Unripe Grape Juice (Verjuice), 330ml

Unripe grape juice – often known as verjuice, or verjus – is made from pressing young green grapes, to create a wonderfully tart, acidic juice. Verjuice sits somewhere between wine and vinegar – the unripe grapes create a flavour that's sharper than wine, but the grape juice is lighter and fruitier than most vinegars. This makes verjuice the perfect ingredient for deglazing pans, or introducing a little acidity to cut through a rich sauce. Verjuice is also delicious in dressings, as the grape juice has softer, rounder notes than lots of harder-flavoured vinegars. Although often overlooked in British kitchens, verjuice appears in regional recipes throughout wine growing regions, such as Alhada Tolosenca – a sauce from Languedoc made from ground walnuts, garlic, oil and a splash of verjuice. Unripe grape juice is also used in Middle Eastern cooking where it’s better known as ab-ghooreh or hosrum. It’s a delicious (and alcohol-free) way of introducing a distinctive sourness to Middle Eastern dishes – wonderful as a marinade for fish and in both vegetable or meat stews. Also known as: verjus, ab-ghooreh, hosrum, husroum. Ingredients: sour grape juice, sodium metabisulfite (preservative)