Wine, fruit & pomace spirits
Compare raw materials before regions or brands. These are related editorial groupings, with distinct legal definitions.
Brandy
- Raw materials
- Grape wine
- Production
- Distillation of wine followed by ageing for brandy; related wine spirits have their own rules.
- Flavour
- Wine-derived aroma with ageing character.
Cocktails using this spirit
Fruit spirits
- Raw materials
- Fruit such as apples, pears, cherries or plums
- Production
- Ferment the fruit or its juice, then distil; ageing varies.
- Flavour
- Fruit-derived aromas, with wood notes in aged styles.
Cocktails using this spirit
Pomace spirits
- Raw materials
- Fermented grape skins, seeds and residual pulp
- Production
- Distil fermented pomace; some expressions are aged in wood.
- Flavour
- Grape-derived aroma; character varies by grape and ageing.