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There’s something so civilized about buying wine at your local farmers’ market. Here, six Ontario bottles to accompany your Thanksgiving feast
Getting your hands on special Niagara and Prince Edward County wines is easy. That’s because of a pilot project, which launched last spring, that treats farmers’ market stalls like extensions of winery tasting rooms. The numbers are impressive: from May 2014 to March 2015, Torontonians bought $1.5 million worth of wine at their local market stalls. And that number is set to spike this year, as more than 80 Ontario wineries rotate through 55 markets in the GTA (there’s a schedule and an interactive map of which wineries are appearing where online). The winery reps offer samples, recommend a bottle or two—perhaps to go with that Ridley Bronze heritage breed turkey from one stall over—and can take orders for cases to be shipped or picked up the following week. It’s a treat to buy a good bottle at your local park for that evening’s meal. Here are my top picks for GTA markets and wines worth exploring.
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