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Sally's Verjuice

Sally's Verjuice

RRP: $16.00

Verjuice is a versatile culinary ingredient. It’s a milder acidulant than vinegar, and it it’s ideal for deglazing, poaching and vinaigrettes.

Sally’s verjuice is made from under ripe pinot noir and shiraz grapes from the Paringa Estate home vineyard, as they’re not fermented, it doesn’t contain alcohol.

The Paringa chefs use it in many of their dishes. See below for his verjuice and viognier jelly recipe. To make a vinaigrette with it, mix three parts oil, with one part verjuice.

As acid heightens flavour, verjuice adds another dimension to cocktails. It’s also delicious poured over some ice with sparkling mineral water.

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More about this wine

Vintage & Winery Notes

NON-ALCOHOLIC

A New Verjuice is born


Verjuice is a versatile culinary ingredient. It’s a milder acidulant than vinegar, and it it’s ideal for deglazing, poaching and vinaigrettes.


Sally’s verjuice is made from under ripe pinot noir and shiraz grapes from the Paringa Estate home vineyard, as they’re not fermented, it doesn’t contain alcohol.


Each year, in late summer, we cut off fruit during our ‘green harvest’. This process is important to reduce our yields. As a result, the remaining bunches develop a greater concentration of sugar and flavour compounds. In the past, this culled fruit provided a delicious bounty for the Paringa geese, but this year we decided to make it into our first verjuice.


The geese, however, were not to be deprived. They did their own harvest! They wriggled under the bird nets when the best chardonnay was due to be picked, and stuffed as many bunches as they could until apprehended!


The Paringa chefs use it in many of their dishes. See below for his verjuice and viognier jelly recipe. To make a vinaigrette with it, mix three parts oil, with one part verjuice.


As acid heightens flavour, verjuice adds another dimension to cocktails. It’s also delicious poured over some ice with sparkling mineral water.

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