Ice cidre"Clos Saragnat" at chocolat&Cie

Friday afternoon, I received a letter from Loise who owns her winery in Frelighsburg, Quebec. (maybe 2h drive from Montreal) they gave me and my friend's Mari , tickets for
" Salon Passion Chocolat & Cie " in old Montreal. It was such a nice surprise gift for us.

I met her and her husband Christian when Mariko, I and my best friend Kanako from Tokyo visited their winery this September. (Will write their winery next time!)
They have a passion to produce their ORGANIC apple cider wine, wine everything their by hands.
http://www.saragnat.com/french.html


They had a booth " Salon Passion Chocolat & Cie "Sweets Expo at Marche Bonsecour over the weekend.
http://www.salonpassionchocolat.com

Mariko and I went to see them and we had a coffee together and had very nice and profound talk.
Louise and Christian, both of them are just so nice who have strong belief and passion. Both of them have such a strong will.

We were just a small customer who visited their winery and purchase a couple of bottles but we asked(especially Kanako and Mariko) so many questions and we found how fascinating how they produce their wines and we really moved their passion.

When we came back to Montreal, I wrote her an email to say Thank you . Louise gave me a call and we communicated each other a couple of times. It is very interested that we have nothing common a part from having passion for something, believe something what we do.(of course I LOVE good wine..the most important part)

I was really appreciate it I could meet them and share passion.

Salon Passion Chocolat & Cie is the first chocolate show in the Canada and I never knew there are quite a lots of GOOD chocolatier here. their apple wine are goes well with chocolat.

Christian and Louise were chosen the dinner with prince Charles(only 84people were invited from all of Canada) last week when Prince Charles was here in Canada.
They were recognized　their philosophy and Christian was the first person who produced apple wine cider in Canada and it's important for Canadian culture.

They are totally inspired me how we need to believe what we were doing and challenging spirit.

It was a very nice Sat afternoon we had.