Noilly Prat

Noilly Prat is a Vermouth created in 1813 per Joseph Noilly with Marseillan, starting from an original receipt.

Development

Its development is complex and aims at reconstituting the taste of the wine imported in boat and exposed on the bridge to the sun and the spray. Two white type of vines resulting from the area, the Picpoul, wine of plain, and the Clairette, wine of the slopes are out-of-date separately in the lightnings in oak of Canada, used because its white sap does not color the wine and that its dense fiber leaves little place to evaporation. After 8 months, they are transvased in muids, barrels of oak of the Limousin (more porous), and in the open air pass 1 year. At the end of this long period of ageing during which 8% of the contents of the barrels evaporate (it is " the share of Anges"), the wines are assembled according to a quite precise proportioning, one then adds to it Mistelles and spirits of lemons and raspberries.

Start then, in the " Room of the secrets" , the last stage of manufacture, that of the maceration. A score of plants and grasses of the whole world are used according to a secret kept proportioning: Camomile of Italy, Coriandre of Bulgaria, bitter orange bark of Spain, Nutmeg of Indonesia, Centaury of Morocco…

Use

A long time popular, at the point to be regarded as the Martini French, Noilly Prat fell in disuse since the Second world war and is used almost more only for the development of thawed traditional sauces and cocktails (Adriana, the Cardinal).

Types of wine

Noilly Prat Dry
Red Noilly Prat (sold exclusively with export)
Noilly Prat amber (available only to Marseillan).

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