PEILCC Annual Report 2025

ROSSIGNOL ESTATE WINERY

The idea for Rossignol Estate Winery was born when my wife and I sailed from Ontario to PEI aboard our 40-foot, home-built ketch, Nightingale. We came across a cleared, sloping 20-acre potato field in Little Sands with perfect southern exposure and began building in 1990. Our first priority was the essentials: a house, barn, and workshop, which took about three years to complete. During that time, I started making wine as a hobby. scene to speak of, a result of long-standing prohibition-era regulations. After several years of conversations with the Department of Agriculture and the Liquor Control Commission, I finally got the call. It was Gilbert Clements, phoning on the last day of the House sitting in 1994, to say we were approved for a winery license. Construction on the winery began right away. It quickly became clear that while PEI had a tobacco industry, there was no wine

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