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, 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!
We recently hosted a Holiday Taste and Tour event here where guests sipped and savoured their way through my home while enjoying delectable food and wine combinations at 6 different stations. It was a hit … even though the power went out! But, with a trusty team, a clever fiancé, patient customers, and a dog that luckily went to the pet resort for the weekend, all was fine!
One of the favourite stations was the Coq au Vin paired with Sue-Ann Staff Estate Winery’s 2018 The Louie Pinot Gris vinified in an Alsatian style - rich, smoky, spicy, round, and sensational.
While I was making the sauce for the Coq au Vin, I was scared that I was adding too much wine … then I giggled because:
So … of course it has a lot of wine in it!
But, in true “Sue-Ann Style”, I didn’t completely follow any recipe. Here is roughly what I did…
Ingredients:
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350˚F.
Spray cookie sheets with a non-stick cooking spray. Lay out chicken breasts. (you can use any cut of chicken with or without the bones – I wanted this version to be lean and easy to eat hence used breasts only). Rub 1 tablespoon of olive oil with salt and pepper on breasts (I also add some dried herbs like a light shake of Herbs de Provence or dried oregano for more dimension). Very lightly cover with aluminum foil. Cook for 1 hour or until the internal temperature of the meat is 150˚F. Take out of the oven and allow to cool completely. Once cool, fork the meat apart into strips in bite size pieces.
In the same oven, cook mushrooms for 20 – 30 minutes. Reserve until the end.
In a Dutch oven or a heavy bottomed large pot over medium high heat, heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil. In batches, cook the bacon until it is brown, remove and drain on a paper towel, then set aside. Remove all bacon fat from the pot.
In the same pot, heat the last tablespoon of olive oil. When hot, add in onions and carrots. Cook until they are soft (about 10 – 12 minutes) stirring occasionally. Add in garlic and cook for one minute. Add in sherry, cooked bacon, chicken, and any juices that collected from the chicken. Add the wine, stock, and thyme stocks. Bring to a simmer. Cover with a tight-fitting lid and allow to slowly simmer for 30 – 40 minutes. Add in mushrooms to heat through (5 minutes).
Serve over mashed potatoes (my favourite way!), egg noodles or on its own in a bowl
Garnish with fresh thyme or other fine herbs.
Even better with roasted pearl onions on top!
Sensational when served with Sue-Ann Staff’s Pinot Gris!
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