Château des Charmes

Our family’s winegrowing tradition started seven generations ago in the Alsace region of France. Our ancestors were farmers, winemakers and active members of their community. Around 1840 Paul Bosc Sr.’s great-great grandfather was granted land by France to establish vineyards in Algeria, then a French colony. It was in French Algeria where Paul, his wife Andrée and son Paul-André were born.

After a violent seven-year revolution, France gran...

We farm 280 acres of vineyards in four locations all within Niagara-on-the-Lake. Two vineyards are in the St. David’s Bench sub-appellation and the other two are in the Four Mile Creek sub-appellation. All of our wines are grown in these two sub-appellations and will carry the designation “St. David’s Bench” or the regional “Niagara-on-the-Lake”.

Dr. Tony Shaw, Professor in the Geography department of Brock University, has extensively studi...