Description
The Madernassa Pears, grown in our orchards of Alba and the Langhe hill, are stored in a special way: with Dolcetto wine, typical and very aromatic wine.
We obtain a product with a very special and very particular taste and fruity aromas that are due to the particular assigned to the pears from this wine so special and appreciated.
The pears are picked when ripe and processed within some hours, adding the syrup made with natural Dolcetto wine and sugar cane.
The result is a product preserved with the same characteristics of a fresh product with unique organoleptic properties and enhances the distinctive flavor of this particular variety of pear.
They are great to taste the natural, or simply opening the jar
to make delicious desserts, and ice cream.
The syrup is good to drink!
Elementary information
Name of the product: Madernassa Pears in Dolcetto wine
Category: Canned frui
Net weight: 760 g.
Ingredients: Pears, Moscato wine, cane sugar
Raw metarial
Origin: Piemonte
Variety: Madernassa Pear
Way of cultivation: organic certified
Date of the harvest: end September
Way of picking: by hand
Varietal characteristics
The Madernassa Pear is a variety named thanks a small village of Vezza d’Alba, a town very close to Alba, the capital of the Langhe and Roero outside (the location is very close to Azienda Agricola Prunotto Mariangela, about 3 km).
The plant-mother, grew up on a farm owned by Gavello farm, was pulled down in 1914, when he was 130 years old, a trunk circumference of m. 2.60 and a productivity even above 25 tons.
It is believed that this cultivar is derived from a natural cross of Martin sec with the wild. And, in fact, there are few differences. The culture of the board of the pear Madernassa has a major presence in the kitchen autumn and winter.
The tree is vigorous, rustic, very fertile, subject to alternation in the old manufacturing plants.
Flowering in a medium-early. Parthenocarpic variety (also produced seedless fruits).
Way of production
The entire production process is done manually according to the old country tradition of home production of fruit in syrup consumed in winter-spring, in the absence of fresh fruits.
The freshly picked fruit is selected, washed and put into jars by hand.
All the production is do in less than 24 hours frm the harvestiong of the fruits.