Mechitharine

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Mechitharine ("monastery liqueur Mechitharine") is a herbal liqueur with 30 vol .-% , which has been made from fruits, herbs, roots and spices by the Armenian Catholic Mechitarists since 1701 . It has been produced in Vienna in the Mechitarist monastery there since 1811 and has been available in stores since 1889. The recipe is no longer known after the death of one monk and dementia another.

history

Mechitharine was already described in an Armenian manuscript in 1680 . This recipe was discovered by priests of the Mechitarist Congregation founded in Constantinople in 1701 and has been practiced ever since. They left Constantinople in 1703. That is why the liqueur was produced by the Mechitarists from 1703 to 1715 in Modon (Greece), from 1715 to 1773 in Venice , from 1773 to 1810 in Trieste . It has been made in Vienna since 1811. The various production sites reflect the history of division and expulsion of the Mechitarist Congregation, which initially had to leave Modon due to the Venetian-Austrian Turkish War that broke out in 1714 and move to the small island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni near Venice. From 1773 it was then produced in Trieste after part of the congregation split up there. After Trieste was occupied by French troops in the Third Coalition War , the congregation had to flee to Vienna in 1805 and was not able to resume liqueur production there until 1811.

properties

Mechitharine is a yellow, herbal-fruity-tasting liqueur made from 43 herbs and 12 fruits, which is made from natural ingredients without essences or synthetic flavors or additives and with 30 % by volume in the flavors "noble sweet", "sweet", "semi-bitter" , "Bitter", "Edelbitter" and "Cordiale" are offered. The annual production volume is 3000 liters. The place of manufacture is the Mechitarist monastery in Vienna. The monastery liqueur has received more than 30 gold medals and many silver and bronze medals and certificates of honor at international trade fairs.

literature

  • Mari Kristin Arat: Die Wiener Mechitharisten: Armenian Monks in the Diaspora, 1990 (Section 8.2. The herb liqueur, p. 172) Google extract

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The forgotten formula
  2. ↑ Birgit Schwaner: A visit to the Viennese Mechitharists - keepers of tradition and books; in: MASIS.at: Mechitarist Congregation (Sebouh Baghdoyan, December 2005)
  3. ↑ a b c Mechitharine ( memento from November 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved June 19, 2017.
  4. ^ Archdiocese of Vienna 200 years of mechitharists in Vienna . In: "APA.ots", January 26, 2011. Retrieved June 19, 2017.
  5. ↑ THE MECHITARIST CONGREGATION . In: "MASIS.at", December 2015. Retrieved on June 19, 2017.
  6. ↑ Tom Vartabedian Let's Enjoy a Vibrant Drink on Me . In: “TheArmenianWeekly”, January 28, 2016. Retrieved June 19, 2017.
  7. ↑ Masis.at: Mechitharine (prices) Retrieved on June 19, 2017.

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