Icewine Festival February 4&5
“Hear! hear!” screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, “winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it.”
~Henry David Thoreau, 28 November 1858 journal entry
It’s magical – the Valley was in full “winter bloom” … gleaming white snow-covered rolling hills, etched with reddish rows of sleeping grape vines, set against clear blue skies …a picture post card image.
From atop the slopes that Pete has transformed into Luckett Vineyards, we looked across the rolling countryside to the blue waters of the Minas Basin. Against this backdrop families were sledding down a 500 foot luge run between the vines to an awaiting horse drawn sled – a luxury means to be conveyed back to the top. More »












