Tomato wine

Tomato wine

We were not mistaken in the title: it is the wine of tomatoes that is brewed today in the Charlevoix region, in Domaine de la Vallee du Brasque. To learn all about the production of this amazing wine, you must go to Belgium in the distant 1938. It was then that the amazing idea of ​​producing wine from ripe tomatoes came to the mind of Pascal Miche's great-grandfather.

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 1. Pascal Miche, a former butcher who immigrated to Canada from Belgium, said his tomato product was the first such wine to be commercially successful. After he launched his project three years ago, he sold 34,000 bottles a year.

The Canadian took advantage of his great-grandfather's family recipe, which has been kept secret for four generations.

2. The winemaker is enthusiastic about his job, choosing tomatoes with the same care that winemakers pick grapes from. Tomatoes then go through the same stages as kneading, soaking, fermenting and pressing. It produces two types of wine: dry and velvet, which can be compared with the sweet Pinot de Charentes.

3. However, in order for Misha to call the product wine, he needs to convince the authorities that the tomato is a fruit. This incidentally is confirmed by science. From a botanical perspective, a tomato is a fruit, chiefly because it contains plant seeds. However, its use in cooking has led many to consider it a vegetable.

4. Misha tested 16 tomato varieties to select six that grew well at cooler temperatures and the height of Quebec, where he grows them.

5. . Inside his wine, known as Omerto, he utilizes subarctic, yellow, and black cherry tomatoes because of their taste and yield.

The process of turning a tomato into a wine takes about 9 months. The unusual wine looks and smells nothing like tomatoes, and looks like a clear white wine with 18 percent alcohol content.

6. Those who have tasted the wine describe its taste as “a fruity taste, a little spicy, slightly honey-sweet,” which goes well with desserts and spicy foods.

Omerto wine is now sold for $ 25 per bottle of 375 ml, and can only be found in a few Quebec and Manitoba stores. The winemaker himself is going to expand sales in the United States, France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

7. Tomato wine recipe (source - net)

Structure:

4 kg of tomatoes
1.2 l of boiling water a
pinch of salt
4 cups of sugar
1 tbsp. yeast
juice 2 lemons

After washing the tomatoes, then chop, sprinkle with salt. Then pour boiling water and squeeze the oppression. In this form, hold 3-4 days, then filter. Add sugar, yeast and lemon juice. We put in a warm dark place for fermentation, not forgetting to follow this process. When the bubbles ceased to stand out, mix. Then we leave alone for 3-4 days to let the sediment settle. After filtering through several layers of gauze and pour into the barrel. We seal it and put it for six months in a cool dark place.

Finally, bottled, corked and cleaned for several months.

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