Niagara-on-the-lake is known as possibily the prettiest towns in Canada and I can definitely see why. The scenery on the way driving there is breathtaking, lots of trees, beautiful hertiage Victorian houses, wineries, grand mansion…so different from the dried-up palm tree beachy west coast! It’s definitely an escape from the mainstream commercial tourisy Niagara Fall area (which is about 20 min away). It’s also a historic landmark where the famous bloody battle in which the Canadian + British fends off the American invaders (so this area has lots of British flags and buisnesses ^^;;).
The weather there is ideal for grape growing so there are lots of Vineyard and famous wineries. We did end up spending an afternoon hopping different wineries for wine tasting and bought lots of ice wines, they taste so heavenly~~ In fact this area is considered the most respected producer of Ice wine in the world, so I heard. I also visit one ice wine winery when I went to Rocky Mountain, but Niagara-on-the-Lake are way more beautiful and elaborate. You drove in the country road along the side of lake, and there’s signs pointing to you make a turn into various wineries. The above pictures are from Inniskillin Winery, the largest and most commercial operation. There’re buses of Japanese tourists here. We came here after told by other wineries that this is the only place that has Cherry Icewine (just as heavenly~ more grape flavor than regular kind~). A glass of wine tasting is usually $8. We also went to many smaller wineries, we bought boxes of wines here and there, one particularly made their own ice wine chocolates that I bought a few for coworker gifts. 😀
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