Harvest: No Break at Halftime

       Entering the back half of harvest, our farm and production people have no time to stop and admire their work.  Much has been done; grapes for the next sparkling wines and pinot noir rosés h...

Earthlings Report September 2023

We Asked, You Responded Over the last four months, we have asked you, our customers, what is most important to you regarding environmentally sustainable practices. As a Sustainable Winemaking O...

2023 on the Vine; a Year of Give and Take

      On the Malivoire acreage the current growing year has been a bit of a bumper-car ride.  The year has been characterized by unanticipated obstacles and changes in course, while remaining with...

Malivoire Wine Announces New Executive and Winemaking Team Leaders

    Malivoire Wine Announces New Executive and Winemaking Team Leaders   Martin Malivoire, Founder and President of Malivoire Wines, is proud to announce two new appointments to the leadership of ...

Honouring our Heritage

Honouring our Heritage - Ontario's Cinderella Varieties        It is time hybrid winegrape varieties were given their due.  Working in the shadows of their glamourous vinifera cousins, these variet...

2023 National Wine Awards

The Results are in for the 2023 National Wine Awards... Thank you to WineAlign and all the hard-working volunteers who coordinated this year's National Wine Awards. With 255 Canadian winerie...

Wine and Wood: How We Do It

      It seems no part of this winery elicits more curiosity than our barrel cellar.  With all the different shapes, sizes and groupings of the vessels inside, it’s the motherland of visitor F-A-Qs...

A Promising Start to the Season of 2023

    The signs are still invisible to the casual observer, but to Steve Kornic, whose hands and eyes are daily on our vines, they’re unmistakable.  The swelling of stubby buds and the sap trickling...

Our Earth Day is Every Day!

Sustainability ranks huge in the Malivoire how-to manual.  More than a policy, it’s a pillar of our “Three P” (Planet, People, Prosperity) principles, on which this winery was founded.   Sustainab...

Our Winemaker's Eye on the Sky

Among the most Frequent of our F-A-Qs these days is what this winter's climate means to the farm.  For sure, our vines have been witness to all types of weather, from frigid and blustery to breezy ...

Direct from our Proprietor's Festive Quill

  As COVID first reared its head, I, like most people I know, retreated out of harm’s way. This meant self-isolating and minimizing contact with places and people outside my home. As a frequent fl...

Our Gamay Journey

  In the harvest of 2022, Malivoire’s Courtney Block quietly passed a milestone.  Twenty years ago, this vineyard produced its first yield for a then-experimental wine we now call Courtney Gamay (...