Macvin du Jura ✦

Macvin du Jura

What it is

Macvin is the only French appellation whose mistelle is muted with marc — oak-aged pomace brandy — rather than with a wine brandy, and the name carries it: mac, for marc. Recognised in 1991, it is the youngest of the Jura appellations and the one that tastes least like wine, all pressed skins and warm spice.

In the kitchen

A spoonful stirred into a cream sauce off the heat gives a spice note no wine reduction produces; cook it hard and the marc turns to fusel. In the Jura it is poured over aged Comté, and the salt of the cheese is what makes the sweetness readable.

Goes with

Comté Walnut Cream Morel Pear Chestnut

Same species

Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale DOP Amontillado Armagnac Banyuls Brandy de Jerez Champagne vinegar

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