🍷 Macvin du Jura
A drink from the Jura: grape juice blended with local grape brandy.
Macvin du Jura is a drink from the Jura region of eastern France. It is made from fresh grape juice mixed with local grape brandy. Such drinks are called mistelle.
The brandy is the one made from grape pomace, known as marc du Jura. Juice and brandy are mixed in set proportions, fermentation stops at once, and the natural sweetness stays in the drink. The drink is then aged in oak barrels. Its strength is around 16 to 22 percent.
Macvin comes white and red. The white is often made from Chardonnay and Savagnin, the red from Poulsard and Trousseau, local red grapes. It is drunk chilled as an aperitif and is also used in desserts.
Macvin is like other mistelles, for example Pineau des Charentes in the Charente. It is a local drink tied to French wine, from the Jura region and its wine area of the same name.
How it connects to Wine
🍷 Macvin du Jura → made in → 🗺️ French wine → kind of → 🗺️ Wines of Europe → kind of → 🍷 Wine
Links
- Part of
- 🍷 Mistelle
- Where it is made
- 🗺️ French wine
- Similar and different
- 🍷 Mistelle, 🍷 Vin jaune, 📜 Jura (Swiss canton)
Frequently asked questions
What is Macvin du Jura?
It is a drink of grape juice mixed with local grape brandy (marc) and aged in barrels.
What is mistelle?
A sweet drink in which the juice's fermentation is stopped by adding spirit. Macvin is one of them.
How is Macvin drunk?
Chilled, as an aperitif or with desserts.
What to read next
- 🗺️ French wine — The country's wine and winemaking: regions, grapes and appellations.
- 📜 Jura (Swiss canton) — The youngest wine canton, with small vineyards.
- 🍷 Vin jaune — A yellow dry wine from Jura that matures for years in a cask under a film of yeast.
Similar
🍷 Pineau des Charentes · 🍷 Floc de Gascogne · 🍷 Ratafia de Champagne · 🍷 Château-Chalon · 🍷 Grower Champagne · 🍷 Vin jaune
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