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Slivovitz is a fruit spirit (or fruit brandy) made from damson plums, [1] often referred to as plum spirit (or plum brandy). [2] Slivovitz is produced in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, both commercially and privately. Primary producers include Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Greece, Hungary, North Macedonia, Poland ...
The term "țuică" is defined as a spirit made from plums, although it is also colloquially used to refer to all distilled beverages. [4] The term "palincă" is a generic term for any type of fruit brandy, while "palincă de prune" refers specifically to plum brandy.
Umeshu (梅酒) is a Japanese liqueur made by steeping ume plums (while still unripe and green) in liquor (焼酎, shōchū) and sugar. It has a sweet, sour taste, and an alcohol content of 10–15%. Famous brands of umeshu include Choya, Takara Shuzo and Matsuyuki.
Slivovitz – Slavic fruit brandy Sloe gin – Red liqueur made from gin and blackthorn drupes Suanmeitang – traditional [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Chinese beverage made from sour plums (specifically, smoked Chinese plums ), [ 12 ] rock sugar , and other ingredients such as sweet osmanthus .
Ágyas ('bedded') is a pálinka aged for at least three months together with fruit. The fruit can be of the same sort used to obtain the distillate or of another sort. To 100 liters of pálinka at least 10 kg of ripe or 5 kg of dried fruit must be added. Törköly (Pomace pálinka, also Törkölypálinka) is a pálinka made from grape pomace.
Fruit brandy (or fruit spirit) [1] is a distilled beverage produced from mash, juice, wine or residues of edible fruits. The term covers a broad class of spirits produced across the world, and typically excludes beverages made from grapes , which are referred to as plain brandy (when made from distillation from wine ) or pomace brandy (when ...
Sloe gin is a British red liqueur made with gin and blackthorn fruits (sloes), which are the drupe fruit of the Prunus spinosa tree, which is a relative of the plum. [1] As an alcoholic drink, sloe gin contains between 15 per cent and 30 per cent alcohol by volume (ABV); however, European Union regulations established 25 per cent ABV as the ...
In the Czech Republic and Slovakia, pálenka is any kind of distilled beverage but especially fruit brandy. The term is often used generically for all kinds of liquors, including vodka, gin and borovička. [1] The word derives from the Slavic verb *paliti (Czech: pálit, Slovak: páliť) 'to burn; to distill'.