A tinto de verano to accompany your summer, as well as lemonade and wine suggestions. Everything to satisfy your thirst.
Your summer’s favorite cocktail
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Tinto de verano and its variations
That’s it, finally. The weather is nice, it’s warm, and we’re all very eager to enjoy it! What are we serving guests this summer? Tinto de verano, friends!
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Lemonade, much more than a drink
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Tristan Dumais will sell lemonade during The Great Day for Small Entrepreneurs.
A thirst-quenching drink par excellence, lemonade evokes summer, heat, and sunshine. Over the past century, it has also become a symbol of entrepreneurship and success. While waiting to drink a glass on a terrace, we dissect, for pleasure, its different facets.
Read the article by Véronique Larocque
Warm Weather Wines
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Rosé wine is ideal for summer days. But whites and reds that are pleasant to drink in hot weather also exist! Some are obvious: German Rieslings, Vinho Verde, many Beaujolais. These are wines low in alcohol, low in tannin and with refreshing acidity. Here are three more. What they all have in common: they must be served chilled, including the red ones.
Read the article by our collaborator, sommelier Véronique Rivest
In the jewel case
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Bijou, a new cocktail bar to discover in Old Quebec
Lovers of sophisticated cocktails and unusual spaces, there is something new in Quebec that should charm you: Le Bijou, a cocktail bar opened since last summer in the heart of Old Quebec inside de Monsieur Jean, a private mansion with around forty rooms.
Read the article by Iris Gagnon-Paradis
Hopelay artisanal microbrewery sets up in Lanaudière
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At the pumps, we find a few house beers and a few guests. Ultimately, 16 barrels will be offered.
While several Quebec towns have an artisanal microbrewery, Saint-Lin–Laurentides, very close to Mascouche, did not yet have its own. This has now been achieved since the opening of Hopelay artisanal microbrewery at the end of last April.
Read Catherine Schlager’s article
Liquid gastronomy in Quebec
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The new cocktail bar of the La Tanière group, Vieux Carré
The La Tanière Group, with its Restaurant of the Year Award for its Tanière gourmet restaurant and the Laurel for Mixologist of the Year awarded to Simon Faucher this week, has just opened a cocktail bar in Quebec, near Petit-Champlain.
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Ten years of Isle de Garde
PHOTO MARCO CAMPANOZZI, THE PRESS
The core of the Isle de Garde brewery team (from left to right): Matthieu Gauthier, Michaël Ruel, Marc-Aurèle Lussier, Clarisse Barrette Vigneault and Olivier Dupras
Shortly after the opening of the brewpub » neighborhood that he and his partners had dreamed of so much, Michaël Ruel still remembers leaning at the end of the bar and contemplating the crowd of customers seated around a pint. “I was on cloud nine, and this cloud has lasted for 10 years. We’re still pinching ourselves,” he says.
Read Émilie Côté’s article