Canadas Best Wines 2021: Sparkling
The 2021 WineAlign National Wine Awards of Canada
Judging the sparkling wine flights is always a highlight of the awards because the quality of Canadian fizz is so high and keeps getting better. While Canada has been making sparkling wine in earnest since the late 1980s, we have really come into our own over the past two decades. Many areas of Canada’s wine-growing regions have the ideal growing conditions to produce sparkling wines with that perfect combination of acidity and richness, and, as a result, we make it from coast to coast and from many grape varieties. Our winemakers excel at making all styles of bubbly, from traditional method and charmat, along with increasing amounts of pétillant naturel, or méthode ancestrale; and frizzante. —JANET DOROZYNSKI
1. HARPER’S TRAIL 2018 CHARDONNAY SPARKLING
Thadd Springs Vineyard, Thompson, B.C.
Platinum
$25
2. MALIVOIRE N/V BISOUS ROSÉ
Beamsville Bench, Niagara Peninsula, Ont.
Platinum
$30
3. TRIUS N/V BRUT ROSÉ
Niagara Peninsula, Ont.
Platinum
$30
4. QUEENSTON MILE 2017 BLANC DE NOIRS
St. David’s Bench, Niagara Peninsula Ont.
Platinum
$50
5. HENRY OF PELHAM 2016 CUVÉE CATHARINE CARTE BLANCHE ESTATE BLANC DE BLANC
Niagara Peninsula, Ont.
Platinum
$50
6. 13TH STREET 2015 PREMIER CUVÉE
Niagara Peninsula, Ont.
Platinum
$40
7. L’ACADIE 2018 VINTAGE CUVÉE TRADITIONAL METHOD ORGANIC
Nova Scotia
Gold
$35
8. NOBLE RIDGE 2017 THE PINK ONE
Okanagan Falls, Okanagan Valley, B.C.
Gold
$46
9. ROCKWAY VINEYARDS N/V BRUT CUVÉE
Ont.
Gold
$29
10. CAVE SPRING N/V BLANC DE BLANCS
Beamsville Bench, Niagara Peninsula, Ont.
Gold
$30
