Macadam: noun Coating of tracks with crushed stone and sand, agglomerated by means of pressure rollers.
Macadam wine is a slang expression for a White wine new which has not fermented and whose cloudy appearance by its lees in suspension resembles the composition of macadamia. We are also talking about a White wine sweet and thick Bergerac, a rough wine, which was once shipped to Paris: "this White wine soft, nicknamed macadam, which indeed looks like yellowish mud, and which smells of both sulfur and disappointment ”we have been able to write about it in the XNUMXth century.e century. It was also called bernach.
Macadam is also a dark beer of English origin, quite bitter (porter).