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Fortified wine flavoured with herbs, spices, fruit or other natural flavouring From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aromatised wine (spelled aromatized in American English) is a wine flavoured with aromatic herbs and spices. These are classified by their alcohol content and the flavourings and other ingredients used. The European Union defines three categories[1] which are: 'aromatised wine', 'aromatised wine-based drink' and 'aromatised wine-product cocktail'.[2] Drinks which have an alcohol content of 1.2% abv or less, cannot be labelled as containing wine.
An aromatised wine is a drink obtained from one or more of grapevine products, which must be at least 75% by volume of the finished drink. It may have added alcohol, colours, grape must, and it may be sweetened. Its actual alcohol strength must be at least 14.5% abv, and less than 22%. The majority of older brands come from France and Italy but there are now a range of small 'craft' producers around the world.
Vermouth is the most widely used aromatised wine due to its use in cocktails. Vermouth can be sweet or dry and red, white, pink or orange. It is traditionally flavoured with an infusion of herbs, peels and spices, which must include some member of the Artemisia (wormwood) family.[3][4] Notable brands include Martini and Cinzano which are commonplace around the world, and Noilly Prat and Dolin of France, Carpano and Cocchi of Italy.
These are categorised by the flavour that imparts the bitterness to the drink, usually either quinine or gentian root, or a mix of the two.
An 'egg-based aromatised wine' is one that is fortified, and has egg yolks added (minimum of 10g per litre), and a sugar content of more than 200g per litre. To qualify as 'cremovo', the drink must include a minimum of 80% of DOC Marsala wine. To qualify as 'cremovo zabaione', the drink must additionally have at least 60g egg yolks per litre.
A fortified aromatised wine whose characteristic flavour has been obtained from cloves and/or cinnamon.
Aromatised wine-based drink has at least 50% grapevine product no added alcohol (with some exceptions) may have added colour, grape must, may have been sweetened. The actual alcohol is at least 4.5% abv and less than 14.5% by vol. The following are recognised as known, defined named drinks:
Drinks classified as 'aromatised wine-product cocktail' must have at least 50% grapevine product. It is not permitted to add alcohol or grape must, but they may have added colouring, and may have been sweetened. The alcohol content is more than 1.2% and less than 10%.
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