LCBO Food and Drink Winter 2016

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SMALL-BATCH VODKA

Publication Coordinator Leslie Virdo first heard about Rheault Distillery’s Loon Vodka ( LCBO 374728, $45.45) from a coworker and was instantly intrigued. “I was excited to hear about a distillery in Northern Ontario,” she says. The artisanal distillery’s quadruple-distilled small-batch vodka is made with locally grown wheat and water from the James Bay lowlands and has received a number of awards,

including a double gold medal at the 2015 China Wine & Spirit Awards. Serve this premium spirit chilled as a digestif after dinner (as you would a grappa) or pour a couple of ounces over ice with a lemon or lime wedge. “I wasn’t one to drink vodka straight up in the past,” Leslie says. “But after tasting Loon, I’m a convert.” “I ALWAYS LOOK FORWARD to working on our winter issue,” Leslie says—and not just because its size is more manageable after the always-thick holiday edi- tion. “It always delivers hearty, warming recipes that help me deal with the cold weather.”

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