A glass of weed wine, anyone?

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: wine with cannabis.

Not high, but relaxed. With cannabis beer, CBD sriracha or a weed burger find your inner peace, it’s possible. Besides these weed-infused products, the weed wine from the French cannabis grower Raphael De Pablo is now a real hit.

The history of weed wine
Weed wine is thousands of years old. French archaeologists discovered a grave in 2015 of a Gaul who was buried a few hundred years before Christ, with quite a few wine barrels in his grave. After an investigation three years ago, it was found that there was no ordinary French wine in the barrels, but wine that also contained cannabis.

The addition of cannabis was mainly intended to improve the taste, as the wine often had more of a sour vinegar taste after a while, than the seductive taste of red fruit, French professor Matthieu Poux said in an interview at the time. Cannabis grower Raphael De Pablo came across the interview and was so curious about the CBD wine that he decided to get started himself. And thus, weed wine was reborn.

Burdi W.
And that newcomer has turned out quite well. At the beginning of this year, the first bottle of ‘Burdi W.’ was filled. The Burdi W. wine is a traditional Bordeaux wine with CBD from Raphael's own organic cannabis farm. By the way, you won’t get stoned from the wine; it contains a minimal amount of THC, as higher percentages are prohibited in France, and also in the Netherlands.

Cannawine
Unfortunately, we can’t get our hands on a bottle of the weed wine. Besides France, the bottles are only delivered in Luxembourg and Belgium. However, you can still go for a bottle of Spanish Cannawine with hemp extract. Or travel to our neighboring countries this summer.