Quebec gin in the spotlight
The passion for local gin is far from running out of steam and mixologist Patrice Plante has published the most comprehensive work ever written on the subject. With the help of a team of tasters and mixologists, he analyzed and described all the Quebec gins available on the market. He tasted no less than 145 products! For each gin, there is a complete description of the aromas, in addition to suggestions for cocktails, syrups, tonics, as well as a personalized recipe. It is an impeccable tool which is already an incredible success: hardly arrived on the shelves, Everything about Quebec gins has already gone for reprint!
Everything about Quebec gins
Patrice Plante
La Presse editions
392 pages
$ 44.95
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To learn
Quebec sommelier Michelle Bouffard has made climate change her priority. With two French specialists, she signs a book which describes their impact on the world of wine. What wine for tomorrow? will undoubtedly become a reference. Written in a detailed, thoughtful and documented manner, it remains accessible to anyone interested in wine. It presents the challenges for the winegrowers of tomorrow: how to produce balanced wines when the climate warms? How can hybrid grape varieties contribute to the solution? If the subject interests you, Michelle Bouffard is the instigator of an international conference on climate change and wine, Goûter aux Changes Climate, which will take place from November 8 to 30.
What wine for tomorrow?
Jeremy Cukierman, Hervé Quénol and Michelle Bouffard
Dunod editions
304 pages
$ 37.95
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Alcohols from here in the spotlight
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One of the recipes from the book Drink Quebec : an atoca spritz!
Two years after the publication of Aperitif in Quebec, which was a great success, the young mixologist Rose Simard is back in force with a second book on local alcohols. From vodka to liqueurs via cider and gin, the creator of the 1 or 2 cocktails site does not only publish a collection of recipes; it also details the art of distillation and distinguishes between the different alcohols of Quebec before taking out the shaker and making us thirsty. In total, she suggests nearly a hundred recipes, each more inspiring than the last. Note to readers: it will be difficult to prevent yourself from trying them all.
Drink Quebec
Rose Simard
KO Editions
224 pages
$ 29.95
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Dreaming about your wine
Every wine lover dreams of one day creating his own cuvée. French journalist Laure Gasparotto did so in 2014. She left her Parisian life to settle in the south of France, where she founded the Domaine des Gentillières. She recounts her journey in Winegrower, an autobiographical novel published last spring. Was his dream a success? Not really. As she reads, the journalist explains the hard work in the vineyard, the exorbitant cost of operations and the many challenges related to marketing that finally pushed her to give up her dream after a few years. Written with a hard-hitting pen, the two hundred pages can be read as quickly as it takes to taste a red from Languedoc.
Winemaker: leaving Paris, changing your life, creating your own wine
Laure Gasparotto
Grasset editions
216 pages
$ 32.95
The ultimate guide to wine
The colossal work involved in writing a wine guide has got the better of almost all the works published in Quebec. Because there was a time not so long ago when there were five every year. Today, only that of Nadia Fournier remains. The one who took the reins of the legendary guide created more than 40 years ago by Michel Phaneuf is publishing a lighter version this year – without bottle labels, without bar codes, without indexes. The content is nonetheless relevant and informative with more than 1000 vintages described. Nadia Fournier was moreover pleased by giving a lot of space to natural wines and orange wines. Fans of Burgundy and Beaujolais will not be disappointed, as will fans of Quebec wines.
The 2022 wine guide
Nadia Fournier
Man’s Editions
298 pages
$ 29.95
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