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Southbrook Vineyards

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Ontario

Family-owned Niagara-on-the-Lake winery making certified organic and biodynamic Ontario VQA wines on its own 150-acre estate, sold direct across Canada and through the LCBO.

Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON CA · www.southbrook.com

97.7

Southbrook Vineyards is the Redelmeier family's winery on a 150-acre estate at 581 Niagara Stone Road in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, operated by Southbrook Farms Limited and in 2008 the first Canadian wine estate certified both organic and biodynamic. It grows its own grapes, makes VQA wine in its own winery, and sells direct online with shipping to most provinces, from its tasting room, and through the LCBO.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The site names Bill Redelmeier as proprietor, the history page traces the business through three generations of the Redelmeier family, and the footer copyright names Southbrook Farms Limited as the operating company; madeinca.ca corroborates that it is owned and operated by the family. Corporations Canada returned zero results for Southbrook, so the entity is most likely an Ontario corporation, and the Ontario Business Registry could not be queried from this session, so this rests on the vendor's own statements rather than a registry filing.

Manufacturing

100.0 reported

CA 100%

All wine is fermented, barrel aged, and bottled at the vendor's own winery on the Niagara-on-the-Lake estate, which reuses a retrofitted agricultural building beside the hospitality pavilion, and the wines are Ontario VQA. The vendor states this and the organic certification covers both the vineyard and the winery; no third-party regulator page was fetched.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The winery, vineyard, tasting room, and office are all on the single site at 581 Niagara Stone Road, Niagara-on-the-Lake, and the contact page recruits seasonal tasting room staff to that location. The proprietor and winemaker are both based there.

Inputs

84.5 inferred

CA 80% · EU 10% · other 5% · US 5%

The main input, grapes, comes from the vendor's own certified organic vineyard of about 60 acres on the estate, and VQA rules keep any purchased fruit within Ontario. The vendor does not say where its oak barrels, glass bottles, closures, or labels come from; the split for those packaging and cooperage inputs across the EU, the US, and elsewhere is an estimate.

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