As recently as the 1970s, the term “fine Ontario wine” was an oxymoron, and a bottle of Ontario wine at a wine-tasting produced skeptically raised eyebrows.<\/P>
The Ontario wine industry in the Niagara region began to experiment as early as the 1920s with French varietals and hybrids — only to have its efforts frustrated by Prohibition, government restrictions, the Depression,and a World War.<\/P>
And yet today the wines of Ontario are among some of the finest in the world. What did it take to change the practices of a century and transform an archaic industry into a modern one in just thirty years? Who were the leaders of this revolution? What were the challenges? And what might the future hold for this vibrant community?<\/P>
In Niagara’s Vine Visionaries<\/I>, Linda Bramble tells the dramatic story of people who carried out this transformation of the Niagara industry. Here are the pioneers, the visionaries, the scientists, the entrepreneurs, and the all-round “characters” who pushed, cajoled, and dragged Niagara into its proud place in the world of international wine-making.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3445,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[587,1035,885],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-3443","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-biography-autobiography-business","product_cat-business-economics-general","product_cat-cooking-beverages-alcoholic-general","pa_contributor-linda-bramble","pa_subjects-canadian-biography","pa_subjects-local-interest","pa_subjects-local-interest-ontario","pa_subjects-local-interest-ontario-niagara","desktop-align-left","tablet-align-left","mobile-align-left","ast-product-gallery-layout-horizontal","ast-product-gallery-with-no-image","ast-magnify-disabled","first","instock","shipping-taxable","product-type-external"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorimer.ca\/adults\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorimer.ca\/adults\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorimer.ca\/adults\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorimer.ca\/adults\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorimer.ca\/adults\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorimer.ca\/adults\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=3443"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorimer.ca\/adults\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3443"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorimer.ca\/adults\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}