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Hillebrand
Winery - Niagara Wineries
Things
to do on the Hillebrand Estates Winery Tour
Hillebrand Restaurant Review
Hillebrand winery was established in 1979 and is one of the two oldest and the most established wineries in Niagara region. Hillebrand is the large property that kept its original design and after spending over 3 million dollars in renovation it offers extensive facilities with several buildings designed for wine making, wine shop, barrel cellar and winery restaurant.
Hillebrand winery became popular with the early brands as Schloss Hillebrand and the initial Rieslings. Thanks to the international investment, winery started growing very quickly. From 1991 after Inniskillin pioneered Icewine making, received international awards and became recognized for the wine quality, Hillebrand Estates joined the production of award-winning Icewines from Niagara.
Today the winery has over 300 awards, produces over 25000 cases of Riesling in several styles and many other excellent varietals from small batches of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Cabernet to Ice wine.
Hillebrand winery is owned by the family of Andres Wines, second-largest wine company in Canada, who is also the owner of well known Peller Estates winery.
Hillebrand Winery Restaurant
Hillebrand Estates winery restaurant opened in 1996 and was the first winery restaurant in Niagara on the Lake. Hillebrand winery restaurant is great spot for casual lunch, high-class and romantic dining experience. The dining room is light and open with the floor-to-ceiling windows providing a nice view over the vineyards and Niagara Escarpment.
Seasonally inspired cuisine is created with the finest local ingredients and every course of the restaurant tasting menu is either made or perfectly matched with Icewine or paired with the finest Hillebrand wines.
Hillebrand offers a perfect dining package, featuring the performance of your choice at The Shaw Theatre and 3-course seasonally inspired menu with finest local ingredients.
You can also attend several pre-arranged dining events:
- Fall Fabulicious - November 19 to 23
- Trius Red Barrel Cellar Dinner - December 12
- New Year’s Eve at Hillebrand Winery Restaurant
- New Year’s Eve Chef's Table Dinner
- Icewinemaker's Lunch - Every Saturday in January
- Icewinemaker's Dinner - January 23
Hillebrand Winery Tours
Winery
tours at Hillebrand are available every day from 10am to 6pm on the
hour. For $5 you will have a half-hour introductory tours with cellar
and vineyard tour with the three complimentary tastings of Hillebrand
popular wines.The tours are great opportunity where you can learn a lot about local wines, winemaking process and also how to identify regional taste and aroma essences.
The investment that took place several years ago helped the winery with the improved look and to increase the outdoor tasting spots. At the same time two-story stone structure called Winemaker Lookout that overlooks vineyards became one of the must to see attractions in wine region.
Tasting bar is the place where you can sample of three preselected wines, for a small charge of $5, or select your own wine. Table wines prices are in a range from 10 to 80 bucks.
Hillebrand Estates winery is open year round for visits and every season there are some happenings. The winery plays host to a variety of special events, including weekend concerts and bicycle tours.
The most popular events, where the Hillebrand winery is the host are two Niagara annual music events; jazz festival in July and blue festival in August.
Even if you don't find any happenings during your visit, there are so many other things to do inside the winery or vineyards.
An elegant tasting room, The Collector's Boutique, is where you can buy Hillebrand's best wines. The Collector's Boutiques features older wines that are available only at the winery.
Icewine tour, during January, is offered daily where you can hear about the process of ice wine making, from picking the grapes, pressing the frozen grapes to the art of winemaking, and end with Ice wine tasting.
There are also hands-on seminars, or Trius Art of Red blending tour, where you are actually making your own wine, your own version of Trius Red, by blending two red wines, Merlot and Cabernet. This tour focuses on the detail winemaking and barrel aging process, Icewine and sparkling wine tours.
You will also have an opportunity to visit Trius Sparkling Wine Cellar, the largest of its kind in Canada with over a quarter of a million bottles of Trius Brut, made in the traditional method. Trius is the Niagara’s benchmark wine, made of selection of the best Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot grapes.
If tired from the touring, we recommend taking a break for an hour or two at the Wine Lounge, while sipping your favorite wine and sampling artisanal cheeses.
Visiting Hillebrand Winery
Hilebrand Winery is located in the centre of Niagara on the Lake region, just outside Virgil and nestled between the Niagara escarpment and Lake Ontario, as it can be seen on the Google map below.
Address and directions to Hillebrand Winery Niagara:
1249 Niagara Stone Rd, Niagara on the Lake, Ontario, Canada
Picture
is courtesy of Hillebrand Winery
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