La Villa Vinaigres Honoring Contributors
It is important to reiterate that we humbly represent the sum of those who came before us in this world, those who inspired us, and that the concept of “self-made man” is well relative. If we see life like a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle, for instance, we get to assemble every piece in our own way, but the shapes and colours were presented to us by fellow human beings, each of them contributing to the big picture.
Partner Organizations
- SDE Région de Thetford
- SADC de l’Amiante
- MRC des Appalaches
- Ministère de l’Agriculture des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation du Québec La Financière Agricole du Québec
And more...
Many people we have met and spent time with have influenced this project’s progression, sometimes even without knowing it, through conversing and sharing ideas on the vision of the work on an orchard, the art of winemaking, entrepreneurship and more. We are certainly forgetting some of them, but here are a few that we think should be acknowledged in no particular order:
- Louise Marcotte et Paul Gilbert
- Simon Pelchat et Christiane Turcotte
- Tatiana Thorens
- Jean-Philippe Lefebvre – Groupe réZin Inc
- Eric Beaudoin – Groupe réZin Inc
- Loïc Chanut – Entre Pierre & Terre
- Géraud Bonnet et Naline Desrochers – Desrochers D
- Loïc Chanut – Entre Pierre & Terre
- Marc Blais – auteur et coach exécutif
- Dominic Jacques – chef – Rioux & Pettigrew
- Patrick Dubé – chef – Germain-Charlevoix
- Peter Franus – Peter Franus Wine Company
- Sean Thackrey – Thackrey and company
- Catherine Maisonneuve et Mathieu Cosse – Cosse-Maisonneuve Jean-Laurent Groulx – Stratus Wines
- Cyril et Nadia Bourgne – La Madura
Local Artisans
In the crafting of our products, we favour organic and eco-responsible raw materials that are carefully selected.
Cassis Monna & Filles
Les Délices du Domaine
We could not imagine making Québécois vinegar without creating one with a maple base, especially since we are located in the heart of a region that is renowned for its maple syrup production. So it is from certified organic maple syrup that we craft Les Voiles (maple balsamic vinegar aged in bourbon casks) as well as Rasemotte (maple vinegar with carrot, ginger and turmeric).
Josée Lavoie and Jérôme Gagnon operate a family-owned farm, which is located only a few kilometres from us and was established four generations ago.
Rucher des Basses Terres
We heard of Yvan L’Homme from Rucher des Basses Terres from a few chefs in the Québec City area as we were looking to source the best honeys we could find.
The fall-harvest honey used in the production of Courtepointe comes from an apiary located on the gently sloping hills of Bellechasse.
Floramiel
Gilles Bonneau, Martine Côté and their children are as united in their fine and flavourful honey production as in the family. Their apiaries are located in the northwest of Lotbinière county.
From them, we select honey varieties with distinct fruity flavours, usually harvested in summer after cherry trees, raspberry shrubs and more have blossomed. The one from Sainte-Croix’s apiary, with its fig and dried fruit notes, inspired a cuvée of balsamic vinegar made of honey and small northern fruits called Les Pléiades.
Miel Gardner
Julie Croteau and Alexandre Gardner settled in Saint-Norbert-d’Arthabaska, where the hills of the lower Appalachian Mountains meet the plain along the Saint Lawrence River, to create in 2007 their beekeeping enterprise, Miel Gardner.
We just love their delicious honey from buckwheat flowers, that is distinctive and rich in flavours of molasses, malt and spice with floral overtone. This honey gives the Nocturne vinegar its unique, complex and bold character.
Le Petit Mas
Ferme Louis-David Marcoux
Market gardener Louis-David practices chemical-free cultivation and raises free-run laying hens. He is our nearest neighbour and his land provides us with chokecherries as well as highbush cranberries to complete our harvest. We also source some of his flavourful carrots for our Rasemotte vinegar when our own harvest is insufficient.
