sr. |
| 2005 | Carlo Negri |
| 2006 | William (Bill) Lenko |
| 2007 | Jim Warren |
| 2008 | Lanny Huff |
| 2009 | Darryl Brooker |
| 2010 | Jon O'Gryzlo |
| 2011 | Bill Redelmeier |
| 2012 | Ron Giesbrecht |
| 2013 | Terrance Van Rooyen |
| 2014 | Moray Tawse |
| 2015 | Laurie Macdonald |
| 2016 | Lloyd Schmidt |
| 2017 | Ian D'Agata |
| 2018 | Sue-Ann Staff |
Congratulations Sue-Ann for this well-deserved recognition!
Check out this report on the event (Sue-Ann appears at the 5 minute mark): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSmNJ6Tmd6g&feature=youtu.be
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