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ley of Nova Scotia is known for its apples and throws a huge Apple Blossom Festival
through the production areas in early June every year. Everywhere in the region you'll
find roadside stalls selling strawberries July through August.
Each province also produces its own beef and poultry, and you'll find these very good
quality products on menus of better restaurants that promote locally sourced ingredients.
Keep an eye out for Cows ice cream, which is produced locally in PEI and is one of the
region's best known frozen treats.
WINE FESTIVALS
Nova Scotia Fall Wine Festival
( mid-Sep to mid-Oct)Celebrates the grape har-
vest province-wide with tastings, grape stomping, chef events and food pairings.
New Festival of Wines
(
www.peiwinefest.com
; PEI; late May)The province's
largest wine event with two evenings of tastings from vinyards around the world.
Icewine Festival
(Nova Scotia; Feb)Ten days of sampling icewines and food pair-
ings at different venues around Halifax.
Bottoms Up!
Moosehead is the region's best known beer, brewed in Saint John, New Brunswick. In
Newfoundland, Quidi Vidi (
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) microbrews flow through the provincial taps; try
Eric the Red. Beer lovers will also enjoy Alexander Keith's crisp beer from the eponym-
ous, good-time brewery (
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) in Halifax, but more discerning tastes may prefer
the craftier Garrison Brewery (
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)
which makes a number of brews including
some interesting seasonal flavors such as Sugar Moon Maple. Up and coming craft brew-
Line Rd, Nyanza, near Baddeck, Nova Scotia), which brews an organic and aptly named
'Kitchen Party Pale Ale,' and the
Authentic Seacoast Brewing company
(
www.rarebirdpub.com/brewery/
;
Guysborough, Nova Scotia) , which makes a dark and
rick coffee stout from beans they roast themselves.
Boutique wineries are also uncorking their bottles in Nova Scotia, mostly in the Anna-
polis Valley, Bear River area and on the Malagash Peninsula. Domaine de Grand Pré
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, Blomidon Estate Winery (
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)
and Jost Vineyards (
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)
are
the biggest, and these are the wines that you'll find in many fine restaurants in Nova Sco-
tia and occasionally beyond. Newer wineries to sample include
Benjamin Bridge
(
www.benjaminbridge.com
) , which makes a delicious, crowd-pleasing lightly sparkling
white called Nova 7 (do yourself a favor and try some), and Luckett Vineyards (
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