Rosewood Estates Winery

Rosewood makes wine and honey mead on the same Beamsville Bench property, and treats both with a light hand. Wild ferments, whole clusters, nothing fined or filtered out if the wine does not need it. The reds include Cabernet Franc and Gamay. The whites include Chardonnay and an off-dry Riesling, with a skin-contact white and a Charmat-method sparkling rounding out the range. Mead comes straight from the family's own hives. Every order ships direct from the winery, and every other Ontario winery on the marketplace is worth a browse too.
Rosewood Estates Winery-My Wine Canada
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4352 Mountainview Road, Lincoln, ON
905-563-4383 taste@rosewoodwine.com
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What's actually in the Rosewood range

Cabernet Franc shows up twice among the reds. Old-vine fruit from the home Renaceau vineyard goes into a single-varietal red on its own. Estate fruit also anchors a Bordeaux-style blend with Petit Verdot and Cabernet Sauvignon. Gamay gets a whole-cluster wild ferment and a full month on the skins before ageing in French oak. On the white side, Chardonnay and an off-dry Riesling sit next to something rarer: a skin-contact white aged in terracotta, with a saline edge. There's a Charmat-method sparkling too, made the same way as prosecco.

Why Rosewood's wines taste a little different

Winemaker Ryan Corrigan leans on wild yeast and whole-cluster fermentation, then bottles most of the lineup without fining or filtering. That's a slower way to make wine, and it shows up in the glass as more texture and a bit of funk. Some drinkers love it right away. Others warm up to it by the second glass. Rosewood sits inside the wider Niagara Peninsula wine region, one of many estates on the Bench worth exploring bottle by bottle.

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The story behind Rosewood Estates

Rosewood is a winery, a meadery, and an apiary all at once, and the bees came first. The Roman family has kept bees since 1932, and a long-held dream of making honey wine finally came together when they planted on the Beamsville Bench in 2000.

The winery opened in 2008. Honey and wine have shared the estate ever since, which is still a rare thing to find in Niagara.

Wine and honey off the Bench

Winemaker Ryan Corrigan joined in 2016 and works in a low-intervention style. The wines to know are the off-dry Sussreserve Riesling and the single-vineyard Semillon, with Pinot Noir and Merlot on the red side.

Then there is the mead. Rosewood keeps around 300 hives across the region, and that honey becomes mead alongside the wine. It was the first grape and honey winery in Ontario certified by Sustainable Winemaking Ontario.

Frequently asked questions

What is Rosewood Estates known for?

Rosewood is known for being a winery and a meadery in one. It makes Beamsville Bench wines like Sussreserve Riesling and Semillon, plus mead and honey from its own bees. The family beekeeping goes back to 1932.

Does Rosewood really make mead?

Yes. Rosewood keeps roughly 300 beehives across Niagara and makes mead, which is wine made from honey, right alongside its grape wines. It was Ontario's first grape and honey winery certified for sustainable practices.

Where is Rosewood Estates?

On the Beamsville Bench, a well-regarded stretch of the Niagara Escarpment near Beamsville, Ontario. The Bench is prized for aromatic whites and cool-climate reds.