Glenfiddich Explorers

Canada Visit-May 2010

By Ian

Last week I was in Canada and visited Ottawa, Toronto and Winnipeg, the latter being a first. Ottawa is a beautiful city and we enjoyed our visit there, also spent a couple of days in Toronto before flying out to Winnipeg,  known within Canada as Winterpeg, not sure why as the temperature here was way better than both Ottawa and Toronto, we had a couple of large tastings here, nice people, I look forward to going back.

One in six canadians has Scottish heritage so canada is always a very interesting and rewarding market to visit,  we were lucky enough to get on a couple of morning TV shows and recorded interviews with Gourmet TV and ITV, a show recorded in Winnipeg and then put out over the internet.

We also visited one of the smallest settlements in Manitoba for a fairly exclusive tasting, audience of three people and we only covered two whiskies, the fifteen, a favourite of mine and a vintage 42 year old which was exceptional, the family we visited were the Prociws and the village was called Sandilands, remote and surrounded  by vast stretches of forest, I tried a Ukrainian dish there called Peroggies, delicious and a first for me, to my hosts Ken and Joanne, thank you for dinner.

I finished the trip with a night out in Toronto with friends and colleagues, there`s nothing quite like chinese food at 4 AM.

Attached is a picture of me at the Sandilands signpost, a product consultant tasting in Winnipeg and the Toronto Skyline from my hotel.

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