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Wine from tomatoes: An old idea comes to new fame

It is usually ketchup when tomatoes come out of the bottle and also from the North American continent. Not so with Omerto - a Canadian special wine made from: tomatoes!

Pascal Miche, a wine expert and tomato farmer from nearby Quebec, dug an old recipe from his great-grandfather. As early as 1938, he successfully processed part of his tomato harvest into wine. A particularly good and sun-ripened tomato vintage made him come up with this unusual idea. The result of years of trying: an excellent droplet with around 16 percent alcohol. The tomato wine was born. But it took a few more generations for the great-grandson to bring the old recipe to new fame: Arrived in Quebec, Pascal fiddled until he had invented a marketable quality product ten years later. Now it is also available in the international market. His tomato vineyard today is home to more than 5,000 plants, which bring him 34,000 bottles of tomato wine.

Thus Pascal Miche is according to own data the only supplier of tomato wine world-wide. To date, he has modified the secret recipe a little, because in the past only one type of tomato was used. Equipped with the tinkerer gene of his ancestors, the studied oenologist and sommelier initially experimented with sixteen different tomato varieties. This resulted in the emergence of two products over time, containing six different varieties combinations. The "dry" tomato wine with intense and peppery aroma, and the "sweet" with fruity and floral aromas. A taste experience that goes far beyond what you would expect from tomatoes from the bottle. Friederike Heidenhof, bzfe