Does anybody know how I can get Date wine?
1. Not wine for a date. Wine MADE from dates.
2. Not date palm wine, which is made from the sap of the date palm, not the fruit.
Google just keeps giving me bollocks from wanky sommeliers about what wine is best for a date.
Reason: I'm writing about 1/2
1. Not wine for a date. Wine MADE from dates.
2. Not date palm wine, which is made from the sap of the date palm, not the fruit.
Google just keeps giving me bollocks from wanky sommeliers about what wine is best for a date.
Reason: I'm writing about 1/2
Comments
Bols makes a date liquer. Which is not wine.
And then there's the pomegranate wine in the screenshot, which might lead to more info, but it's a difficult wormhole to follow. So many search returns were for vintage dates and date nights.
They were the closest I could find, alas.
Ideally not in Israel.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285965526856?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araqi_(drink)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabidh
Date Wine
Process:
Date fruits crushed, soaked & undergoes fermentation & aging process in stainless steel tanks
Medium Sweet
Content:
100% Indian Date
I have boosted. I suspect a LOT of people will be "helpful" but not actually have an answer for you
I just wanted something from that region.
Also, I have never trusted myself to make good alcohol.
We made hooch in boarding school and I'm pretty sure that thing had so much methanol in it.
A bit sweet with a coarse texture is the only one I have had.
Here dates are much used in traditional foods, but wines are very European due to the Knights influence.
Marsovin vineyards are everywhere, but it's too small for export despite high quality.
Kinnie!
https://www.prospecierara.ch/pflanzen/sortenfinder/GE-3104
Also not what @tadethompson.bsky.social is looking for.
In Frech (vin de dattes) I found recipes on how to make it yourself. But he does not want to do that.
I did find an eaux-de-vie de dattes.
But that would be hard liquor and probably also not what you're looking for.
Maybe if you search these names.
The citrus source is missing.
And the addition of malt sugar, ethanol, and even yeast might change the taste.
That said, I do want to taste this.
I might go myself. I'm due a holiday of some kind...
In the olden times 'Khamr' was the word for wine.
The language has changed quite a bit, as you can imagine.
I suspect it would be close in taste to dessert wines.
https://morad.co.il/english/danue-date-wine/
For centuries it was the main source of alcohol in the Arabian peninsula.
And I want to know what it tastes like.
Strictly research purposes, I promise.
2/2
Not wine FOR a date, gotcha.
I'm not looking for the recipe. I have that. That's not what I'm asking for.
I do not want to make it myself. I want a regional taste.
We asked her of her wine, and she replied: 'Wine like my saliva--agreeable, delicious, sweet; it leaves the mild-hearted one in the most suitable beauty.'
-Please assume I've done the basic searches.
-Date wine is not distilled.
-Arabic words are not the same now as they were centuries ago, just like any language (like English).
-What I'm really after here is someone who knows. Doing the same searches I've done over months won't help.
https://healthy-food-near-me.com/date-wine-at-home/
One assumes that since this was pre-Islamic, a lot might have been lost in the cultural purge that happened after the 6th Century.
Most reasonable-sized towns (e.g. Bury, Bolton) have one or two, and cities have a few.