In 2017, the Newfoundland Distillery Company in Clarke’s Beach on Conception Bay began making gin to bridge the gap while their whisky matured. After a tenure as a chef in Ottawa cooking for high-profile names, Carter had returned to Newfoundland. His experience in the kitchen honed his approach to the culinary arts – making humble seasonal ingredients pop on the palate. Gin was already in his culinary DNA.
Read MoreCanada’s immense land area has produced a selection of gins that explore the thousands of flavours that grow coast to coast. For distilleries near the sea, this includes taking flavours from the temperamental oceans and taming those flavours into its gins.
Read MoreSoon, and for the first time ever, this will include Newfoundland Whisky. This past October, the Newfoundland Distillery Company began laying down barrels of triple-distilled whisky spirit made from Cormack-grown unmalted barley.
Read MoreConception Bay Newfoundland is home to Canada’s first English speaking colony and as the name suggests, is one of the most populous regions in the province. But, get your minds out of the gutter. It actually has a religious origin, referring to the feast of the Immaculate Conception.
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