Beautiful Niagara Winery Motorcycle Tour

What’re two things that shouldn’t mix? Motorcycles and wine? Well, Rob did just that! Join Rob from Explorations as goes on a beautiful Niagara winery motorcycle tour. To clarify, though, there was zero drinking on this trip, but more so a motorcycle tour through some of the most beautiful sceneries in the wine region of Southern Ontario. There has been some less than enthusiastic opinions about Niagara wine and motorcycle touring in Southern Ontario. Hopefully this article will give you a better insight of what there is to offer!

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Niagara Falls view from the Canada side.

For some reason, Southern Ontario wine has suffered a bad reputation and stigma. However, the wines have been winning international awards and getting recognition from sommeliers around the world. The Niagara winery region is one of the best and well known areas to be producing wine. And especially, ice wine! Ice wine differs in the production method where the grapes are harvested frozen and so it brings out the sugars. It’s a really sweet wine and best reserved as a dessert wine.

If you’re interested in some more wine suggestions, we did boxed wine tasting for the reds and the whites for the purposes of carrying non-glass items into the back country. These are not necessarily from the Niagara winery region, though.

Niagara Winery

Niagara winery motorcycle tour is always encouraged. It is a a beautiful region to ride through, with enjoyable twisties and turns, though, you can certainly make a whole day through the entire region. This includes riding out to Niagara falls proper and enjoying the attractions and through the beautiful Niagara winery region, down the Niagara River Parkway.

There are an incredible amount of wineries to be visited in around the region. However, the below list is Rob’s best picks, having been living around the area for a while, he knows the ins and outs. On this trip Rob checked out several wineries on the Beamsville Bench and Twenty Mile Bench.

What is a “Bench”? According to the VQA: “The Beamsville Bench, running from the creek gully just west of Cherry Avenue to Park Road west of Beamsville, is the narrow plateau sloping gradually from the cliff of the Niagara Escarpment northwards to Regional Road 81, marking the bottom of the crescent-shaped Lake Iroquois Shore Bluff. To the west, the Bench rises into the moderate slopes of the Bell Terrace, where many of the area’s vineyards are located, on steep slopes above deep, wooded ravines and on the sides of small ridges and slopes of the numerous streams that cut through the landscape.” This makes for a beautiful Niagara winery motorcycle tour!

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Motorcycle Tour and Other Attractions

There are several other resources online to plan your trip while enjoying the beautiful Niagara winery region, but still not necessarily as a motorcycle tour. Going through the “Bench” is a wonderful experience. Especially if you’re into geography, as well. Of course, the Niagara is where the Escarpment starts and stretches to Georgian Bay. This provides some amazing motorcycling views, being around Toronto, where it’s known to be straight and flat roads.

Beautiful Niagara Winery Motorcycle Tour, all ready rip roar!

However, some of our recommendations include of the Niagara region includes:

Niagara Tunnel
- New attraction in Canada`s oldest tourist attraction provides a unique perspective of the falls. Recently opened, walk through the tunnels of the the old power station!
Old Fort George
- Parks Canada maintains this fort and re-live the history! Some of the more contemporary history, including the war of 1812 are re-enacted here!
Old Fort Eerie
- Maintained by Niagara Parks, this fort tells the story of the other end of the Niagara River. Whoever controlled the Great Lakes, effectively controlled North America, at the time.
Niagara on the Lake
- A historical little town with a lot of history, including Laura Secord playing a pivotal role in the settlers version of the war of 1812.
Niagara Glen
- While it’s illegal to climb this part of the escarpment, you can get in on some bouldering right by the Niagara river!