FOOD NEWS
Tomato Wine Is An Actual Thing, But It's Not What You'd Expect
By Jessica Fleming-Montoya
Like grape wine, tomato wine is made by fermenting the fruit into an alcoholic beverage. It's quite high in alcohol content, with some bottles containing up to 16% alcohol.
Although tomato wine sounds like it would taste like an alcoholic version of tomato juice, it's actually reported to have a sweet taste with notes of fruit and baking spices.
Tomato wine is light in color and clear, resembling a Chardonnay or other white wines. The skin of the tomato doesn't contain coloring agents, so the wine turns out light in color.
Tomato wine dates back to a family recipe from 1938, but it wasn't until Pascale Miche set up a vineyard in Quebec in the 1990s that they dedicated themselves to the trade.
They named the vineyard Omerto and currently grow six kinds of tomatoes and bottle four types of wine — Omerto Sec, Omerto Moelleux, Omerto Barique Cerisier, and Omerto Acacia.