Moray Tawse
Proprietor
A financier by trade and lifelong lover of wine, Moray Tawse could also be called a terroir collector.
After realizing the potential of winemaking in Niagara, Moray purchased his first vineyard in 2001. In 2005 he opened Tawse Winery, the winery that bears his family name. He then secured vineyards in his beloved Burgundy and his project with famed winemaker Pascal Marchand, Marchand Tawse was born.
Redstone became his second project on the Niagara Escarpment, confessing “When you get an opportunity to get a terroir where the wine’s great, you buy another vineyard!”. When the former Thomas and Vaughan property came up for sale in 2009, it was an opportunity he simply couldn’t pass up.
The vineyard, which is ideally suited to maturing late-ripening Bordeaux-varietals, was originally intended to supplement the Tawse portfolio. However, when the first wines were made in 2010, they showed such a unique character and terroir signature that Moray decided that they deserved their own home. Along with building a state-of the art tasting room in an ideal location off Highway 8 to, Moray would also get the opportunity to indulge another of his passions with the opening of locally-inspired, 80-seat restaurant and spacious patio. The rest is Redstone history…
