I had never heard of it before, but Jean-Michel raved about Ice Cider while he was here from Montreal this week. Apparently, this new wine, made from frozen apples, is all the rage in eastern Canada. I've tasted wine there before, and loved the ice wines from the Niagara region, so I became interested when Jean-Michel recommended Le Face Cachee de la Pomme, a producer near Quebec that he knows well.
So, I Googled, and I found lots of enticing stories about ice cider, including this one in the New York Times. I think I will add this to my list of travel destinations on the list of things to do before I die. Doesn't this excerpt from Marialisa Calta's article the NYT article sound wonderful?
"Although there are producers of ice cider outside of the Eastern Townships, there is a de facto “cider trail” concurrent with the well-marked Route des Vins (wine route), which extends from Bedford, Quebec (about 10 miles north of the Vermont border) on the west, north to Farnham and east to Lac-Brome. At least four ice cider makers and five vineyards are clustered around the towns of Dunham and Frelighsburg, just east of Bedford.
"In the fall, the rolling two-lane roads of the area are lined with yellowing cornstalks, neatly planted rows of grapes and apple orchards advertising “auto-cueillette” (the French equivalent of pick your own). Lumbering farm vehicles occasionally slow travel to a crawl. Small villages — many with beckoning restaurants, boutiques, galleries and bed-and-breakfasts — make for lingering side trips."
Mental vacation over... back to work.
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