Why Fruit Wines?
Fruit wines were the first wines made in Niagara-on the-Lake in the 1700's by British soldiers garrisoned at Fort George in Newark (what is now Niagara-on the-Lake) using apples and other locally grown fruits.
A common misconception of fruit wine is that it is heavy and sweet. Sunnybrook Farm Estate Winery creates light, fresh, and well balanced wines that maintain the essential and individual fruit profiles. Light, and easy drinking, our wines offer a unique and wonderful taste on their own yet are easily paired with many of your favourite foods.
Fruit Wines of Canada - Fruit Wines of Ontario
Fruit Wines of Ontario is an association of wineries whose mission is to promote the sale of wines made from fruit other than grape. Some members produce 100% fruit wines while others also produce grape wines.
The association has developed a set of Quality Certified (QC) standards, which is regulated by the national body, Fruit Wines of Canada. The QC program is modeled on the VQA regulations and functions with the co-operation of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) who taste and test fruit wines on the same basis as VQA grape wines.
The QC designation is the fruit wine equivalent of Vintners Quality Alliance (VQA) for grape wines.
The Canadian Fruit Wine industry is a thriving one. There are over 160 fruit wineries operating in Canada. Every province has wineries that produce fruit wines. High quaility standards are in place, ensuring sensational wines from all producers. Fruit Wines of Ontario.
To Your Health!
Not only a beautiful taste experience, Sunnybrook Farm Estate Wines contribute to a healthier lifestyle. A significant part of a healthy lifestyle involves eating right. It has been long determined fruits, when incorporated into one's diet, provide exceptional health benefits. Scientific research has recently discovered the benefits of phytonutrients and shown these naturally occurring plant compounds function within your body, helping to boost your immune system and fight disease.
Sunnybrook Farm Estate Fruit Wines are an exceptional way of sharing one's healthful lifestyle with friends and family.
Nutritionists have also been celebrating variety of colour in one's diet as being extremely beneficial through being both proactive and reactive in fighting illness, offering many different disease fighting properties. The diversity in Sunnybrook Farm Estate fruit wines establishes a wide spectrum of ways fighting disease and boosting immunity can be incorporated into the joy of everyday.
A recent study at the University of Guelph shows that fruit wines are low in headache-causing histamines. None at all were detected in the Cherry, Apple, and Plum wines, so you may be able to enjoy fruit wines if you are allergic to grape wines (especially oak aged Whites and Reds). Fruit wines are also high in antioxidant capacity and minerals, resveritrol (the antioxidant, anti-cancer and cholesterol lowering compound found in red wine), and catechins (a heart protection compound).
Discover....a new world of wine!
