05/15/2026
Ontario Wine 🍷
We are a Canadian restaurant whose focus is on expressing the terroir of Southern Ontario. This means not only sourcing our proteins and produce exclusively from Canada, but the wine too. Unfortunately this is still a hard thing for some guests to wrap their heads around.
For us it’s simple, we want to work with farmers, and what are wine growers, but essentially grape farmers. We live 90 minutes from the largest wine growing region in all of Canada, it would be crazy not to serve wines from there. Our mission statement for 2026 when it comes to our wine program is “Loud & Proud”! We are starting to pour all our wines at the table and make a focused effort to show the bottles, to tell the stories of the wineries, the growers, the wine makers and what makes them special.
The assumption that we would be so overly meticulous when it comes to sourcing our food and then just slap together a wine list is almost offensive. This isn’t an LCBO shelf wine list, this is curated collection of wines from places that share a similar ethos to the restaurant.
We like to pose this question, would you travel to Italy and ask for California wine? If you were in Spain would you ask for German Riesling? There’s nothing wrong with those wines, in fact a lot of them are spectacular, but that’s just not what we are about.
We grow cool climate wines here. If you like California Cab that’s great. We grow some Cab here too but if you go into expecting the same thing, you will be disappointed. It will be a different wine but that doesn’t make it inferior. We try to celebrate it for what it is, instead of complaining about what it isn’t.
Canadian wine has come a long way and we are excited to share that with our guests. There are amazing winemakers right here in Ontario if you know where to look. Tell us what you like to drink at home and let our staff guide you into something we think you will like. And if you’re still not satisfied, we have corkage and you can drink whatever you like.
In the picture is a list of the wineries we currently work with and we couldn’t be more proud to be able to share their hard work with all of our guests.