Vin cuit de Provence

Vin cuit de Provence

Vin cuit de Provence ( cooked wine of Provence ), also called Vin cuit for short , is a dessert wine from France . It is a specialty of Provence and is made from grape must that has been thickened by heating . It is traditionally enjoyed with desserts at Christmas .

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The drink owes its name "cooked wine" to the heating of the must during its production. So it is not a hot drink like mulled wine, for example .

The Provencal drink is not to be confused with a product from western Switzerland, also called vin cuit, which, however, is a thick fruit juice concentrate such as apple or pear cabbage .

A similar product to the Provencal vin cuit is the Italian vino cotto .

Manufacturing

To make vin cuit, freshly pressed grape must is heated for a long time without it boiling. Traditionally, it is heated in a copper kettle over an open wood fire.

The grape juice is concentrated until it has lost about a third of its volume and becomes syrupy. It is then fermented in barrels.

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Vin cuit is a sweet wine that is mainly drunk as a dessert wine . It usually has an alcohol content of around 14 to 15 percent by volume .

Because the sweetness was achieved by artificially increasing the sugar content through cooking, the vin cuit is called " vin doux artisanal " (artificial sweet wine) in France , in contrast to the " vin doux naturel " (natural sweet wine, corresponds to Germans the liqueur wine ), in which the fermentation of unthickened grape must is stopped by the addition of high-percentage drinking alcohol and thus much of the natural, original sweetness of the grape is retained in the wine.

The vin cuit is traditionally drunk in December, especially at Christmas time . It is also served with the traditional Christmas dessert of Treize desserts .

Vintners from Provence who have revived the production of vin cuit are trying to obtain AOC certification .

Web links

Commons : Vin cuit de Provence  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• A la découverte du Vin Cuit de Provence . In: Le Guide Vins de Provence.
• Kilien Stengel: Vin Cuit de Noel et Chaudron . In: Gastronomiquement vôtre! , December 29, 2008.
• Vins cuits de Provence, une tradition revisitée ( Memento of August 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• Vin cuit de Provence, la famille Negrel perpétue l'heritage de Noël. In: LE GRAND PASTIS. November 23, 2017, accessed November 30, 2019 (French). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vin cuit de Provence, la famille Negrel perpétue l'heritage de Noël. In: LE GRAND PASTIS. November 23, 2017, accessed November 30, 2019 (French).