Jeropiga and Port
ILHAVO
First I want to thank all of you for all the knowledge that I have
gained from
this newsgroup by lurking for about three years. Great questions (some
repetitive but from different folks) and excellent answers from the pros who
never
lost the keyword of making wine and transfered it to the other facets of their
life such as rec.crafts.winemaking and probably family. Keyword= PATIENCE
Last year I was in Portugal and indulged in a drink called jeropiga that
tasted
like port. I assumed that it was a cheap port from a non designate area
Yesterday, for curiosity, I looked up up the definition of jeropiga.
From a Portuguese dictionary on the Web
jeropiga=unfermented wine
My questions are.
1) is the dictionary wrong?
2) if is unfermented why is it called wine?
3) was the must fortified to 17.5% with alcohol and filtered?
Tony.
Greg Cook
"ILHAVO" <ilh...@aol.com> wrote:
I found the following in the Oxford Companion to Wine at the winepros.com.au
website.
jerepigo
Jerepigo or jerepiko, unfermented dessert `wines' in South Africa, the
Cape's version of vin doux naturel produced by adding alcohol before
fermentation to ripe, very sweet grape juice, usually Muscadel. Such
products are often labelled Muskadel or Muscadel Jerepigo. Usually about 17
per cent alcohol, often with intense ripe fig and muscat flavours, these
traditional, warming wines, popular in South African winters, probably
derive their name from the Portuguese term jeropiga.
jeropiga
Portuguese term for grape must prevented from fermenting by the addition of
spirit or aguardente. Jeropiga is often used to sweeten fortified wines.
(Vinho abafado on the other hand is partially fermented before spirit is
added; see Carcavelos.)
Hope this helps.
----Greg
prairi...@hotmail.com
ILHAVO
(ILHAVO) writes:
To all,
I did not intend to ask the same questions twice but AOL did not give
me
confirmation for this or that the previous post that went through.
Apologies from
Tony
ILHAVO
I have an empty bottle here and the back label does not call it a wine, instead
it names it as a " product of wine making".
Regards
Tony
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