Strawberry Nectar

Alain Milliat Strawberry Nectar from Senga Sengana

Alain Milliat's strawberry nectar is sweet, soft, and elegant, and it has an intense aroma of fully ripe, freshly picked Senga Sengana strawberries. This popular cultivated strawberry ripens with a particularly aromatic and sweet flavor. Anyone who has had the opportunity to taste the unique aroma of this special variety will immediately recognize and enjoy it here again.

The Senga Sengana strawberries are hand-picked and gently transformed into this delicious nectar. For Alain Milliat, the strawberry is the fruit of children. But it is also the fruit that announces summer and the sweetness of the lively months to come.

This intensely bright red nectar will captivate you with its velvety texture, its freshness, its aromatic power, and its jammy notes of strawberry preserve. Alain Milliat's strawberry nectar, with a fruit content of 40%, is wonderfully refreshing with sparkling water or as an aperitif with sparkling wine. The wonderfully dense nectar is also versatile in dessert cuisine.

The strawberry nectar ranked a magnificent 3rd place in the 2022 annual ranking - "with its candy-red color, opulent texture, and sincere aromas, it embodies gourmet dining in itself," Alain Milliat enthuses about this nectar.

Strawberry – Nectar or Juice?

Nectar, what a promising word, which in botany refers to the liquid that comes from the calyxes of flowers, and in Greek mythology, the drink of the gods that bestows eternal youth and immortality. The European fruit juice regulation is less euphoric. It distinguishes between juice and nectar and allows up to 20% of the final product to consist of sugar in nectar, and the fruit content, which can consist of fruit juice or fruit pulp, must be at least 25% depending on the fruit variety, thus classifying juice as higher quality than nectar.

But what does Alain Milliat care about fruit juice regulation? After all, more good ingredients than the minimum requirement are not forbidden. His nectars therefore consist of 40% fruit content.

We recommend enjoying Alain Milliat nectar from a white wine glass so that the aromas can unfold particularly well at a cool drinking temperature of 8-12 degrees.

Alain Milliat – the Passionist

Alain Milliat, grandson and son of a farmer, himself a fruit farmer, took over the family business in Orliénas near Lyon in 1983. For 15 years, he respectfully tended the land entrusted to him and cultivated the best fruit, especially a particularly sought-after cherry variety. In 1997, Maison Alain Milliat launched the project of producing high-quality juices for gourmets. Alain sent the first six juices and nectars to 60 restaurants from the Relais & Châteaux guide and eagerly awaited the sommeliers' reactions to his creations. And they were enthusiastic. This great idea allows him to adapt the textures, sugar-acid balances, and colors of his juices to the needs of the restaurants. Driven by his success with the gourmet restaurants, with which he still works today, the Passionist constantly develops new juices and nectars from special, hand-picked fruits that offer unique taste experiences. Today, Alain Milliat buys his fruits throughout France and beyond, always at optimal ripeness.