#sizzlinwithSAS: Bacon Salad! BACON Salad! - Sue-Ann Staff Estate Winery
April 17, 2021


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

 

March 2026

 

Winter Wine Trail 

$120 + HST pp

Saturday, March 7 or Sunday, March 8 

Escape the chill this season with the warm hospitality of the Benchlands Winter Wine Trail.

Visit five exceptional wineries to enjoy five different expertly crafted cheese and wine pairings. To keep the magic going long after the fifth stop, you will be taking home five bottles of specially selected wine—one from each winery—to relive the Wine Trail in the cozy comfort of your home. It’s the ultimate winter indulgence: rich flavours, cozy moments, and unforgettable sips.

With your ticket, you’ll enjoy:

  •  Tastings at FIVE renowned wineries
  •  Locally sourced bites paired with each wine
  •  FIVE bottles of wine to take home (one from each winery) 

$120 + hst per person. Purchase your tickets online, choosing either Saturday, March 7 OR Sunday, March 8. You can also choose the winery where you'd like to start your day! 

https://winetrail.trilogen.ca/

 

 



#sizzlinwithSAS: Bacon Salad! BACON Salad!

Sue-Ann puts the sizzle back in #sizzlinwithSAS today with a recipe for Bacon Salad!
Yeah, you read that right! BACON SALAD!

Bacon Salad Appetizer

 Ingredients:

  • 1 head of endive or radicchio (other bitter leaves of choice that make a good serving vessel!)
  • 1 teaspoon olive oil
  • 1 clove garlic, clove crushed (not chopped)
  • 8 ounces bacon, cut into ½’ pieces
  • 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
  • 5 teaspoons cider vinegar
  • Dash Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 medium apple, cut into matchstick pieces sliced on a mandolin
  • Couple of cracks of black pepper
  • salted or BBQ peanuts (chopped) or Hickory Sticks to garnish

 

Directions:
Break apart endive into individual full leaves.  Crisp them in clean, cold salted water bath for ~20 minutes.

 

Over medium flame, heat olive oil in a frying pan (ideally with tall sides just to minimize the mess).  Once warm, add garlic clove and allow to poach in olive oil for ~5 min.  Remove clove.  Continue medium heat and fry bacon until crisp, about 5 minutes (you may have to work in batches). Transfer bacon with a slotted to a bowl.

 

Add the Dijon mustard to the bacon juices in the pan and whisk to combine.  Add vinegar, Worcestershire sauce and black pepper.  Whisk again.  Tossing in bacon and apple.

 

To serve:

Using tongs, fill the endive leaves with bacon mixture.  Top with peanuts or hickory sticks.
Serve immediately.

 

Additional notes:
When we made this for Get Fresh In The Valley in ~2014(?), we used 3 different kinds of bacon: -applewood smoked bacon; Cherry Pink bacon from Bartlett Road, Beamsville; and a custom / private order of Berkshire bacon from pigs raised at our good friends Dave and Louise at Featherstone Estate Winery.

Paired with 2019 Bank Barn Baco Noir and 2018 Swing Barn Baco Noir Reserve on #sizzlinwithSAS April 17, 2021

 


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