Liqueur
Sweetened, flavored liquors, also called cordials.
London dry gin
See Gin.
Liqueur
A strong alcoholic drink made from distilled spirits, with additional flavouring added like herbs and spices.
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Liqueurs:
Sweet flavored alcoholic beverage
distilled from
rum, brandy, or whisky.
Liqueur
A sweet, flavored, alcohol based drink.
Used in the world of wine to mean something completely different.
Liqueur: A sweet, alcoholic after-dinner drink, also known as a cordial.
Lively: A wine with high acidity and a crisp, fresh flavor. This term is also used for sparkling wines with a pleasant bubble.
[edit] Liqueur de tirage French term for a liquid containing saccharose and yeast used to effect the second fermentation in sparkling wine production.
A sweet liqueur with licorice-like aroma and flavor, made from aniseed.
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Once the liqueur has been added the bottle is sealed - perhaps with a cork, although a crown cap just like those commonly found sealing bottles of beer is more likely - and it then must be left well alone for the yeast to do what is expected of it.
Choose a liqueur that will go nicely with the fruit you want to use. Don't be afraid to experiment; make your sangria recipe your own and enjoy the fruits of summer!
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Pour the liqueur over the petals and put the bowl in the refrigerator until chilled.
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Remove from the refrigerator and pour in the wine. Return to the refrigerator to chill for a few hours.
Dosage
"liqueur d'expedition," addition of cane sugar and wine mixture to replace wine lost at degorgement and identify sweetness levels.
Designations
Brut ...
"Vin de liqueur". Liqueur wine; sweet wine not meeting the lawful standards of the VDN, or wine obtained by mixture of wine and alcohol (Pineau of Charentes).
V.D.N.
Denomination reserved for the wines with AOC, obtained by mutage, i.e.
French blackcurrant liqueur, classic description for the aroma of red Bordeaux.
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dosageThe liqueur, or sugar dissolved in reserve wine, added to the Champagne just before final corking. The dosage finishes the Champagnes and determines its level of sweetness. double magnumThe common name for a three litre wine bottle.
Liqueur d'expédition sugar-based liquid used to top up sparkling wines after disgorging. Its composition will determine whether the final product is brut, demi-sec, or sec.
Then, before bottling, a small amount of wine, sugar and yeast is added ('liqueur de triage') to trigger a second fermentation in the bottle, where the carbon dioxide bubbles are trapped.
On first tasting, its aroma evokes Chambord raspberry liqueur, warm and ripe. Full-bodied, red-berry fruit and subtle earth and sufficient acidity are softened by abundant fruit and structured by slight, drying tannins, with 14.
Fortified Wines or Liqueur-type Wines:
There are five common types of fortified wines: sherry, port, marsala, vin santo, & madeira.
This liqueur de tirage assures a uniform secondary fermentation in the bottles. Until the application of three scientific contributions, making sparkling wine could be more dangerous than making bombs.
At this point the bottles are refilled with a special solution - called liqueur d'expedition or dosage - which also has the purpose of giving the right sweetness to the wine according to style.
The blended wine is put in bottles along with yeast and a small amount of sugar, called the liqueur de tirage, and stored in a wine cellar horizontally, for a second fermentation. Champagne requires a minimum of 1.
Eau-de-Vie (digestive liqueur) produced in Italy
Graves :
The white wines come from the Sauvignon and Sémillion grape varieties; the red wines from traditional Bordeaux varieties.
GRAPPA
A digestive liqueur produced in Italy
GRAVES
A region inside the larger Bordeaux region of France, named for it's gravelly soil, and known mostly for red wines as well as Bordeaux's classic dry, whites ...
Wine crystal glasses were frequently fabricated in sets of dozen during the nineteenth century, each set for burgundy and claret, port and sherry, liqueur glasses, and champagne glasses.
Noyeau: Also known as Noyau. A French liqueur made from brandy and bitter almonds or apricot kernels, sometimes colored pink.
Wales detects its presence as early as 1817, which suggests its use for liqueur wines and spirits, he also speaks in a publication of the Agrarian Florence (1870), but is cited by many ampelographers, including a Rovasenda (1877), ...
Chasselas usually produces a dry, delicate, undistinguished light white wine, though it is used to produce vin de paille, a golden, liqueur-like wine in Alsace and in Switzerland produces a popular dry, ...
Drop a couple of raspberries into each glass, or add a half teaspoon of raspberry liqueur for a rosy glow. A tiny bit of a flavored syrup like the sort used in espresso bars - try peach, mango, hazelnut or strawberry - adds a fillip of extra flavor.
Viticulture
The hot, highly continental climate of North East Victoria, Australia is ideal terroir for growing grapes for producing delicious liqueur Muscats-Australia's answer to Europe's fortified versions.
5 fluid ounce shot of a 40-percent alcohol, such as whiskey, rum, tequila, or vodka, is equal to one standard drink. Some liqueurs are around 24 percent alcohol, in which case 2.5 ozs. equals a standard drink. If a liquor is 17 percent alcohol, 3.
Dosage: A sweetened spirit added at the very end to Champagne and other traditionally made sparkling wines. It determines whether a wine is brut, extra dry, dry or semisweet. (fr. liqueur de tirage) ...
fortified wine: Wines that have had alcohol added to them at some time during their making. The alcohol addition increases the wine's alcohol content to between 15 and 23%. Fortified wines include the sherries, ports, madiera and liqueur styles ...
Rancio
An obscure tasting term that describes the pungent smell of a (usually fortified) wine that has been intentionally oxidized or exposed to heat. Examples of wines showing rancio include some Madeiras or Australian liqueur muscats.
in the Gaillac region of France, about 100 miles southeast of Bordeaux, and used in local white sweet wine blends. Incorrectly called Sauvignon Vert in California. Australian winemakers use it to produce a suberb sweet dessert wine known as "Liqueur ...
used in small quantities (5 percent in the wines of Sauternes and Barsac). Muscadelle is also found in the sweet wines of the Premières Côtes de Bordeaux AC and in Australia where it is called Tokay and found in pudding wines called Liqueur Tokays.
E Victoria region of Australia use it to produce a superb sweet dessert wine known as "Liqueur Tokay of Australia", the name being due to the mistaken early belief that the Tokaji wines of Hungary were made from this grape.
Pacharán - Sloeberry liqueur from Navarra/ Basque country.
Pago - single vineyard, Château style estate bottled wine ...
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