Apex Mountain General Interest

The best wines in the world seem to come from temperate, warm places like France, Italy, New Zealand, Australia, South America and California. It sometimes comes as a surprise to people, then, that Canada—often associated with cold, harsh weather patterns—has a booming wine industry that has been producing world-class vintages for decades. Canadian wine has garnered the country international recognition as a producer of fine, award-winning vino.

Think Canadian winters, and a few of the images that come to mind are icicles, toques and hockey sticks. And while many Canucks delight in the sight of a fresh covering of snow, conjuring visions of powdery white ski hills, few are enthusiastic about the frigid temperatures accompanying the white stuff. Unbearable winters may be as much of a Canadian trademark as the beaver itself, but not everyone in the country is feeling the sharp tines of Old Man Winter quite so severely.