Tomato wine thriving in Canada

3rd August, 2012 by Lucy Shaw

Quebec-based farmer Pascal Miche is enjoying thriving sales of his Omerto tomato wine in Canada, crafted from a secret family recipe.

Omerto tomato wine

According to AFP, the former butcher has sold over 65,000 bottles of tomato wine since launching it onto the Canadian market two years ago.

Miche makes the wine from 6,200 tomato plants on his “vineyard” in Charlevoix, 400km northeast of Montreal.

“I wanted to finish what my great-grandfather had started in Belgium in the ’30s,” he told AFP.

Miche immigrated to Quebec from Belgium seven years ago and started planting red, yellow and black tomatoes in Charlevoix in 2009.

The crop set to ripen by mid-August will be his third harvest, with the journey from field to bottle taking around nine months.

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6 Responses to “Tomato wine thriving in Canada”

paul panna says:

August 10, 2012 at 6:15 pm

Where can I purchase these tomato wines??

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thody tim says:

September 22, 2013 at 11:30 am

Why not? Yu can make good « wine » out of almost any vegetable let alone fruit. He will be lucky to sell much of that at 25 CA for a glass and a half!

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James P Marquart says:

July 18, 2015 at 8:04 pm

Years ago I tasted some homemade tomato wine which was delicious. I would like to acquire a bottle of Omerto?!

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- Lynn says:
  
  January 18, 2019 at 7:48 pm
  
  Is it possible to purchase the tomato wines in UK please ?
  
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judywhytock says:

September 6, 2015 at 8:14 pm

In France they kill the little birds to make grape wine, because they eat the grapes.. Tomatoes are not so readily eaten by birds, therefore, tomato wine is a good thing. Also, wines made out of apples or plums are more environmentally friendly wines, especially in Canada, because we still have small birds. You don’t have to kill birds to grow apples and plums. Apple wine and plum wines are environmentally friendly because of this reason. Birds help nature because they eat insects. They are also beautiful.

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Gérard Gaspel says:

November 3, 2015 at 7:04 pm

Bonjour,
Je suis le GM pour XV Excluses, Inc.
Nous importons des wines du monde entier mais nous nous spécialisons sur les vins Canadian comme ICE Wine ou bien Vin d’érable et maintenant nous voudrions importer votre vin de tomate…
Nous distribuons National aux US.
Je suis Français et je pourrai vous introduire en France également
Gérard Gaspel
917-848-7887

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