Accueil » Les Vergers Villeneuve: Fruit wine and 125 years of family farming tradition Little-known haskap berries grow on a globe-shaped deciduous bush that can reach about two metres in height while offering a slightly tart flavour akin to a raspberry Most important to farmer and winemaker Michel Villeneuve their name derived from a word in the rare Hokkaido Ainu language also make a very fine fruit wine – a beverage that Villeneuve has been producing since 2017 Les Vergers Villeneuve and Blueberry Farm where he makes the wine “This farm is 175 years old and has been in my family for 125 years,” Villeneuve says “My great-grandfather was a dairy farmer here but we converted it after the 1998 ice storm He retired from farming – after ten days without power.” Villeneuve’s haskap wine has been part of a robust lineup of 19 fruit wines made on the 16-hectare farm on Rollin Road in the village of Saint-Pascal-Baylon “A friend of mine had been making fruit wine for about 40 years and used my blueberries I had the time and spent a year with him learning,” Villeneuve says He then bought all of his friend’s equipment and had it shipped and re-installed Villeneuve’s six or seven hectares of planted crops generously provides the growing conditions for his wine’s raw ingredients: 2,000 blueberry plants 500 cherry bushes and 50 grape vines along with 450 apple trees (with 25 varieties) Villeneuve will have hundreds of customers arrive to pick their own seasonal berries over the summer and fall it’s basically the same as traditional wine made from grapes as it is done around the world cherry and elderberry; there is also a cooking wine made with garlic scapes we put 140-lbs of blueberries in the barrel It takes them about ten days to ferment and then four weeks of processing before bottling,” he says The blueberry wine is by far Villeneuve’s most popular: on the scale of dry to sweet wines he produces Blueberry wine and Brie make a good pairing: just recollect the number of times you’ve seen warm pastry-wrapped Brie served with a blueberry compote at a restaurant to get the idea the ingredients and method of the recipe above brushes over the experience and trial-and-error learning-curve knowledge Inside the comfortable temperature-controlled barn and adjoining buildings a couple of employees are busy bottling wine; there’s the faintest fruity-yeasty aroma wafting through the air Several large blue-plastic barrels of fermenting fruit and juice sit adjacent to beautifully shaped and corked narrow-necked glass demijohns filled and ready for bottling Les Vergers Villeneuve is a relatively small producer compared to some fruit winemakers across the province and into Quebec: roughly 13,000 bottles each year Villeneuve describes the display shelves of wines as “serpentine,” winding from left to right and from dry (with no or little residual sugar) “Our most popular event is our wine and cheese pairings,” he says which might serve 500 to 600 people over the course of a summer you get a list of the wine and the food pairings to jot down your thoughts and tasting notes Villeneuve laughs and describes how couples will each buy their own individual preferred wine in the 375-mL bottles that are also available clocking in at a modest 9.9% alcohol by volume: it had a hint of sweetness and a balancing gentle tartness and longish finish; it was paired with a game salami made by Bearbrook Game Meats Take a sip of red currant wine and swirl it over your palate; eat a bit of cured meat or cheese and then take a second sip of wine: it’s noticeable how different the wine’s flavour is has the faintest notes of this first-of-spring vegetable; it’s quite refreshing as is the dandelion-flower wine with the suggested pairing of cheese curds from St-Albert has only four grams of residual sugar: that would count as a zero on LCBO shelf Quite delicious “Apple Chill” is more than merely chilled: a 19-litre jug of Villeneuve apple wine is set outside on a night when it will be -28C. the water and alcohol separate; the water freezes around the inside of the jug with liquid alcohol remaining in the centre poke a hole at the opening of the jug and recover the concentrated wine We now have our apple chill wine (at 16.9% ABV) instead of apple wine,” says Villeneuve “Autumn Pleasure” was also a bit of a surprise: it’s a deep dusky fruit wine and might remind one of Port with its raisin That all fruit wines are cloyingly sweet is clearly a notion of which Villeneuve wants to disabuse customers unfamiliar with the beverage “That’s the first thing we tell them,” he says is climate change and adapting to unexpected harsh frosts and extremes of rain and drought scorching heat waves and long cold periods “This is why we are introducing more resistant crops for wines are fruit and vegetable wines like that little-known haskap somehow a beverage that is idiosyncratic and unique to this part of the province if you ask Villeneuve who adds a geographic caveat Niagara and British Columbia,” he says as a farmer who grows his own crops “But you have to be able to get the fruit at a very good price.” Food writer Andrew Coppolino lives in Rockland He is the author of “Farm to Table” and co-author of “Cooking with Shakespeare.” Follow him on Instagram @andrewcoppolino Plateforme EZ Newzsite par Textuel et TolléDonnées météo fournies par OpenWeatherMap Posté par | 15 Oct 2019 | , , The “Sources of Peace” oper­a­tion is a source of war As soon as Amer­i­can troops with­drew from Syr­ia on Octo­ber 9th the Turk­ish State and the Nation­al Syr­i­an Army (an armed mili­tia made up for the most part of Islamist Jihadists) launched a mil­i­tary cam­paign called oper­a­tion “Source of Peace” against Roja­va and its demo­c­ra­t­ic fed­er­al sys­tem in North­ern Syria This attack in the name of “peace” and of the “fight against ter­ror­ism” revives the war in a region that has already been over­ly sub­ject­ed to it since 2011 Yet Turkey is the one whose obses­sive and bru­tal oppo­si­tion to the free­dom of Kur­dis­tan com­pro­mis­es this peace and acts as a terrorist has always been a sup­port­er of var­i­ous islamist forces pro­vid­ing for their care in hos­pi­tals with­in the Turk­ish bor­der buy­ing their oil and arm­ing the “beard­ed ones”: Jaysh al-Islam Ahrar al-Shar­qiya and the Sul­tan Murad divi­sion in particular There is unan­i­mous inter­na­tion­al con­dem­na­tion of the Turk­ish aggression The pop­u­la­tions under attack are those who fought against the Islam­ic State and who won the deci­sive bat­tles against it dur­ing the war: Kobané Let us sim­ply remem­ber the 11 000 Kur­dish and FDS fight­ers who died bat­tling ISIS or the groups linked to Al-Qaï­da; the close to 25 000 wound­ed in the fierce bat­tles for Free­dom in Kur­dis­tan but also in the Sin­jar in order to pro­tect the Yezidis who were the vic­tims of the begin­ning of a geno­cide in Syria It took a long time for West­ern­ers to decide to sup­port these forces (instead of the Free Syr­i­an Army the con­tent and exis­tence of which was more and more vague) Now that West­ern­ers no longer need the demo­c­ra­t­ic forces led by the Kurds It left Roja­va alone to face its ene­mies this is also an accep­tance of the reap­pear­ance of Isis’ reli­gious fanaticism is an attempt at an alter­na­tive and intel­li­gent solu­tion in a region worn down by strug­gles and wars; strug­gles instru­men­tal­ized by nation­alisms and/or reli­gions for over a century The trea­son per­pe­trat­ed by the Sates does not leave this project a sin­gle chance a nation­al­ist force advances for its sole inter­ests Despite its dif­fi­cul­ties and its lim­i­ta­tions the expe­ri­ence of demo­c­ra­t­ic con­fed­er­al­ism in the midst of the Syr­i­an chaos The devel­op­ment of mul­ti-con­fes­sion­al­ism the build­ing of an econ­o­my from the ground up with the cre­ation of numer­ous pro­duc­tion coop­er­a­tives ren­der its exis­tence intolrable for Erdo­gan the autocrat We can­not remain indif­fer­ent to the fate of pop­u­la­tions liv­ing on this ter­ri­to­ry nor to that of the fight­ers in the Peo­ple’s Pro­tec­tion Units (YPG/YPJ) and the FDS (Kurds The count of vic­tims could climb into the thou­sands again by Turkey with its ‘Olive Branch” oper­a­tion thou­sands of peo­ple were killed or dis­ap­peared The tes­ti­mo­ni­als record­ed on videos show the infamy that was perpetrated The time should final­ly come to leave the Mid­dle-East free to choose its own des­tiny But how could world pow­ers let a region so rich in resources (water oil) and so strate­gi­cal­ly locat­ed free to enjoy its free­dom The region will know nei­ther peace nor sta­bil­i­ty as long as cap­i­tal­ist States will play out their games of influ­ence there The Mid­dle-East must be returned to its peoples we must exert pres­sure on the var­i­ous gov­ern­ments so that they stop imme­di­ate­ly the Turk­ish expan­sion­ism and inva­sion; our gov­ern­ments must end the hypocrisy and stop sup­port­ing dic­ta­to­r­i­al forces; the PKK must be removed from the lists of ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tions indi­rect­ly or via coop­er­a­tion (Thales) with dic­ta­tor­ships with our lim­it­ed means sup­port boy­cotts of the Turk­ish econ­o­my Boy­cot tourism to Turkey; boy­cot Turk­ish Air­lines Not every­one can take arms to fight with our broth­ers and sis­ters in Roja­va but every­one can make a ges­ture at his or her own level La Librairie Les Nuits Bleues has cho­sen to relay the cam­paign of the asso­ci­a­tion Soleil Rouge “A Kur­dish human­i­tar­i­an asso­ci­a­tion asso­ci­a­tion Soleil Rouge France — Roja Sor works with asso­ci­a­tions on the ground IMMEDIATELY for Kur­dish and inter­na­tion­al­ist com­rades fight­ing against ISIS and Turkey; who are fight­ing for Eman­ci­pa­tion Defend­ing North­east­ern Syr­ia against the inva­sion by the Turk­ish army and its Jihadist affil­i­ates does not only con­sist in defend­ing life and peace It is also a choice as to the kind of world in which we live Conçu par Elegant Themes | Propulsé par WordPress Nous utilisons des cookies pour vous offrir la meilleure expérience sur notre site You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings Ce site utilise des cookies afin que nous puissions vous fournir la meilleure expérience utilisateur possible Les informations sur les cookies sont stockées dans votre navigateur et remplissent des fonctions telles que vous reconnaître lorsque vous revenez sur notre site Web et aider notre équipe à comprendre les sections du site que vous trouvez les plus intéressantes et utiles Cette option doit être activée à tout moment afin que nous puissions enregistrer vos préférences pour les réglages de cookie nous ne pourrons pas enregistrer vos préférences Cela signifie que chaque fois que vous visitez ce site vous devrez activer ou désactiver à nouveau les cookies.