Effervescents du Monde - Nova Scotia's first international sparkling awards

Effervescents du Monde is a prestigious competition of the best sparkling wines in the world and in 2011 and again in 2015 L'Acadie Vineyards turned heads by claiming silver medals for their Prestige Brut and the first international sparkling awards for Nova Scotia!

The 2007 and 2010 vintages of Prestige Brut that won at the competitions were superb and put Nova Scotia wine region on the sparkling wine map. Since then there have been continuous accolades and more awards for more recent vintages, namely multiple times at Decanter World Wine Awards in London where the 2017 Prestige Brut Estate won Gold and 95 points, the first Decanter gold medal for Nova Scotia, the highest level of quality achievement. 

The matrix of factors and decisions was deliberate to achieve this highest level of quality,

• Bruce Ewert earned similar wine awards when he was an experienced sparkling winemaker in the Okanagan Valley.
• Bruce and family indentified that L'Acadie Blanc was ideal for sparkling while on investigative trips to Nova Scotia and tasting still wine versions from Annapolis Valley wineries in the early 2000's before there was a bubble in the province. We were the first to release sparkling wine in 2008!
• L'Acadie Vineyards estate in Gaspereau was chosen for its rocky well-drained soil. Schist, sandstone, slate, and ancient seabed. In 2017 test holes revealed roots going deep, over 3 feet.
• Farming organically and now Biocyclic Vegan as well encourages a heathly living soil so terroir mineral characters are amplified
• Prestige Brut comes from the same estate block every year, traditional method sparkling with aging for 5 years in a underground tirage cellar.