Hotels Windsor

Windsor offers a unique selection of tastes for the adventurous gourmet. Visit local makers of wine, whisky, ale, and candy, all during your tasting adventure. Quality Suites Windsor is one of the best situated downtown hotels for your taste exploration.

Take a tour of the Executive building of Windsor’s own Canadian Club Whisky, and explore the place where the brand was born in 1858. Learn more about Prohibition in the United States, and how Canadian Club became the most popular brand of whisky. Before you leave, don’t forget your souvenir glass and tasting of the Canadian Club portfolio.

If it’s pilsner you prefer, you’ll enjoy the Walkerville Brewing Company, in the historic Walkerville district of Windsor. This premium facility offers brewery tours and tastings of its Classic Amber, Premium Blonde, and Superior Light. Discover the Walkerville brand, founded in 1886 and resurrected in 1998 by a family committed to serving Windsor only the finest beers.

Wine lovers will enjoy tours offered by Canada South Wine Tours. Their guides pick up guests of Windsor hotels, and then do all the driving as you explore the wineries of the area surrounding Windsor. Learn the wine-making process and try the regional favorites of Canada’s Lake Erie North Shore Area.

Chocolate aficionados will enjoy the opportunity to see quality candies being made at two local Windsor companies. Tour the facility at Walker’s Fine Candies, where the workers still melt chocolate in copper pots and mix it on marble slabs. Taste their different types of hand dipped truffles and take home some of their peanut toffee ice cream topping. Visitors to The Purple Cow can watch as the staff transforms all the finest all natural ingredients into a delectable assortment of truffles, candies, popcorn, and candied apples.