Juniper spirit

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Historic bottle of Adler Dry Gin from the Prussian Spirits Manufactory

The spirits with juniper form a category of spirits within the meaning of the European Spirits Ordinance with a minimum alcohol content of 30% vol. Permissible product names are juniper and genebra , instead are for marking various registered geographical indications allowed (gin, Steinhaeger etc.). For gin, there are even stricter requirements in several other categories of the regulation and a higher minimum alcohol content of 37.5% vol. set.

Juniper spirits are made by flavoring ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin and / or grain spirit and / or grain distillate with "berries" of common juniper or cedar juniper . For flavoring, further natural and / or nature-identical aromatic substances and / or fragrance plants or parts thereof can be added, but the sensory properties of juniper berries - even if sometimes in a weakened form - must remain perceptible.

variants

Registered geographical indications for juniper according to the European Spirits Regulation are:

Manufacturer

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  • Regulation (EC) No. 110/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of January 15, 2008 on the definition, description, presentation and labeling of spirits and the protection of geographical indications for spirits and the repeal of Regulation (EEC) No. 1576/89 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on Uerdinger Doppelwacholder at schwarzen-schlichte.de , accessed on August 5, 2019