Discover our different mistelas, their history, as well as the elaboration and pairing processes.
Mistela Vall de Xaló Selecta Moscatel is a sweet liqueur wine that marks the effort and the great tradition of the winery. Made with the best muscatel grapes and awarded with the Gran Premio PROAVA 2022, to the best wine of the Valencian Community in all categories.
A liqueur wine with the Giró grape variety, and one of the best bets of Bodegas Xaló. Bordeaux red in colour, with aromas of red and black fruits. Awarded the PROAVA 2022 silver medal in the category of liqueur wines.
Undoubtedly our most traditional product, typical of the Marina Alta, where the Muscatel of Alejandria grapes with which it is made reach exceptional quality. It is a very sweet, dense and unctuous wine, reminiscent of ripe Muscatel grapes.
A sweet wine with intense aromas of very ripe red and black fruits, it is a sweet, structured and unctuous wine. Made with grapes from the Giró variety.
A very sweet, dense, unctuous wine, reminiscent of the ripe muscatel grape. Typical of the Marina Alta and the Mediterranean climate, it is undoubtedly our most traditional product.
If you are looking for an original gift that everyone will love, try our delicious mini bottles of mistela. Ideal as a gift at events, weddings, communions, christenings, etc. A delight for the palate.
The mistela It is a drink that has been made for thousands of years. Thanks to the alcohol, the fermentation of the must is avoided, since the yeasts cannot survive, increasing its sugar content, and obtaining a natural sweet product with 15% added alcohol.
The fermentation of the must, under normal environmental conditions, stops spontaneously when the alcoholic graduation reaches 15 degrees. One way to stop the fermentation is to add wine alcohol to the must that has not yet fermented, in this way we achieve that the resulting product preserves all the flavor of the must.
It is a way to preserve grape juice for a long time thanks to the fact that alcohol is a very good preservative.
Mistela is an alcoholic beverage made with freshly pressed must and the addition of wine alcohol with an alcohol content of around 15 degrees. This process prevents its alcoholic fermentation, and a sweet drink with an alcohol content of 15% vol. is obtained in a natural way.
They can be made with white grapes and red grapes. The best mistelas are obtained from aromatic white varieties such as Muscatel of Alexandria.
Sometimes mistelas are also made from raisins of the Muscatel variety, where following traditional methods, the Muscatel grapes are left to brown in the Mediterranean sun, giving rise to unique flavors, such as the award-winning Riu Rau limited edition mistelaby Bodegas Xaló.
Besides being perfect to accompany desserts and after-dinner meals, as well as to take it alone, it is also interesting to combine it with a good cheese board, especially goat cheeses. For foie lovers it is also highly recommended, the combination of the sweetness of the mistela together with the flavor of the foie, is something extraordinary.
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