Visiting Niagara, Canada

Hi, My girlfriend and I are planning on going up to Niagara falls for a few days in a few weeks and want to take some time to go wine tasting. We are most interested in dessert wines, but if there are any amazing wines somewhere in the area, we'd love to taste them, regardless of varietal.

Specially, we're looking for wineries that have good dessert wines for less than $50-bottle. We want to try some of the more expensive ones as well, but we'd really like to find some nice dessert wines in the $15-$20 (US) range that we could drink often, plus some higher up that we could have once in a while.

The reason I set the limit at $50 (for half-bottle) is because going much higher brings you into German territory, and I've been told by local wine stores that German icewines are preferrable to Canadian wines at those prices. Plus, frankly, we're not thrilled with spending that much money for half a bottle of icewine.

The other limitations are that the winery be within about half hour of Niagara Falls and that (ideally) we could get their wine back in the US.

I live in the finger lakes region of New York, which has very good icewines - there's one that's articially frozen but still very very good from Standing Stone for $20 that's our favorite (and probably one of the better ones from this region). We've never tried any German eisweins, and I've only had the Jackson Triggs and Inniskilling Vidal Icewines from Canada.

I've compiled a list of wineries that have caught my eye. There's currently 16 wineries on the list, and I'm looking to get the list down to about 10 (maybe a few less). All of these seem to have pretty good ratings, but I'm wondering if people can help me pick out the best ones:

Inniskillin Jackson-Triggs Lialey Magnotta Peller Estates Coyote's Run Palatine Hills Vineland Estates Sunnybrook (We want to try some fruit wines) Cave Spring Henry of Pelham Malivoire Pillitteri Chateau des Charmes Hillebrand Peninsula Rdige Hernder

I've also heard Daniel Lenko is very good, but he's farther away than the rest and the web page says by appointment only, so we'll probably avoid him.

Can anyone offer any advice?

Thanks in advance, David