Quebec distilleries: local gin is worth the trip (and here’s where to taste it)

Discover an art and a passion. This company makes high-quality spirits, with a particular eye for the details that produce an authentic flavour. A lot of work goes into ensuring every bottle reflects the business’ personality, local products and city. Come discover a distillery with a unique distillation process!

Since 2013, this distillery located in Montréal’s Rosemont neighbourhood has been producing spirits, liqueurs and ready-to-drink cocktails that are renowned for their quality and authenticity. Distilled in Charentais stills, the products reflect the distillery’s artisanal spirit and pioneering expertise.

Resulting from urban agriculture, this business brings together a honey house, a meadery, a distillery and a sales and tasting area under the same roof. You are invited to an agritourism experience from flower to flavour in the heart of downtown City of Québec.

Distillerie Arsenal & Co. welcomes you in a grand and warm setting, in the heart of an iconic heritage building of Quebec. Once a munitions factory, the Arsenal now houses artisanal craftsmanship where history meets innovation.
During your visit, discover our production methods for gin, rum, and whisky, participate in cocktail creation workshops, and dive into the unique history of this place transformed into a lively and friendly distillery.

This distillery provides an immersive experience in three stages: first, an escape game, and then, discover the secrets of making spirits and end with a tasting session. Mixology workshops are also offered on Wednesdays!

Aliksir… this Arabic word means essence, the very nature of something. Explore the world of aromatherapy and the extraction of essential oils. Discover processes and traditional manufacturing methods born of thousands of years of experimentation. Then, pamper yourself by taking with you one of these little containers of therapeutic properties!

A must when you arrive on île d’Orléans! The Monna family cultivates blackcurrants and produces international award-winning liquors as well as a selection of treats made from their berries. In the summer, check out the artisanal dairy bar and restaurant to discover the many ways to cook with blackcurrants!

This distillery was founded by three childhood friends determined to create spirits that are both authentic and daring by adding a hint of whimsy and a modern twist to traditional know-how. Come and take a tour, see how the spirits are made and taste all the products.

This cider house and distillery offers a range of ciders and spirits, made entirely on the property using fruit picked from its own orchards. Sells ice, sparkling and rosé ciders, as well as apple vermouth, gin and brandy. Commented tastings available only for groups (reservations required).

Distillers of exceptional spirits that express the flavors of the terroir while respecting the environment.

Discover the art of distilling fine spirits, from grain growing to bottling. An educational and entertaining agritourism experience that culminates in a product tasting.

Pick-your-own and tasting Picnic area, mini-farmhouse, shop offering butcher’s meat and fine products, playground and magnificent terrace.

Domaine Small is a vineyard, distillery and maple grove that has been managed organically for 20 years. From our vineyard: white, red, rosé, orange and fortified wines, table grapes and verjuice. At the distillery: Acerums, gin, vodka, etc. and from our maple grove: maple and birch products.

Discover the Ungava Spirits micro-distillery boutique, a leading Canadian producer of premium-quality craft spirits made with the highest quality of natural and local ingredients, and winner of numerous awards around the world. On-site tasting of iconic spirits produced at the distillery such as Ungava gin, Chic Choc rum, Coureur des bois cream and maple whiskey and Quartz vodka. Cocktail ideas and products available in store.

We seek to create superior quality spirits, developed with respect for the process, the consumer and tradition. Our tasting bar with a view on the production area will allow you to discover the world of distillation.

This family-run absinthe manufacturer set in Granby, in the Eastern Townships, is the fruit of extensive effort. Offers small-batch products distilled slowly and with care, using locally grown, hand-harvested plants. Guided tours available upon reservation.

A unique place where passion meets local ingredients, creating a whole range of incredible flavours! The mission: to develop and offer spirits distilled on site while highlighting Québec’s natural bounty, and especially Shefford’s.

Établie dans l’ancienne église Saint-Luke, cette distillerie vous charmera avec son architecture d’antan évoquant ses 150 ans d’histoire. Apprenez-en davantage sur la conception et la fabrication des spiritueux et venez découvrir les gins et les vodkas offerts sur place à la boutique.

Local spirits, a creative cocktail bar and an eco-museum to discover in Chelsea.

The distillery offers an inviting environment that unveils a purely imaginative universe abounding in a variety of high-quality products that are rich in flavours and colours, and accessible to all. Come discover the distillery and its new way of thinking and crafting.

A new whisky production and ageing unit, reception and catering areas, guided tours and tastings: everything is designed to help visitors discover the fascinating world of spirits and the rich commercial and industrial history of Trois-Rivières.

Distillery inspired by Quebec and Europe. Our passion: aging whisky. Our achievements: La Baraque, Le Caribou des bois, L’Élixsir des bois, If Gin and Mushrooms Gin. We are a Quebec family business (Lefebvre) partnered with a French family (Mordac).

The first distillery in Trois-Rivières. Following an artisanal tradition, they produce authentic regional spirits, including a gin featuring local flavours (made with wintergreen leaves and red clover flowers).

This distillery in Sainte-Angèle-de-Laval offers an interactive guided tour of its facilities that explains the manufacturing process of its products and the aromatic botanicals used. A tasting session is available.

These beekeepers offer you quality products crafted with love from their pure honeys bursting with flavour. It is one of the few distilleries that makes alcohol, from bee to bottle, using honey from its own beehives.

This distillery and brewery in the city of Clermont showcases the richness of the region by producing fine spirits and refined beers. In an effort to revive the artisanal tradition of brewing and distilling, it creates its own spirits from grain to bottle and brews in the bière de garde style.

Domaine le Cageot is the first and only one in Saguenay! Come discover and taste our berry-based products (wild blueberries, raspberries, grapes and blackcurrants) including our wines, aperitifs, digestives, sparkling wines, spirits (brandies, gin), wine vinaigrettes, jams, spreads and Much more. We have been accumulating medals and international tributes since our founding in 1977!

Welcome to the world of Saguenay’Lac-Saint-Jean’s very first distillery. Inspired by its surroundings, it produces unique spirits that use artisanal techniques and reflect the region’s abundant boreal forest. A family business, this company is proud to share its ambitious project with you.

Vallier Robert has developed a unique know-how. He ferments maple sap to obtain fine white wines, sparkling wines, an aperitif and a digestif. The organic maple grove offers a guided tour, cellar-cocktail package, commented tasting, wines by the glass, snacks on the terrace, shop, marked trail and picnic area.

Distillery between the sea and mountains, which set up shop in the old church of the small village of Rivière-à-Claude, in Haute-Gaspésie.

This distillery specializes in craft spirits and produces a gin made with 14 local aromatics. Housed in a solid timber building with a view of the sea, the distillery offers guided tours of its facilities, including a Charentais still, shop and tasting space.

This family business invites you to tour its fields and distillery, including the raspberry harvester. Your visit ends with a chance to sample the wares. We are now an economuseum. Guided tours daily. The whole family awaits to give you a warm welcome!

Immerse yourself in the world of distilled spirits at this distillery built specifically for producing rum and gin. An easy stop as you start your journey through Gaspésie. Tastings and guided tours available and products sold on site. Plus, you can relax on a rooftop bar terrace.

This small organic family orchard produces unique ciders such as the Poméloi (apple in a bottle), as well as distillery products (gins and brandy) made with a traditional Charentais still. A fruit business proud to be one of the few that does everything’from growing to bottling.

First distillery in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, offering a gin and a vodka available on site and at SAQ outlets all over Québec.