Élevage Winter Wine Festival
Join us for our 4th annual Élevage Winter Wine Festival where we celebrate the barrel ageing process and enjoy the beauty of winter in PEC.
Join us for our 4th annual Élevage Winter Wine Festival where we celebrate the barrel ageing process and enjoy the beauty of winter in PEC.
Élevage Winter Wine Festival
Join us for an unforgettable experience at Élevage, a one-of-a-kind winter wine festival taking place in Prince Edward County, ON, Canada, on Saturday, March 14th and Sunday, March 15th, the first weekend of March Break. This celebration will be centred around the heart of Élevage . We will be hosting Elevated Tastings in addition to our self guided Tasting Passport, so our guests have the opportunity to celebrate Élevage and truly experience the ageing process wines go through between fermentation and bottling. This is a unique chance to converse with wine makers, experience the cellars and see first hand the beauty of the ageing process. These exclusive tastings will have space for 12 particpants only, and will fill up fast!
Élevage Passport — $20 + Fees, Tax
Grab your friends, your family, your neighbours, whoever you want to drink PEC wine with this winter! Embark on a delightful wine-tasting adventure with our Élevage Passport Program. Use our passport to visit 5 different locations over Elevage weekend and sip your way through Prince Edward County. Your passport grants you one complimentary sample at five participating wineries and cideries over Saturday and Sunday. Samples are typically 1-1.5 oz. Once you've savoured your way through, don't forget to fill in your name and contact details on your passport and hand it in at one of the participating wineries for a chance to win the grand prize!
Élevage Passport & Elevated Tasting — $50 + Fees, Tax
Included in your $50 ticket is 1 elevated tasting experience of your choosing and your tasting passport, with an additional 5 samples at participating wineries and cideries. *Your elevated tasting is unique chance to converse with wine makers, experience the cellars and see first hand the beauty of the ageing process. When purchasing your ticket, please select the Elevated Tasting you wish to attend, these are held in specific time slots over the course of Saturday and Sunday and will last approximately 1 hour. These exclusive tastings will have space for 12 particpants only, and will fill up fast!
Additional Elevated Tasting (only with purchase of a full passport) — $25 + Fees, Tax
Can't choose just one Elevated Tasting experience? Want to visit an old favourite and try out somewhere new? Not to worry! Ticket holders may purchase an additional elevated tasting experience for $25 at check out.
Elevated Tasting Time Slots:
Saturday March 14th
11:00 am Sugarbush Vineyards and Winery OR Trail Estate Winery
12:00 pm Broken Stone Winery OR Loch Mor Cider Company
1:00 pm Closson Chase Vineyards OR Rosehall Run Vineyards
2:00 pm Grange of Prince Edward OR Keint-he Winery and Vineyards
Sunday March 15th
11:00 am Huff Estate Winery OR Stanners Vineyard
12:00 pm Norman Hardie Winery OR Harwood Estate Winery
1:00 pm Karlo Estates
* For more information on each unique offering, please see Agenda below*
Passports will be mailed to those who purchase before February 28th, with the option for having them emailed for printing or set aside at a winery for particpants who purchase after that.
Check out the full list of Passport participating wineries and cideries below:
Broken Stone Winery, 524 Closson Rd
Closson Chase Vineyards, 629 Closson Rd
County Cider Company, 657 Bongards Crossing
Grange of Prince Edward Winery, 990 Closson Rd
Harwood Estates Winery, 18908 Loyalist Pkwy
Huff Estates Winery, 2274 Prince Edward County Rd 1
Karlo Estates Winery, 561 Danforth Rd
Keint-he Winery & Vineyards, 49 Hubbs Creek Rd
Last House Vineyards at Rosehall Run Vineyard, 1243 Greer Rd
Lighthall Vineyards, 308 Lighthall Rd
Loch Mór Cider Co, 890 Danforth Rd
Morandin Wines at Rosehall Run Vineyard, 1243 Greer Rd
Norman Hardie Winery, 1152 Greer Rd
Rosehall Run Vineyards, 1243 Greer Rd
Sandbanks Winery, 17598 Loyalist Pkwy
Stanner’s Vineyard, 76 Station Rd
Sugarbush Vineyards & Winery, 1286 Wilson Rd
Trail Estate Winery, 416 Benway Rd
Waupoos Estate Winery, 3016 County Rd 8
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Highlights
- 1 day 6 hours
- In person
Refund Policy
Location
Prince Edward County, ON, Canada
Prince Edward County, ON, Canada
Prince Edward, ON
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Agenda
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Sugarbush Vineyards and Winery
Saturday, March 14th at 11am. Join us on the Elevage weekend for a jam packed wine experience. Your elevated wine tour experience starts in the vineyard (weather permitting) with a introduction to how Sugarbush Vineyards got started and how it got its name. Moving into our small, but efficient winery for a talk on how we produce 2,500 cases annually from our garage! Here we will start your wine tasting experience with a couple of tank samples from the 2024 harvest. This is the vintage picked last fall and will be going into bottle sometime this summer. Finally we move into our tasting area for a tutored wine tasting with the winemaker, Rob, who will talk you through a flight of our premium wines. Light snacks paired with your wines. This is a great opportunity to get a behind the scenes look and answers to any and all questions.
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Trail Estate Winery
Saturday, March 14th at 11am. Preview our 2023 Estate Chardonnays! Compare the nuances in terroir in North and South Blocks as well as together as the Estate Chardonnay. This is your first chance to try these truly limited wines as well as stock up on what is proving to be an exceptional vintage for your cellar!
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Broken Stone Winery
Saturday, March 14th at 12pm. Elevage: "the art of achieving the grapes' maximum potential through barrel aging, fining and filtering. Roughly translates to "raising" in English." Raise a glass with winemaker Tim, in an exclusive backroom tasting surrounded by barrels and tanks. Enjoy a pleasant discussion with the winemaker in his workshop, tasting his wines in progress. You'll have a unique opportunity to compare oaked and unoaked Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs, with the added bonus of comparing barrel wines from two premium Closson Rd vineyards. You can taste the influence of terroir in every sip - It's a feast for the senses! For the folks interested in more technical aspects, you'll learn about different vinification techniques, whole cluster fermentation and how that translates to different aroma and flavour profiles.