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Cecil and his brother Gary have been tending our vines for the last couple of years.  Cecil’s out there day after day in all sorts of weather — hoeing weeds, tucking vines, pulling leaves, pounding posts, deploying netting — doing whatever needs to be done to help us grow high quality wine grapes. It’s only with […]

Last year we filled the empty areas in our fields with 2.5 more acres of vines.  Often, people ask for a more full-bodied red, so we added an acre of Cabernet Franc. We expanded our Pinot Gris plantings, and we completed our Chardonnay vineyard. Planting day was in late June 2014, because it was too wet for the

There is nothing like a barbecue in the vineyard — lamb sausage, infused with Broken Stone pinot noir, roasted over charcoal and seared with sarments de vignes. Sarments de vignes means “branches of the vines”.  Cooking over burning grape vines is popular in France. At the French equivalent of Canadian Tire, you can even purchase a

Visitors to the winery will notice a patch of low-growing vines to the left of the parking lot.  Pumpkins! No, we’re not making pumpkin wine, although we’ve thought of the possibilities (a Harry-Potter-esque cinnamon spiced sweet wine). It’s for a fundraiser for our daughter’s hockey team.  One of the Hockey Moms said to me, Tim, why

Recently my youngest daughter said to me “Daddy, I like it better since you left your old job.  I think it makes you a better father.” Due to the vicissitudes of corporate life, I left my city job and my dreams of becoming a full time vintner in the country suddenly became true!   Yes!  Not exactly

We’re hosting our annual bus tour on June 27!  The $100 ticket includes transportation via luxury bus, tastings at six unique wineries, and a barbecue at Broken Stone Winery.  We depart Toronto from York Mills subway at 9 am sharp, returning by 8 pm.  We’re also picking up more wine country fans on the way, in

Wine?  In the Park? Many people are surprised to hear that last year the Ontario Liberals launched a two year pilot program allowing sales of VQA wines at farmers’ markets.   This is a great opportunity for us small Mom- and Pop- owned wineries.   Because of our small scale we normally sell most of

1) Have a dream and the commitment to make it happen 2) Either have a big budget or a long time frame in mind.  It will cost $20,000 per acre just to set up the vineyard, $6,000 per acre each year to maintain (assuming you do most of the work), and it won’t produce any

Many people long for the good old days. Sometimes its hard to see, but I think that we’re living them. The good old days are now! Let’s enjoy ’em.