Québec Wine!

Yesterday I was at the 'Salon des Vin et Fromage du Québec'. I tasted 10 different red wines from different cépage. Sadly... I realize that cépage here in Québec are not as tasty as french or Italian one. I ended up chosing only 1 of them well balanced. It's a wine from Vents d'Ange winery. This one was the best.



The worst was St-Sulpice from the Domaine de l'Ile Ronde. This one was extremely unbalanced. Too long in oak barrel so no more wine taste.



In my opinion, Québec have still a lot to learn about wine making. After 30 years of wine making.... they didn't learn a lot. I think they like wine and they have the passion for sure... but to sell wine enough to become popular you have to follow some wine making rules. Since there is no 'appellation' in Québec, all of them are considered as country wine or assembly wine. Appellation is bunch of rules that apply to cépage and process in wine making. It's, for costumer, a way to be sure that the wines is not cut with water or strangely mixed. It give trust. Trust bring popularity. Popularity bring money. Money gives the possibily to offer more wines and quality. Without this basic trust... nothing will come.

Some of them have the potential to becomes as good as California or Autralian wines. French and Italian ... well ... it's more tough to try to get close to this quality. I hope they will developpe more. I think, in my opinion, that they MUST go get knowledge in France on wine making. Be helped by elder is the key to grow in life.