Malaga wine

Málaga vineyard near Cútar

Back label of a wine bottle with the indication of origin DO Málaga

The Malaga wine (Spanish Malaga ) is a traditional sweet wine from Andalusia, which is produced in the southern Spanish province of Malaga , was famous in Roman antiquity and is one of the oldest documented types of wine. The grapes grow in the mountains north and east of the city of Málaga in the DO Málaga wine-growing region . The winemaking must take place in a bodega in the city of Malaga. It then has the DO Málaga seal of approval and is assigned to the category of liqueur wines . It partly gets its alcohol content by blowing it up . The highest quality variant is Lágrima (Eng. "Tear"), which is made from the juice that comes out of the grapes without being pressed by its own weight (first run must). Like sherry , Málaga is aged in soleras in oak barrels of various sizes .

variants

There are a total of 16 different types of wine between dry and sweet and an alcohol content of 15 to 22 percent, including Dulce Color, Moscatel, Moscatel natural and Lágrima . Not all wines are sweetened by spraying them on, some are sweetened by adding arrope , boiled down grape must. In addition, the original traditional method is occasionally used, in which the grapes are dried in the sun for up to 20 days in order to concentrate their natural sugar content. The white will be exclusively in the manufacture grapes of the varieties Muscatel and Pedro Ximénez used. Viticulture has a long tradition in the province of Málaga; in the La Axarquía region, wine has been made from grapes dried in the sun since the Iberian era . The height of its fame and production of the Malaga experienced in the 19th century.

Use in the kitchen

Italian dessert: vanilla ice cream with raisins and sultanas pickled in Malaga wine

In addition to being used as a drink, Malaga wine is mainly used in Italian cuisine as a marinade for veal or to refine desserts . There is also an Italian type of ice cream called " Malaga ", which is originally made with raisins pickled in Malaga wine .

literature

• Jan Read: Spain's Wines 2005/06 . 7th edition. Hallwag Verlag Munich, ISBN 3-7742-6962-9 .
• John Radford: The New Spain . 1st edition. Mitchell Beazley, ISBN 1-84000-928-4 .
• John Radford: Wine Landscape Spain . Hallwag Verlag, Bern / Stuttgart, ISBN 3-444-10553-3 .
• Jeremy Watson: The New & Classical wines of Spain . 1st edition. Montagud Editores Barcelona, ISBN 84-7212-087-2 .
• Jancis Robinson (Ed.): The Oxford Wine Lexicon . Hallwag, Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-8338-0691-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jan Read: Spain's Wines 2003/04 . 6th edition. Hallwag, Munich 2003, p. 100 f.
2. ↑ Jancis Robinson: The Oxford Wine Lexicon . Hallwag Verlag, Munich 2003, p. 446, ISBN 3-7742-0914-6 .