So, yes I am writing an article on ice cream at the end of October and so ? I do what I want after all !
A blog reader - that I thank - sent me on Facebook an article written on lafdv.fr and which echoes other older sources like the Demotivateur.fr. For those who don't know, La Feuille de Vigne is a fairly well-known wine news site.
Do not go ! I will show you that it is better to stop reading this sheet vineyard de chou…
I will not go back to the fact that the article in 29/10/2015 is available from 27 — Marty McFly, it's you ? — but rather on the information that is covered in this article.
According to the author of this article, Hillary Clinton is believed to have been the source of the design of the one and only ice cream marketed with wine. At the Farm Day exhibit in Washington, the senator had put winegrowers near ice cream producers. Some of the guests pouring some wine into Mercer’s ice cream would have loved the mix. The employees of this company then racked their brains to produce and market in 2008 the first pots.
Wine ice cream Mercer’s Dairy
Today, eight wine ice creams exist and are sold in the United States :
- Peach and White Zinfandel
- Strawberry and Sparkling — the manufacturer uses the word Champagne but I doubt its Champagne origin —
- Raspberry Chardonnay
- Riesling
- Cherry and Merlot
- Chocolate and Cabernet
- Porto
- Spices
Is it really the only wine ice maker ?
Except that here, there is another wine ice cream maker and he is French…
Alain Martinez, former Parisian glacier and now located in the Var, has developed with a friend a recipe to transform rosé wine into sorbet. According to our dear Varois “In the South, we always slip several ice cubes into our glasses of rosé. The idea then came to us to create a sorbet altogether. This did not exist in France ". This is how the company was born LichBitSun, who sells his product to a few restaurants by the sea and supermarkets in the region. A restaurant owner from Fréjus has even changed his menu so that the wine ice cream is not just a simple dessert : " Me, I accompany my fish or salmon tartare dishes with a scoop of rosé ice cream. Customers are surprised, but appreciate ".
Pendant 6 months, they tested the different ice creams developed by Alain. It is ultimately a sample containing all the same 5 % of alcohol that was unanimous. In their project, the two entrepreneurs benefited from the support of students from the region who promoted LichBitSun on social media and imagined the brand's design.
This just goes to show that we can say a big thank you to the La Feuille de Vigne website and to its "editor" Julie.
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