Wine region
Quebec
Quebec is a wine region in Canada, home to 27 wineries, producing red, rose, white wines.
On this page
Quebec's 27 wineries make roughly equal white and red wine; Riesling is the most common single-grape bottling.
About the Quebec region
- Location
- Quebec wine is wine made in the province of Quebec.
- Climate
- However, the four-month-long winter of this humid continental climate zone freezes the land deep enough that most varieties of European vines do not survive.
- Soils
- Quebec’s wine regions have varied glacial and postglacial soils, including thick marine clays, sand, gravel and pebbles, glacial deposits ranging from calcareous to acidic slate-derived material, and local limestone, shale and mixed loam…
Region facts sourced from Conseil des vins du Québec, Nos régions viticoles, retrieved 2026-07-12. (Conseil des vins du Québec website terms; factual extraction with minimum necessary quotation), Wikipedia contributors, "Quebec wine", Wikipedia, revision 1314509188, retrieved 2026-07-11. (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International).
Most common single-grape wines
When Quebec wines are made from a single grape (rather than a blend), these are the most common:
- Riesling
- 4 single-grape wines
- Chardonnay
- 3 single-grape wines
- Gewürztraminer
- 3 single-grape wines
- Pinot Noir
- 2 single-grape wines
- Cabernet Franc
- 1 single-grape wine
- Gamay
- 1 single-grape wine
Wine profile
Quebec is roughly split, making substantial white (54%) and red (28%) wine.
151 distinct Quebec wines tracked, spanning the colours and styles below.
- White82 · 54%
- Red43 · 28%
- Rose26 · 17%
Types: Sparkling, Still.
Representative Quebec wines
Selected from stable product-to-region relationships for diversity — not a claim that these are the region's best wines.
- L'orpailleur — Rose
- Le Vignoble du Ruisseau — Signature Pinot Noir
- Negondos — Julep
- Saint Pierre le Vignoble — Parfum d�Acadie
- Les Pervenches — Les Rosiers Chardonnay
- Le Vignoble du Ruisseau — Riesling
- Le Vignoble du Ruisseau — Chardonnay & Pinot Noir
- Leon Courville — Cuvee Vidal
Canada wine designations
- BC VQA
- BC VQA is British Columbia’s regulated appellation-of-origin certification system and includes minimum quality requirements.
- IGP Vin du Québec
- IGP Vin du Québec is the Quebec protected geographical indication recognised in 2018 for qualifying still, sparkling and liqueur wines sold under its approved specification.
- VQA
- Ontario VQA is a regulated wine-of-origin certification program covering origin, composition, laboratory testing, sensory review and label integrity.
Understanding the wine data
- Designation
- The protected-origin or administrative category associated with the wine, interpreted using country-aware rules. The same abbreviation can mean different things in different countries, so we only show the meaning approved for that country.
How this ranking is built
Producers are included when WhatDrink has a canonical producer-to-region relationship supported by the catalogue data. Display order may use represented wine count and relationship confidence to provide useful coverage; it is not a ranking of winery quality, prestige, production volume or critical acclaim.
Representative wines are selected from products with a stable relationship to this region, with preference for clear producer identity and a useful spread of producers, wine styles and designations. Inclusion is not an editorial score and does not mean these are the region’s best wines.
Explore Quebec
Ways to browse Quebec — each count is the size of that specific collection (a subset of the 151 wines tracked above):
- White Quebec (82)
- Red Quebec (43)
- Rose Quebec (26)
FAQs
- Where is Quebec?
- Quebec wine is wine made in the province of Quebec .
- What do the designation terms on Quebec wines mean?
- IGP Vin du Québec: IGP Vin du Québec is the Quebec protected geographical indication recognised in 2018 for qualifying still, sparkling and liqueur wines sold under its approved specification. These terms describe geographical or regulatory categories; they do not by themselves guarantee that one producer or bottle is better than another.
- How are wineries and producers selected for Quebec?
- Producers are included when WhatDrink has a canonical producer-to-region relationship supported by the catalogue data. Display order may use represented wine count and relationship confidence to provide useful coverage; it is not a ranking of winery quality, prestige, production volume or critical acclaim.
- How are representative Quebec wines selected?
- Representative wines are selected from products with a stable relationship to this region, with preference for clear producer identity and a useful spread of producers, wine styles and designations. Inclusion is not an editorial score and does not mean these are the region’s best wines.
- How much wine data does WhatDrink have for Quebec?
- The current regional catalogue contains 151 linked wines from 27 linked producers. Counts describe WhatDrink catalogue coverage and may change as source data is refreshed.
Regional data is aggregated from wine directory and product-catalogue sources; grape and style associations reflect characteristic varieties and may vary by producer and vintage.