Top Honors for Ripplecove Inn & Spa.

Ayer’s Cliff, November 9th, 2007
The prestigious “Resto Voir Guide”, edition 2008 has recently awarded Ripplecove Inn its highest rating of 5 Stars for its outstanding cuisine. This makes Ripplecove the only hotel / inn in the Eastern Townships to receive this coveted award!

In the same season, Ripplecove’s wine cellar directed by sommelier, Patrick Jackson, received the “Carte d’Or 2007” for excellence in the category of wine cellars with more than 250 labels. This rare award is given to only the finest wine cellars in Quebec by “Le Collège des Ambassadeurs du vin au Québec.” If this wasn’t enough, North America’s most reputable wine magazine, “The Wine Spectator.” also awarded Ripplecove Inn with the “Best of Award of Excellence” for an outstanding wine cellar rated as “one of the finest restaurant wine cellars in the world!”

The awards kept on coming with, for the seventh consecutive year, a highest possible rating of “5 Stars” from the Quebec Minister of Tourism and two 4 Diamond awards by the Canadian Automobile Association for outstanding cuisine, service and accommodations.

These prestigious honors confirm once again Ripplecove’s rock solid reputation as a world class international tourist destination and one of Canada’s finest country Inns for over 64 years.

Two five-star inns on Quebec’s beautiful Lake Massawippi launch joint biking package

Auberge Ripplecove & Spa and Manoir Hovey, two Five-Star inns located on the shores of Lake Massawippi, just over 1 hour Southeast of Montréal and 20 minutes from the Vermont border are launching a joint biking package this May. The inn-to-inn package consists of a four-night stay, (two nights at each property), allowing guests to bike their way across the Eastern Townships, unearthing beautiful valleys and towns teeming with Anglo-Saxon charm. Each day, the Inns’ chefs will prepare a gourmet lunch of local delicacies, which will be packed in an insulated picnic backpack – a gift included in the package price. By night, guests will enjoy guilt-free gourmet dining at the inns’ beautiful dining rooms, both of which overlook opposite ends of sparkling Lake Massawippi. After two nights at the first inn, guests will leisurely bike their way to the second inn through beautiful back roads while their car and luggage are transported by qualified valets to the next Inn prior to their arrival.

Rates for the package start at Can$ 455 per person plus taxes in double occupancy for a standard room and include not only the gourmet dinners, picnic lunches and backpack but also full country breakfasts, all gratuities, trail maps and free use of the inns’ fleet of bicycles. Both Auberge Ripplecove & Spa and Manoir Hovey have won countless accolades over the years, including Wine Spectator's Best of Award of Excellence, 4 Diamonds from the CAA for both lodging and dining, and top marks in the Debeur and Voir restaurant guides. Please do not hesitate to contact us for more information at 1-800-668-4296 or e-mail at: info@ripplecove.com

The delicious creations prepared by Ripplecove Inn's Chef and First Cook were a big hit at the Toronto Home and Country Show this past October 27-30. The Inn served over a thousand canapés from its tasting table during the opening night fundraising gala benefiting the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation. With over one thousand attendees, including many food connoisseurs, the Chef’s tantalizing creations (Ripplecove’s famous sushi, Wrap of Brome Lake duck confit and vegetables, St. Benoit Abby Blue Cheese mousse on toast and Smoked Eastern Townships brook trout with pickled ginger compote), were snapped up in record time.

The next day, the Chef wowed the crowds with his award-winning cooking technique, and two lucky attendees were picked from the audience and served his incredible Black Chilean Sea Bass.

Wippi Lives!

Ripplecove Inn was featured in the news for something other than its fine dining
and accommodations recently when a tourist photographed a large creature swimming in Lake Massawippi from the Inn’s wharf. The tourist said the creature, which floated on top of the water like a crocodile or large snake, was about 10 feet long and stuck its head out of the water for several minutes.

Locals have long talked about a large aquatic beast they’ve name Wippi that inhabits the lake, and several claim to have seen it themselves. Massawippi is the third lake in the area with its own “monster.” Lake Champlain to the south has its “Champ” while nearby Memphremagog is home to “Memphre.” Scientists say that some very large fish inhabit some of the area’s lakes. Like Scotland’s famous Loch Ness, Lake Massawippi is very deep, over 500 feet in some parts.

Is Wippi a real lake monster? Visit Ripplecove Inn to see the famous photograph of Wippi and decide for yourself.

Ripplecove Inn wins coveted Wine Spectator Award

Ripplecove Inn now boasts over 500 kinds of wine and has an increasingly high representation of the new and much improved Canadian wines from across the country. Global warming has its advantages!

Click here for a sample of the Inn’s wine cellar offerings: http://www.ripplecove.com/dining.html