Wine tasting event at Yarmouth County Museum Oct. 26

Six vintages will be available from the Annapolis Valley winery, owned by vintner Hanspeter Stutz.

Domaine de Grand Pré has taken a fresh approach to producing top-quality Nova Scotia wines. Unlike most modern wineries that have adopted the trend of producing Old World wines such as Chardonnay, Domaine de Grand Pré believes that new wine-producing areas in Nova Scotia should develop their own varieties, styles and vineyard practices that will thrive in the local soil and oceanic climate. To achieve this, the winery has partnered with Agriculture Canada to develop hardy Nova

Scotian grape varieties.

Some of the wines resulting include Seyval Blanc(a light bodied crisp white wine and gold medal winner at the 2007 all-Canadian wine championships); L'Acadie Blanc (a full-bodied white and bronze medal winner at the 2004 international eastern wine competition); Verrazano, a dry rosé wine named after explorer Giovanni da Verrazano, who first gave the name Arcadia to our Atlantic coast); Léon Millot (a sister variety to the Maréchal Foch grape that is a light-bodied dry red wine) and Marechal Foch (a deeply coloured red wine with a full, round flavour and a long finish. It was the silver medal winner at the 2003 all Canadian wine championships).

A limited number of tickets are available for the event. The cost is $10 for historical society members and $12 for non-members. Call 902-742-5539 to reserve.