Avondale Sky Winery - Newport Landing

I suggest if you are in Nova Scotia that you visit as many wineries as you can. This is a great first stop. Beautiful setting, building, and very generous tastings. They also have many wines to choose from with very friendly and knowledgeable staff. There is outdoor seating with umbrellas with wonderful scenery. I did hope for a covered patio for a very hot day. Will go again on our next visit.

Avondale Sky is our province's newest winery, and it's absolutely gorgeous. If you're on your way to the valley, I definitely recommend you make a stop just outside of Windsor first to see their beautiful property. They're housed in a church! A church filled with wine! The jokes write themselves, people. The beautiful property is really worth seeing, and I recommend picking up a couple bottles of their Tidal Bay and Riesling wines.

Avondale Sky is easily the most picturesque winery and vineyard we have in this province and I 'm willing to bet it 's easily one of the least known within Nova Scotia 's growing wine country. Opened as a passion project within the last few years, Avondale Sky was made when owners floated a church over 40kms down a river before it found its gorgeous new home. The winery 's shop and tasting area now lives in the church itself which has been beautifully fixed up while retaining as many of the original features as possible. Inside you 'll find Avondale Sky 's handful of wines including my favourites, their Tidal Bay and Riesling, along with jellies, salts, and oils handpicked to complement them. Personally, I wasn 't too fond of the red or rosé, but I 'll leave that up to you to decide for yourself. Staff on hand during our visit were so welcoming, friendly, and ranked very low on the 'wine sob ' scale which was perfect for us. So while it 's a little out of the way, it 's well worth a visit next time you 're heading out to the Windsor area.

A great winery from the old church interior, to the outdoor dining area, to the quite wide variety of wines available. We went for lunch on the patio, then did a tasting inside. The wines were nice and clean, with a number of small batch options like a sparkling red and atypical NS grape varieties. The food was well prepared, with fresh seafood, and the black pepper in the strawberry shortcake's buttermilk batter was an inventive touch. The winery is out of the way from most of the ones in the valley, but had enough charm and quality varied offerings to make it worth the detour.

This little winery is worth a quick detour on your way to visit the other wineries in the valley. The tasting room is stunning, it is an old church that they floated down the river! The windows let in lots of natural light and the floors and beams are beautiful. The wines are nice, I'm a fan of the Riesling and the Tidal Bay. I like that they have samples of jellies, salt, oil and bread to try along with the wine samples. They can really change the taste of the wine.