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Wineries

Quebec wineries

74 Quebec wineries with the town each one sits in and the grapes it grows, compiled from each winery's own website in October 2026.

How Quebec names its wines

Quebec does not divide itself into geographic appellations. CARTV, the provincial body that recognises reserved appellations, lists exactly two for wine: Vin du Québec and Vin de glace du Québec, both protected geographical indications. The Vin du Québec area is a single zone defined by growing degree days rather than by boundaries on a map, and certification is something a producer opts into. Most Quebec wineries do not hold it, which is why the column is blank for most of the list below — that is the real state of affairs, not missing data.

Quebec also grows a different set of grapes from the rest of the country. The winters rule out most vinifera, so the province leans on cold-hardy hybrids — Frontenac in its several colours, Marquette, Petite Perle, Sabrevois, Saint-Pépin, Radisson — alongside Vidal, Seyval Blanc and Maréchal Foch, which Ontario also plants.

IGP-Vin de glace du Québec (1)

IGP-Vin du Québec (10)

Region not recorded (63)

Winter is the constraint

Quebec's limiting factor is not the growing season but what happens after it. Winter minima in much of the province go well below what Vitis vinifera survives unprotected, and growers have historically responded by hilling soil over the graft union or laying canes down and burying them before the cold sets in — labour that no Ontario or British Columbia grower has to budget for. That single fact explains most of what is planted here.

The alternative to burying vines is planting ones that do not need it, and that is the route the province has taken. The cold-hardy hybrids that dominate Quebec vineyards — Frontenac in its white, grey and noir forms, Marquette, Petite Perle, Sabrevois, Saint-Pépin, Radisson, Vandal-Cliche — were bred for exactly this problem. Several came out of the University of Minnesota's breeding programme, which was solving the same winter in a similar latitude. They ripen early, they survive cold that would kill Chardonnay outright, and they taste like themselves rather than like a thin imitation of a warmer region's wine.

Some varieties cross over from Ontario: Vidal and Seyval Blanc on the white side, Maréchal Foch and Marquette among the reds. What Quebec plants very little of is the vinifera that fills vineyards further west.

Where the vineyards are

The concentration is in the south, close to the United States border, where the season is longest. Brome-Missisquoi in the Eastern Townships holds the largest cluster of producers and is where the province's wine route is busiest. Montérégie, around the Richelieu valley and the plain south of Montreal, is the other main area, with smaller groups in Centre-du-Québec, the Laurentians, Lanaudière and near Quebec City.

The IGP zone cuts across those administrative regions rather than following them. Because it is drawn on accumulated growing degree days rather than on municipal boundaries, two neighbouring vineyards can fall on opposite sides of it if the heat accumulation differs — which is a more honest way of defining a wine region than a line on a map, and a harder one to put on a label.

Corrections

If you run one of these wineries and something here is wrong or missing, tell us and we will fix it. We would rather show a blank than a guess. The rest of the country is indexed on the Canadian wineries page.