Have you ever wondered why a standard bottle of wine or alcohol is 750 milliliters and not 1 liter ? It all dates back to the French Revolution. Commercial habits were revolutionized when the standardization of measurements was developed by adopting the metric system. However, if the liter became the unit of reference, wine bottles bypassed the reform. At that time, there were already very large vineyards…
In order to bring some transparency to the eyes of their consumers and partly because of a request from producers since some time ago, the SAQ has launched three categories for Quebec products. Here are the names of these categories and their official significance: “Origine Québec” (products made by Quebec artisans and with homegrown ingredients) “Prepared in Quebec” (products designed or distilled in Quebec with homegrown Quebec ingredients and…
Despite its young age, by its size, Canada is the second largest country in the world far behind Russia and just ahead of China. During the First World War, under the pressure of temperance advocates of religious origins, most of the Canadian Provinces introduced legislation to prohibit the sale and consumption of intoxicating liquors : the famous prohibition! This ended in 1925 with many paradoxes, the Federal…