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International News
The Mad Scientists of the
Niagara Peninsula
By: Alyssa Andres
M any wine regions of the world are ment and age their wines, nothing is off-limits. As
known for producing a certain style of
an extremely youthful winemaking region, Ontario
wine. In many Old World wine regions,
they are bound by laws as well as centuries of is still discovering what it can do. In the Niagara
Peninsula, there are a few winemakers determined
tradition to grow only particular grapes and use to push it to the next level.
specific techniques in their vineyard and winery. In
Ontario, Canada, winemakers have the complete Unexpected
freedom to play around with their winemaking
styles and manipulate their grapes as they see fit. At Big Head Wines, father and son duo, Andrzej
From the varietals they grow to the way they fer- and Jakub Lipinski, are two winemakers that have
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