Au Rebours

Marianne Ackerman

Chapter Chapter 5 in Wine, Society, and Globalization, 2007, pp 87-98 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The first mention of wine in Quebec dates from the journals of the French explorer Jacques Cartier, who in 1535 discovered wild grapes growing abundantly on an island at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. Impressed by the vista of a sprawling, savage vineyard, he named the island l’ile du Bacchus, subsequently changed to l’ile d’Orleans. A few decades later, Jesuits missionaries, lacking altar wine, embarked on the toil of fermenting wild grapes.1 In 1877, “Beaconsfield,” the first commercial wine farm, was established at Pointe-Clare, and by the late 1880s an estimated one hundred acres of vines were under cultivation.2 Nevertheless, most wine was, from the start, imported. In 1739, for example, New France imported the equivalent of 775,166 bottles from France and Spain, for an adult population of 24,260—the equivalent of thirty-two liters each per year.3

Keywords: North American Free Trade Agreement; Sparkling Wine; State Monopoly; Wild Grape; Table Wine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230609907_5

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