Wine and Art Tour - Ravine Vineyard Estate

Ravine



The entrance just off the main road entering the vineyard
 


 


 


 

General Description

Ravine Vineyard Estate Winery is five generations in the making, maintaining a functioning hundred plus year old farm. Ravine is located on a thirty-four-acre lot, filled with a beautiful rolling vineyard. This vineyard has a focus for small batch wines and also delicious food to be paired alongside, allowing to experience the full depth of the wines created. This historic venue is located in the heart of St David's Ontario owned by Norma Jane (Lowrey) Harber and Blair Harber. Ravine has a rustic on-site restraint featuring an ever-changing menu utilizing local and fresh ingredients, reserve them into the winter months to have locally grown foods year round. This quaint winery also has rooms available for private events having four unique and yet elegant venues to host your private events. The beautiful location along with a tasty flight of wines makes this a location you must stop in and visit.


Recreational Features

This winery Includes a full menued restaurant filling your stomaches full of local products lead by Executive Head Chef Ross Midgley. Ravine also features a honey collaboration with another local establishment B-Y's Honey in Niagara On the Lake. This stunning Winery also features a stunning outdoor wood oven pizza oven on their outdoor patio, this patio overlooks the stunning St.Davids landscape. They recently have relaunched the Lowrey family's 121-year-old canning label selling them at their on-site grocery store including an abundance of cheese's, jam's, pickle's, sauces and canned whole fruit's. This is all tied together by locating itself in the heart of the vineyard overlooking a beautiful landscape and stunning patios.



Historical Attributes

The Woodruff house which is now the main tasting venue at Ravine was built in 1802 on the St.Davids namesake. In 1814 the house was burned to the ground by American Soldiers and was eventually re-built incorporating the original chimney and fireplace. In 1867 this farm was purchased by David Jackson Lowrey, where it didn't take long for him to take advantage of this rich soil where the Niagara River used to run through by planting 500 vines and became one of the first commercial vineyards in the area. In 1969 the Woodruff house was disassembled and moved to Caledon, but later moved back to St.Davids in 2003. In July of 2009 after 40 years was re-opened to the public and continues to run to this date.



Ecological Attributes

Ravines Vineyard is located in a unique location in Niagara on the Lake breaking the vineyard into 3 sections. This includes the upper bench, the slope, and the bottom. Each of these includes different soil compositions allowing different vines to pair to the soil. On the upper bench, this was located in the shallower flowing part of the river which holds a high clay content which they paired with the Merlot. The slope after 5500 years or erosion which holds a thin mineral conductive soil which allowed Ravine to grow a Burgundy-Style Chardonnay. Lastly, the bottom which holds rich mineral, humus and organic material where Chardonnay Musque was planted to take advantage of the extra vigor producing a fresh vibrant flavor.

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Address

1366 York Rd
St.Davids Niagara on the Lake, ON
Canada L0S 1P0

Contact Information

Phone: (905) 262-8463
Email: info@ravinevineyard.com
Website: https://ravinevineyard.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RavineVineyard
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RavineVineyardEstateWinery

Hours of Operation

Sunday from : 11:00pm   to : 6:00pm
Monday from : 11:00pm   to : 6:00pm
Tuesday from : 11:00pm   to : 6:00pm
Wednesday from : 11:00pm   to : 6:00pm
Thursday from : 11:00pm   to : 6:00pm
Friday from : 11:00pm   to : 8:00pm
Saturday from : 11:00pm   to  : 8:00pm


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