20 Years - Milestones along our journey

This year, this month, marks 20 years since we drove across Canada from an established winemaking career in the Okanagan Valley to acquire our piece of paradise in Gaspereau, Nova Scotia. Each year on July 21 our family celebrates that coming-home milestone and next year our winery will be celebrating the formal establishment of L’Acadie Vineyards – 20 year anniversary of planting organic vines for sparkling wine in 2005.

Many milestones in the last 20 years, here are the highlights,

• 2005 – Established Nova Scotia’s first organic vineyard. Certified organic from inception.
• 2008 – Opened sustainable winery with geothermal heating and cooling and insulated concrete construction
• 2008 – Released Nova Scotia’s first traditional method sparkling
• 2008 – Nova Scotia’s first appassimento wines with releases of Alchemy and Passito from our 5-year appassimento research project with Agriculture Canada and collaboration with Italian researchers.
• 2010 – Gold and top scoring sparkling for 2007 Prestige Brut at 2010 National Wine Awards. A first for Nova Scotia.
• 2011 – Silver medal for 2007 Prestige Brut at 2011 Effervescents du Monde (Dijon, France) First international sparkling award for Nova Scotia. 
• 2015 – Silver medal for 2010 Prestige Brut zero dosage at 2015 Effervescents du Monde.
• 2021 - Certified to European Biocyclic Vegan standard, the first farm and winery in North America.
• 2023 – Gold medal, 95 points for 2017 Prestige Brut Estate at 2023 Decanter World Wine Awards. First gold medal and highest level of achievement for Nova Scotia sparkling from Decanter, after earning silver and 92 points for multiple previous vintages.