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Wine
Tours
Exploring Canada's wine regions with an outdoor twist
©
Outdoor Adventure Canada 2003
Canada has some great regions for wine making including Niagara-on-the-Lake
in Ontario and the Okanagan Valley in British Colombia. These
scenic and lush areas make for a great weekend of touring vineyards
and tasting wines.*
Niagara-on-the-Lake
One way to enjoy Niagara-on-the-Lake is by taking a bicycle tour
of the wineries. You could plan your own route or take one of
the guided trips with a tour company. Most of the tour companies
run from April or May through October. Some companies include
a picnic lunch. If you are planning your own route, you will find
many beautiful places to stop for lunch. Be sure to pick up some
of the local fruit for an afternoon snack.
Some of the
wineries in the Niagara-on-the-Lake include Inniskillin, Peller
Estates, Jackson-Triggs and Henry of Pelham.
You will find
more information at the Niagara-on-the-Lake
website.
Okanagan
Valley
The Okanagan
Valley has wine festivals throughout the spring, summer and fall.
You will travel past bountiful orchards and vineyards.
Like Niagara-on-the-Lake,
you can hire a tour guide or create your own. Not only can you
tour the wineries by cycling but you can also travel by canoe
or by horseback. Kelowna is a good starting point and you may
want to visit the Wine Museum there.
Some of the
wineries include Mission Hill Family Estate and Summerhill Estate.
More information
is available from Tourism
Kelowna and from the Okanagan
Wine Festivals website.
*Please keep
in mind that you should not drink and drive, cycle, canoe, or
ride a horse. Proper wine tasting is simply that - tasting - you
refrain from swallowing.
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