It's an early morning for students in Niagara College's wine programs.
By 4 a.m. this morning, they were out in the vineyard picking grapes for Icewine at the Niagara College Teaching Winery.
This marks the earliest harvest in the college's history thanks to an early cold snap last night.
Dean of the Canadian Food and Wine Institute Craig Youdale says they have to wait for a specific overnight low.
"As a temperature it has to be legally -8 to be called icewine according to VQA standards. And everyone will have their nuanced temperature they like, -9, -10, but you can't get it too cold because then the grapes become too hard to press."