Raspberry Nectar

Alain Milliat – Raspberry Nectar

Alain Milliat's raspberry nectar is sweet, soft, and elegant, with an intense aroma of ripe, freshly picked Meeker raspberries from Alsace. This popular mid-early summer variety yields dark red, delicious raspberries. Anyone who has tasted the sweet-sour aroma of this special variety will immediately recognize and enjoy it here again.

The Meeker raspberries are hand-picked and gently transformed into this delicious nectar.

This intensely red nectar will captivate you with its velvety texture, its freshness, its aromatic power, and its slightly tart flavors. Alain Milliat's raspberry nectar, with a 40% fruit content, is wonderfully refreshing with mineral water or as an aperitif mixed with sparkling wine. The wonderfully dense nectar, almost like a raspberry coulis, is also versatile in the kitchen, perfect for refining desserts and cakes as well as salad dressings.

Raspberry – Nectar or Juice?

Nectar, what a promising word, which in botany refers to the liquid that comes from flower calyxes, 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 of nectar to consist of sugar, and the fruit content, which can consist of fruit juice or fruit pulp, must be at least 25% depending on the fruit variety, thus valuing juice as higher quality than nectar.

But what does Alain Milliat care about the fruit juice regulation? After all, more good ingredients than the minimum requirement are not forbidden. Thus, his nectars 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, and a fruit farmer himself, took over the family business in Orliénas near Lyon in 1983. For 15 years, he respectfully nurtured the land entrusted to him, growing 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 balance, and colors of his juices to the needs of the restaurants. Driven by his success with the gourmet restaurants, with which he still collaborates today, the passionist continually develops more juices and nectars from special, hand-picked fruits that offer unique taste experiences. Today, Alain Milliat sources his fruits from all over France and beyond, always at their optimal ripeness.