Rosewood Estates Winery
Rosewood Estates Winery & Meadery is an award winning boutique winery located on the Beamsville Bench. Family owned and operated, Rosewood is proud to produce 100% VQA Ontario wines and the first honey wines in Niagara.
Our focus is simple. Craft honest low-intervention wine, innovative mead, and local honey that reflect their individuality as artifacts of the Niagara Region. By capturing the expression of each vintage, we allow the wine to tell its own story. Welcome to the journey.
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The story behind Rosewood Estates
Rosewood is a winery, a meadery, and an apiary all at once, and the bees came first. The Roman family has kept bees since 1932, and a long-held dream of making honey wine finally came together when they planted on the Beamsville Bench in 2000.
The winery opened in 2008. Honey and wine have shared the estate ever since, which is still a rare thing to find in Niagara.
Wine and honey off the Bench
Winemaker Ryan Corrigan joined in 2016 and works in a low-intervention style. The wines to know are the off-dry Sussreserve Riesling and the single-vineyard Semillon, with Pinot Noir and Merlot on the red side.
Then there is the mead. Rosewood keeps around 300 hives across the region, and that honey becomes mead alongside the wine. It was the first grape and honey winery in Ontario certified by Sustainable Winemaking Ontario.
Frequently asked questions
What is Rosewood Estates known for?
Rosewood is known for being a winery and a meadery in one. It makes Beamsville Bench wines like Sussreserve Riesling and Semillon, plus mead and honey from its own bees. The family beekeeping goes back to 1932.
Does Rosewood really make mead?
Yes. Rosewood keeps roughly 300 beehives across Niagara and makes mead, which is wine made from honey, right alongside its grape wines. It was Ontario's first grape and honey winery certified for sustainable practices.
Where is Rosewood Estates?
On the Beamsville Bench, a well-regarded stretch of the Niagara Escarpment near Beamsville, Ontario. The Bench is prized for aromatic whites and cool-climate reds.