The Glenora Ferry near Lake on the Mountain Resort near Picton.
Photographer: Shane Lavalette for Bloomberg Businessweek
Wine
This Tiny Canadian Peninsula Wants to Be the Next Burgundy
If you love pinot noir, it's time to get to know Prince Edward County.
When Astrid Young set forth from California’s sun-soaked Napa Valley 15 years ago to further a career in wine, she knew she wanted to specialize in pinot noir and chardonnay.
She could have pursued that ambition in the legendary chalk-strewn soils of Burgundy and Champagne, or even in New Zealand’s Marlborough region. Instead, she landed in Canada’s Prince Edward County, then a little-known peninsula in Lake Ontario about 125 miles east of Toronto. “It was this big block of limestone, and I knew it had huge potential,” says Young, now the wine director atMerrill House, a hotel in the region.