Bespoke Booze

Toronto bars and restaurants are collaborating with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers on custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions

- KATE DINGWALL

1. Grape Witches' Ontario House Geisy Guy

FROM PARADISE GRAPEVINE

For their house wines, the Grape Witches only had to go up the road to Paradise Grapevine’s urban winery. There’s a rosé, a white and a red, plus this hazy orange wine made with Geisenheim, a hybrid Ontario grape. The Geisy Guy is textural, floral and the colour of a Dundas West sunset. $15 a glass, $30 a bottle; grapewitches.com

2. Dreyfus’s Creer Beer Light Lager

FROM WILLIBALD FARM DISTILLERY

The French-ish bistro’s list of small-batch wines is tempting, but trust us: this light lager made in Ayr, Ontario, is thirst-quenching when paired with such indulgent plates as pommes dauphine and pâté. And the dude pictured on the can? That's Tom Creery, the restaurant's chef de cuisine, after whom the beer was named. $10, dreyfustoronto.com

3. Antler’s Cedar Gin

FROM NICKEL 9 DISTILLERY