La Grande Dégustation 2018

La Grande Dégustation de Montréal
8th Edition

November 1 -3, 2018

La Grande Dégustation de Montréal is the largest annual wine and alcoholic beverages gathering in Eastern Canada. This year, 230 wine producers and distillers from 18 countries gather to share their passion with the visitors, connoisseurs and professionals, presenting more than 1,300 products, 800 of which are private imports. The event is expected 13,000 visitors, allowing Quebeckers to meet producers who come from all around the world while enjoying a unique tasting experience.

This year, Italy is the special guest of honour. Their kiosks occupy almost half of the exhibition space and offer a multitude of tasting experiences. The wine that is especially honoured this year is Pinot Gris, or Pinot Grigio in Italian. Look for many regional varieties of this wine, and talk to the produces to discover their specific growing and wine producing methods.

Besides italy, there are many other international wine producers with excellent wines to discover and taste.

Gin is also in the forefront this year and many excellent varieties are offered for a tasting.

And of course, their are food and culinary products to taste as well.

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For more information, visit La Grande Dégustation de Montréal website.

Italian Wines 2018

The Italian Trade Commission
A Tasting of Wines from Italy
23rd Edition

October 31, 2018

The Italian Trade commission organizes the Italian Wine tasting in Montreal each fall. Once again, as in the past years, it took place at the Marché Bonsecours located in Old Montreal, This annual even is extremely popular and attracts great crowds of wine tasters, producers, distributors, agents, and wine connoisseurs not only from Montreal but other Quebec locations as well as from some eastern Ontario regions. Everybody attending took a great interest wines presented this year. Though the event space is very large, nevertheless it was quite densely filled with the attendees who at times had to wait in line to taste some wines and to talk to wine producers.

This year had a record number of participating wine producers - 254 - each presenting their bet products. The variety and shear numbers of different wines available for tasting was truly overwhelming.

There was also plenty of food, mainly Italian cheeses and charcuterie specialities.

The event was a great success, well organized and very enjoyable.

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For more information, visit the Italian Trade Comission Wine Tasting webpage.