Tours

Wine Tours

We are open for wine tours 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. daily. Feel free to use the form at the bottom of this page to get in touch with us to book your special tour. Charcuterie boards are available to go with wine tastings but need to be ordered 48 hours in advance.

Weddings

Potter Settlement Artisan Wines…the perfect place for your perfect day!

Online Ordering

Our wines are shipped to most locations around the world. Minimum order of 12 mixed bottles.

Come and experience the beauty of our winery

“It’s a magical place!”

Potter Settlement Artisan Winery was recognized by the Ontario Provincial Government through The Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Excellence Awards and The Grape Growers of Ontario for pioneering Canada’s first official experimental plantings of the Marquette, Frontenac, Petite Pearl and Itasca grape varietals.

Nestled at the very base of the granite Canadian Shield where it meets the limestone of the Great Lakes Lowlands, the soil of Potter Settlement and Hastings County’s terroir boasts the highest mineral content in the world at 242.

Our vineyards were initially planted back in 1999 and the winery was established in 2015. Since then, we’ve been winning many, many awards for our small batch, artisan wines.

Come visit us and try them yourself!

While people usually come here for our award winning wines, we often are told how awestruck they are by the beauty and the energy that is here.

Yes, we are ‘a little out of the way’ , about 45 minutes north of highway 401 coming from Belleville, but that is part of what creates the splendour. At night you can see the stars unhindered by city lights. There are no traffic or other artificial noises; only the occasional howl of a coyote and the chirping of birds.

And there is an energy from the earth here that is hard to describe.

It has to be felt. It has to be experienced.

A wine tasting is a great way to sample many of our International award winning wines.

2017 Marquette

Gold Medal

National Wine Awards of Canada
91 Points

Gold Medal

San Francisco International Wine Competition
94 Points

Gold Medal

Bordeaux Gold Medal.
Toronto Star article

Gold Medal

Challenge du vin, Bordeaux, France

Silver Medal

Cold Climate Wine Awards, Minnesota
Margaret SwainNational Post wine critic: “This is the most amazing wine I have tried all year.”
Award WInning Marquette

Our Marquette, multiple international award winning wine.

Our 2017 Marquette won a gold medal in 2021 at the Challenge International Du Vin Wine Competition in Bordeaux, France, topping over 3579 entries from 27 different countries! Potter Settlement was the ONLY Canadian winery to be awarded medals at this fierce competition. Our Pinot Noir and Cabernet Franc also won medals at this competition.

The Challenge International Du Vin Wine Competition is France’s largest and oldest with over 800 judges in attendance.

Portage Christopher Gentile

Introducing our Ruby Portgage

Frozen at -32C. Madernized in imported Porto Barrels in the summer sun. “Fit for the finest dining tables of Queen Victoria”, as the sailors attested. A piece of heaven that no one has tasted in 170 years since it was first created during the McClure Arctic Expedition.

Thank you Christopher Gentile for your photography! You captured the winter light in the ship’s quarters against the Ruby Portage bottle amongst the humble artifacts of the Expedition.

Thank you to the LCBO’s Deidre Reitav for your accurate sommelier description of this very unique fortified wine:

“Ruby Portàge opens with a seamless chinook of fig newton, spiced plum-infused amber and diaphanous cranberry playing to a circular amphitheater of subtle cherry and charming Christmas rum cake.

The taste is opulent, complex, smooth and beautiful. It has a supple sabre of rum and raisin and voluptuous caramelized apricots, lending to a high ghost of black raspberry, visiting satsuma with an aura of smoked bourbon-laced red pear. Spiced, supple red current is surprising but shy… almost a mobile vertebrae from the beginning to end against the auras of dark dried plum and autumn stone fruit.”

Sandor Johnson

Sandor Johnson

Founder/Wine Maker

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