What to drink: Three picnic-perfect piquettes
What to drink: Three picnic-perfect piquettes
A light effervescent taste and low alcohol make piquette a fun option for day drinking By Kelsey Adams
Apr 27, 2021
Piquette might be made from the dregs of wine pressings, but it’s a punchy, fresh and totally crushable drink in its own right. After grapes are pressed for winemaking, the skins are usually discarded. Making piquettes lets wineries re-use the pomace and get another product out of a batch of grapes. It’s also less alcoholic than wine, which is why it was traditionally given to French vineyard workers as a pick-me-up during breaks from gruelling work. Many winemaking regions make local versions: in Italy it’s known as acqua pazza and the first instances of its existence were discovered in ancient Greece and Rome.
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Toronto, ON-based vegan sommeliers The Social Herbivore have launched a Red, White & Green Holiday Gift Bundle. The bundle features a hand-picked selection of local vegan wine and snacks, including bottles of red and white wines from Leaning Post Wines, a cranberry/rosemary vegan Havarti cheese and lox-style cream cheese from Wandering Deli, and vegan salami, mushroom and walnut pate, carrot lox, and mulled wine chutney from Sausage Party Toronto. The selection comes in a reusable ice bucket and is gift-wrapped in eco-friendly packaging. Plus, $5 from every purchase will go to support the Toronto Vegetarian Food Bank.
Founders Priya Rao and Jen Huether Canada’s first female master sommelier launched The Social Herbivore with the mission of demonstrating that the vegan lifestyle can be fun. “Priya and I met when I co-hosted a dinner at Planta featuring vegan food paired with wines just over two years ago,” Huether told VegNews. “We saw a gap in the wine world when i