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Oak barrel in Bachelder Niagara's "Bat Cave" on March 7, 2026. (HAPPY HOUR/Jake MacAndrew) Thomas Bachelder has made wine all over the world. After studying winemaking in Beaune, vinifying the Lemelson Vineyards in Oregon, as well as brief work in Chile, he planted his roots in the Niagara Peninsula. You might think you know Niagara wines. But at the LCBO, the selection from this region has long been dominated by the well-known names and handsomely lined pocketbooks of intern

Charles Baker's rieslings are a hidden gem of the GTA wine scene.  Baker is a leader in the new generation of Niagara wine appellation believers that arrived at the turn of the millennium—defining grape expression in the Niagara Peninsula, row by row. He works in marketing at Stratus Vineyards but his true passion is riesling. His own private label specializes in high-quality, single-vineyard rieslings produced in collaboration with Stratus winemaker J.L. Groux. Baker, like T

Leaning Post was started in 2011 by husband and wife Ilya & Nadia Senchuk on 11 acres of land. What was then an abandoned winery has been rejuvenated into an award-winning winery in the Peninsula VQA. Their flagship chardonnay and a variety of small parcel pinot noirs are widely available across the province. A new shipment of the Winona for the 2022 cuvee variation, with what appears to be half the stock of the 600 cases produced, was purchased for LCBO retail stores. A perf

Thomas Bachelder has made wine all over the world. After studying at winemaking school in Beaune, vinifying the Lemelson Vineyards in Oregon, as well as brief work in Chile, he planted his roots in the Niagara Peninsula. Thomas and his wife, Mary, started their own operation in 2009. This gave them the free reign to map out the terroirs of the region, block by block, row by row. They started with cool-climate chardonnay before moving to his true love of pinot noir in the 2011