Stratus Wine

We had a wonderful weekend! We went to Niagara for the weekend to visit my parents and do an early anniversary hello to Stratus - the winery we had our wedding reception at! It was great to do a tasting of their new releases - 2007 Reisling, and the 2006 Red and White. Oh and we did the white and red icewines as well....

If you have never been to Stratus in Niagara-on-the-lake it's worth the trip up there. I may be a bit bias but the building is beautifully designed and it is LEED certified. We had our dinner in the tasting room overlooking the vineyards by Tony deLuca - also worth a trip to Niagara if you've never had his food before!

On our way home we also stopped at Southbrook winery because someone had told Chris that they do wood oven pizzas and he was determined to have that for lunch. Southbrook is also LEED certified, not as stunning as Stratus, but their big purple wall does make you stop and look. Their pizza dough is made from the grapeskins adding valuable antioxidants, iron, and fiber so it has a slight purple tinge to it. The pizza guy told us that Anna Olson makes the pizza dough.... it was funny because we visited her new food store/cafe at Ravine Vineyards earlier in the morning.

Thanks to Hayley for our trip to Stratus today!