pFor more than a century, the Ontario wine industry had found success producing mainly ports and sherries from American hybrid grapes, but as the 1970s approached, consumer tastes were changing and sales of the higher-alcohol wines were decreasing significantly. A new, low-alcohol refreshment wine named Baby Duck, produced by Andres winery from native labrusca varieties like Concord, became an overnight sensation, inspiring other wineries to imitate the pop wine style through the decade and helping to prop up sales, but overall, imported table wines continued to gain more and more market share. Some were beginning to question the future of the Ontario grape and wine industry.ppbrppWithin another 20 years, the native grapes that had sustained our winemaking for so long would finally be outlawed for use in making table wines in the province and growers would replace them with preferred varieties, both French hybrids and Viniferas. These vines, originally brought to the province by Bright