The Québec invents the tomato wine
Pubblished bykageja
A family of Canadian growers has had an original idea: to invent the wine to the tomato. The recipe promises to make soon the turn of the world. It deals with a secret of family: the recipe for the wine to the tomato has been developed by chance by the great-grandfather of Pascal Miche, ex butcher what time he sells 34.000 bottles a year of this wine that is born among the mountains of Charlevoix Québec.
Any vine but a very small field of tomatoes carefully selected by the owner, a man on the about forty been born in Belgium and resident in Québec from seven years. Miche Pascal, that in past he has been a butcher, he has said that he has always had in mind the idea to make to become the invention of his grandfather, from which was grown in Belgium a business. "I wanted to end what my great-grandfather had begun in the thirties", he has declared inspecting one of his 6.200 plants of tomato, that should reach the half maturity August.
Miche "he spoils" his tomatoes as they were grapes and it makes them object of similar treatment: pressing, wine making, maceration and squeezing out. Pascal speaks as a producer of wine Beaujolais and describes his two products: a dry wine and another softer as a Pineau des Charentes or a white Chardonnay. To call "wine" his elixir, Pascal Miche has had to show to the local authorities that the tomato is a fruit before: "I have returned to the XV century to trace the different varieties of tomatoes", he explains him.
Miche sixteen kinds of tomatoes have made a will then for maintaining only you are her that is adapted better to the extreme climate of Quebec and the altitude. From the field to the bottle, around nine months are needed because the tomato turns him into a wine gilded by the 18% alcoholic gradation. Anybody trace of the tomato in the final product, not even a taste. The sommelier Elen Garon, of the new hotel-restaurant to the fashion You Firm to Bay-Saint-Paul, he is fighting for defining the product as the greatest part of his homologous: for now he has found "notes of fruit, a spicy side and sweet spice."
