Hi, so I'm hosting a medieval feast this next weekend and I want to make it as accurate as possible. For dessert I'm serving hypocras and am following a recipe from the book Pleyn Delit. The book does describes what some wines like clares were like back then and the regions they came from, but it does not give many modern examples of wines that would be good substitutes.
So, my main question is what type of modern wine should I use to best represent the wines that were used to make hypocras in 13th century England or France? Thanks
My first thought was Bordeaux, a quick perusal of French vintners that are meant to have recreated Hypocras suggests this is correct. I'm certainly no oenophile though, there may be a better modern variety to use but Bordeaux wines seem to be the most common.