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Cheese Menu
Served with a port and fig terrine, toasted walnuts, grapes, apples and toasted focaccia.
Two cheese plate $12.00 Three cheese plate $16.00
Beddis Blue - British Columbia - From Moonstruck on Saltspring Island, this semi-soft blue cheese is made from
Jersey cows. It is aged for 4-6 weeks. It is a delicious and intense blue cheese.
Riopelle (Unpasteurized) - Quebec - This is a bloomy rind, triple cream cheese made with cow’s milk. Swiss-Brown
cows feed on hay from the salt marshes of the islands. The single variety of cows (with low volume production and
high quality milk) and the salty grasses give the milk a distinctive flavour.
Tomme du Grosse-
Grosse-Ile (Unpasteurized) - Quebec - This cheese is a light cream coloured cheese with small air holes.
It provides full and rich dairy taste with a sharp edge. As above, the cows are fed on hay from salt marshes.
Tomme du Haut-
Haut-Richelieu - Quebec - This cheese is washed with a cultured brine solution every-other day for 4 to
6 weeks. If Canada has a specialty in fine cheeses it is washed rind cheeses. Fritz Kaiser, a Swiss cheese maker
moved his family to Canada– persuaded by the quality of the milk. His specialty is washed rind cheeses. He draws
on his cheese making knowledge from Switzerland.
Le Clos St-
St-Ambroise - Quebec - This cheese is a semi-soft cheese which is rind washed with St. Ambroise beer.
The fruity and nutty flavour is reminiscent of St-Ambroise beer.
Final Sips
Dessert Wine (by the glass – 2oz)
Wild Blackberry Dessert Wine, Starling Lane, Victoria, BC, 2006 $13 Churchill LBV Port, Portugal, 1999 $7
Sauternes, Chateau Armajan des Ormes, Sauternes, France, 2000 $14 Fonseca LBV Port, Portugal, 2000 $7.50
Quail’s Gate Select Late Harvest Optima, BC, 2003 $11.50 10 Year Old Tawny Port, Fonseca, Portugal $9
Riesling Ice Wine, Mission Hill Estate Winery, BC, 2003 $15 Vintage Port, Graham’s, Portugal, 1994 $25
Bradenburg No. 3, Venturi Schulze, BC, 2003 $15
Loose-
Loose-leaf Tea $5.00
China Jin Zhu Mao Jian Gyokuro Asahi from T Darjeeling Tea
from Whole World Trading A very refined Japanese tea. Only from Whole World Trading
Consists of top leaf and bud and makes a the most tender, top-most leaves Plucked at the higher elevations of
delicate, slightly peachy, fairly light white tea. are harvested, producing a pale the garden on the morning of the
green liquor with a smooth and Full Moon, June 3, 2004.
lingering taste.
Jasmine Pearl from T Green Kashmiri Darjeeling Russian Earl Grey from T
Fragrant leaves are rolled into a tight pearl, from Whole World Trading This Earl Grey uses the rind of
sealing in the scent of Jasmine. With whole leaf green tea, Kashmir the spicy Bergamot orange.
saffron and organic Ceylon spices.
Genmai Cha from T Osmanthus Flower Oolong from TDeep Green Embrace
Japan’s famous popcorn tea. Nutty flavour of Top-grade oolong tea from from Whole World Trading
toasted rice & barley combine with refreshing Formosa delicately scented with Peppermint, red raspberry leaf, wild
green tea. rare Osmanthus flowers. rose petals, lemon grass, cardamom,
clove and black pepper.