6 Top Quality Sparkling Wines from Canada

6 Top Quality Sparkling Wines from Canada

Handsome Brut Handsome Brut, a new sparkling wine brand hailing from Ontario, Canada, is on a mission to prove that bubbles are the perfect tipple—for any occasion. Despite it’s friendly demeanour, quality and heritage are at the heart of Handsome Brut. Produced with 100% Ontario Chardonnay grapes in the méthode traditionelle, this VQA-approved wine is…

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Handsome Brut, Canadian Sparkling Wine

Handsome Brut

Sparkling personality. Dry wit. At home in pinstripes, equally dapper in denim.  Chilled out and charmingly tasteful. Grab a glass, pop the cork and treat yourself.  You can take this Handsome Brut anywhere. “My only regret in life is that I didn’t drink enough Champagne,” said British economist John Maynard Keynes. A wise declaration, and…

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Summerhill Pyramid – Cipes Gabriel

Summerhill Pyramid - Cipes Gabriel

Cipes Gabriel  Made with 100% Chardonnay grown in Summerhill’s own vineyard in Kelowna, this wine sits en tirage for seven years. Cipes Gabriel is pure and clean with aromas of vanilla and lemongrass, flavours of pineapple, apricot, and biscuit, and a beautiful fine mousse finish. Extended en tirage aging produced a wine with creamy bubbles…

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Summerhill Pyramid – Cipes Ice

Summerhill Pyramid - Cipes Ice

Cipes Ice Cipes Ice is an organic Pinot Noir cuvee, finished with an organic Pinot Noir Ice wine dosage. The Icewine lifts the red fruit flavours of the Pinot Noir. This wine has spent four years en triage. Demi-Sec Notes of strawberry, raspberry and blood orange with a creamy mousse and a crisp, clean honeyed…

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Summerhill Pyramid – Cipes Rose

Summerhill Pyramid - Cipes Rose

Cipes Rosé  100% Pinot Noir cuvee grown at multiple vineyard locations around the Okanagan Valley that were planted and are maintained specifically for sparkling wine production to express a crisp, bright Style. 100% organic grapes. Notes of raspberry, strawberry, kiwi, blood orange, vanilla, almond, and white toast. Food pairing: Charcuterie, salmon, grilled chicken, duck, pork,…

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Summerhill Pyramid – Cipes Ariel 1998

Cipes Ariel 1998 A blend of 59% Pinot Noir, 40% Chardonnay, and 1% Pinot Meunier. Very rich and complex with notes of custard, vegemite, brioche, orange and lemon zest, ripe apple, dried apricot, nut, and ginger. The extended bottle aging has created deep autolytic notes and creamy bubbles. Rivals the best from France. Estate grown…

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Summerhill Pyramid – Cipes Brut

Summerhill Pyramid - Cipes Brut

Summerhill Pyramid Winery, located in the Lakeshore district in Kelowna, BC, is Canada’s largest biodynamic and organic winery, producing more organic wine than the rest of the Canadian wine industry combined. In addition, Summerhill is Canada’s most visited winery and foremost producer of sparkling wine. Winemaker Eric von Krosigk oversees the portfolio of BC VQA…

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Summerhill Pyramid Winery

Summerhill Pyramid Winery

Summerhill Pyramid Winery is Canada’s leading sparkling wine producer. Since 1990, it has been the focus of Summerhill Pyramid Winery to produce Okanagan regionally styled traditional method sparkling wine. This focus has earned accolades at home and abroad, winning gold medals every year for the winery’s flagship Cipes Brut, and a gold medal and trophy…

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Noble Ridge Vineyard and Winery

Noble Ridge Vineyard and Winery

Noble Ridge Vineyard & Winery lays in the Okanagan Valley at the northern most tip of the only desert in Canada. The winery is named for the noble varieties of grapes grown and the ridge that divides the land on which they thrive. But this noble name is more than just a nod to the…

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