quicksearch cocktails:   search tips

glossary (Bla - Bod)

Black Label
Quality-description for Scottish and American whisk(e)y, having an especially high amount of malt and being stored for a very long time. For example: Johnnie Walker Black Label, Jack Daniel's Black Label.

Blackberrys
Is another word for bilberrys.

Blackberry
Mostly these berrys are growing wild somewhere, but they can also grow in the gardens. The colour is black-red or black, often it is used as fresh fruit for Cobblers, claret cups and punch and syrup. German Brombeere, french Mueres sauvange, other meanings Kratzbeere, Kroatzbeere.

Blended, Blending
Like in "blended" whisky. In Scotland strong malt whisky is blended together with grain whisky. Blending is one of the most important working processes in producing whisky.

Blended Scotch Whisky
Collective description for all Scottish whisky-blends. The first producing a whisky-blend was Andrew Usher, who was working at Smith's in Edinbourg producing the Smith's Glenlivet Malt Whiskies. In 1853, he blended a few of these whiskies and named the developed product Vatted Malt, a description, which is still common today. Later on, malt whiskies and grain whiskies were blended with each other, and a new whisky-type - the Blended Scotch Whisky- was born.

Blended Wine
Dessert-, sweet-, south or liqueur wine.
Blended wines are wines, which are characterised by the special character of the wine-grape and two more factors. On one hand, it is the special treatment, the preservation and on the other hand it is the additions, like carbon dioxide, alcohol and cider while the production. Starting product of blended wine is always a basic wine.
Prescriptions by law
They are meant for every blended wine. Exceptions are vermouth and synthetic sparkling wine.
In Austria
Blended wines (dessert - or south wines) have an alcohol content of at least 13 Vol.- % and 22.5 Vol.- % the most.
In Germany
There is not such a description like "Blended Wines" in Germany. Products described as dessert wine or south wine or sweet wine have to be produced outside of the country and may only be blended with other dessert wines or treated in another way (except Vermouth) in the country. The EWG introduced the description liqueur wine in Germany to replace the former description "dessert wine". Exceptions are squist out wines (alcohol added wines), which are still described as dessert wines. Liqueur wines are products with an entire alcohol content of at least 17.5 Vol.-% as well as a excisting alcohol content of at least 15 Vol.-% and 22 Vol.-§ the most. The main important difference between the former German wine-codex and the EWG-regulations is, that now liqueur wine can also be produced interior.
In Switzerland
Here, only the description "sweet-wines" exists. It is a wine, which differs from usual wine, because of its more or less sweet taste or because of a higher alcohol content. Its alcohol content is 18 to 20 Vol.- %.
Types
Blended wines are devided into groups depending on the ingredients used in the production process. Each product has its own production procedure, therefore the production cannot be treated as being flat-rate. It is always run specially in each step of the production.
The groups are the following:
Addition from alcohol and cider Sherry, port wine, Madeira, Samos, Mavrodaphne
Addition from alcohol, wine cider and cider-concentrates, Marsala, Malaga
Addition from raisins (dry berries) and cider Tokajer
Addition from alcohol and sugar Refosco, Karlowitzer
Addition from alcohol, sugar and herbal extracts, vermouth
Addition from alcohol, grape-juice, cinchona and aromats, Quinquinas, like Cynar, Dubbonnet, St. Raphael
Addition from carbon dioxide synthetic sparkling wine

Blood Orange
Blood Oranges are either fruits of yellow skin and red pulp or orange red skin and blood orange flesh. Because of its intense colour blood orange juice is often used to mix fruit juices, concentrates or for decoration.

Blood peach
Is the german expression for Cardinals.

Blueberry
Is another word for bilberry.

Bodega
This is an expression to describe a ground level storage hall with a good air conditioning, where Sherry ripens in barrels.