Following the Ontario Wine Route

摘要

NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE—My wife and I are driving down a two-lane road bordered by vineyards, a scene you'd say was vintage Napa Valley. Except for one thing: we've just pulled off the Queen Elizabeth highway after the hour-and-a-half drive around Lake Ontario from Toronto on the north shore to the storybook town of Niagara-on-the-Lake on the lake's southern edge, where one of Canada's principal wine regions, the Niagara Peninsula, spreads across a flat, 30-mile plain. It's a getaway many Torontonians like to do themselves when they crave a comfy stay in a bed-and-breakfast, great local wine and cuisine, shopping in Niagara-on-the-Lake's quaint shops, and, of course, a performance at the acclaimed Shaw Festival, the only theatre in the world specializing in the plays of the Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw.