Heritage Estate Winery & Cidery is situated in the heart of Simcoe County. The project started in 2014 to date 17,300 grape vines have been planted, and 1250 fruit trees (1000 apple and 250 pear) have taken root. They have a 40 acre vineyard. Peter and Jocelyn McArthur were the founders of the cidery and winery.
ZB Hospitality Group Inc., Toronto’s leader in social and corporate events and catering management with over 80 years in the hospitality industry, operates Heritage Estate Winery & Cidery. Heritage Estate offers beverages uniquely crafted out of 100% Ontario apples, free from additives or preservatives with less than half the sugar content of most commercial ciders. The sprawling estate includes a century farmhouse, tasting room, contemporary wedding venue and state-of-the-art on-site processing facility.
They produce Apple wine, Blueberry-Apple Sangria Sparkling Strawberry Vidal and other wines besides their ciders.
They are among the few to produce a Marquette wine..Marquette is an inter-species hybrid red wine grape variety. It was developed at the University of Minnesota as part of its grape breeding program (which seeks to develop high quality, cold hardy, and disease resistant wine and table grape cultivars, and is a cross between two other hybrids, MN 1094 and Ravat 262. Marquette was introduced in 2006 and has good resistance to downy mildew, powdery mildew, and black rot, as well as being cold hardy
