Grape growing in Ontario, explained · on the web since 2000

Wineries

Featherstone Estate Winery

Featherstone Estate Winery grows grapes at Vineland, in the Twenty Mile Bench sub-appellation of Niagara Peninsula. It dates its founding to 1999.

Where it sits

Featherstone Estate Winery is at Vineland, and its fruit falls inside Twenty Mile Bench, one of the sub-appellations nested within Niagara Peninsula. A sub-appellation is the narrower claim: a wine may carry it or the wider appellation name, and the boundaries are set in regulation rather than by the winery. The regions page covers how those lines are drawn.

What it grows

The winery works with Chardonnay, Cabernet Franc, Riesling and Sauvignon Blanc.

Each of those has a page here on how it behaves in Ontario: the heat it needs to ripen, the Brix it reaches at harvest, and which parts of the province actually plant it.

Vineyard area: 23 acres.

Visiting

Walk-ins welcome (space permitting)

Also in Niagara Peninsula: Flat Rock Cellars, Frogpond Farm. The full list is on the Ontario wineries page.

What we hold on this winery

LocationVineland
AppellationNiagara Peninsula
Sub-appellationTwenty Mile Bench
Founded1999
Vineyard area23 acres
VarietiesChardonnay, Cabernet Franc, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc

Compiled from the winery's own website (source), checked October 2026. Facts change — corrections are welcome.