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Apéritif and digestif

Index Apéritif and digestif

Apéritifs and digestifs are drinks, typically alcoholic, that are normally served before (apéritif) or after (digestif) a meal. [1]

90 relations: Akvavit, Alcoholic drink, Alembic, Amaro (liqueur), Amontillado, Amuse-bouche, Antonio Benedetto Carpano, Aperol Spritz, Appetite, Arak (drink), Armagnac (brandy), Bartending terminology, Bäsk, Beaujolais nouveau, Bitters, Black Russian, Brandy, Calvados, Campari, Carminative, Champagne, Chartreuse (liqueur), Cheese, Cognac, Cracker (food), Crème de cassis, Crémant d'Alsace, Crete, Diadochos of Photiki, Dinner, Drambuie, Dubonnet, Eastern Mediterranean, Eau de vie, Fernet, Fernet-Branca, Fino, Florence, Fortified wine, French Foreign Legion, Fruit brandy, Genoa, Gin, Grand Marnier, Grappa, Happy hour, Herbs de Majorca, Hors d'oeuvre, Irish Mist, Italy, ..., Jägermeister, Kahlúa, Kir (cocktail), Kir Royal, Kräuterlikör, Latin America, Licor Beirão, Limoncello, Liqueur, List of duo and trio cocktails, Lunch, Madeira wine, Malaria, Meze, Milan, Mirto (liqueur), Mosquito, North Africa, Olive, Ouzo, Pastis, Pâté, Pomace brandy, Port wine, Quinine, Rakı, Rome, Rusty Nail (cocktail), Schnapps, Sherry, Tapas, Tequila, Tsikoudia, Turin, Underberg, Unicum, Venice, Vermouth, Whisky, White wine. Expand index (40 more) »

Akvavit

Akvavit or aquavit (also akevitt in Norwegian) is a distilled spirit that is principally produced in Scandinavia, where it has been produced since the 15th century.

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Alcoholic drink

An alcoholic drink (or alcoholic beverage) is a drink that contains ethanol, a type of alcohol produced by fermentation of grains, fruits, or other sources of sugar.

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Alembic

An alembic is an alchemical still consisting of two vessels connected by a tube, used for distilling chemicals.

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Amaro (liqueur)

Amaro (Italian for "bitter") is an Italian herbal liqueur that is commonly consumed as an after-dinner digestif.

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Amontillado

Amontillado is a variety of sherry wine characterized by being darker than fino but lighter than oloroso.

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Amuse-bouche

An amuse-bouche or amuse-gueule is a single, bite-sized hors d’œuvre.

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Antonio Benedetto Carpano

Antonio Benedetto Carpano (1764, Bioglio (Biella) - 1815, Turin) was an Italian distiller, famous for having invented Vermouth and consequently the apéritif.

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Aperol Spritz

An Aperol Spritz is an aperitif cocktail consisting of prosecco, Aperol and soda water.

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Appetite

Appetite is the desire to eat food, sometimes due to hunger.

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Arak (drink)

Arak or araq (عرق, ערק) is a Levantine alcoholic spirit (~40–63% Alc. Vol./~80–126 proof, commonly 50% Alc. Vol./100 proof) in the anise drinks family.

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Armagnac (brandy)

Armagnac is a distinctive kind of brandy produced in the Armagnac region in Gascony, southwest France.

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Bartending terminology

Various unique terminology is used in bartending.

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Bäsk

Bäsk (Swedish for "bitter") is a Swedish style spiced liquor flavored with wormwood ("malört" in Swedish).

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Beaujolais nouveau

Beaujolais nouveau is a red wine made from Gamay grapes produced in the Beaujolais region of France.

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Bitters

A bitters is traditionally an alcoholic preparation flavored with botanical matter so that the end result is characterized by a bitter, sour, or bittersweet flavor.

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Black Russian

The Black Russian is a cocktail of vodka and coffee liqueur.

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Brandy

Brandy is a spirit produced by distilling wine.

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Calvados

Calvados is an apple brandy from the Normandy region in France.

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Campari

Campari is an alcoholic liqueur, considered an apéritif (20.5%, 21%, 24%, 25%, or 28.5% ABV, depending on the country in which it is sold), obtained from the infusion of herbs and fruit (including chinotto and cascarilla) in alcohol and water.

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Carminative

A carminative, also known as carminativum (plural carminativa), is a herb or preparation intended to either prevent formation of gas in the gastrointestinal tract or facilitate the expulsion of said gas, thereby combatting flatulence.

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Champagne

Champagne is sparkling wine or, in EU countries, legally only that sparkling wine which comes from the Champagne region of France.

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Chartreuse (liqueur)

Chartreuse is a French liqueur made by the Carthusian Monks since 1737 according to the instructions set out in a manuscript given to them by François Annibal d'Estrées in 1605.

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Cheese

Cheese is a dairy product derived from milk that is produced in a wide range of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein.

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Cognac

Cognac is a variety of brandy named after the town of Cognac, France.

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Cracker (food)

A cracker is a baked food typically made from flour.

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Crème de cassis

Crème de cassis (also known as Cassis Liqueur) is a sweet, dark red liqueur made from blackcurrants.

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Crémant d'Alsace

Crémant d'Alsace is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée for sparkling wines made in the Alsace wine region of France.

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Crete

Crete (Κρήτη,; Ancient Greek: Κρήτη, Krḗtē) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.

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Diadochos of Photiki

Saint Diadochos of Photiki was a fifth-century ascetic whose works are included in the Philokalia.

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Dinner

Dinner usually refers to the most significant meal of the day, which can be at noon or in the evening.

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Drambuie

Drambuie is a golden coloured, 40% ABV liqueur made from scotch whisky, honey, herbs and spices.

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Dubonnet

Dubonnet is a sweet, aromatised wine-based aperitif with 15% alcohol by volume.

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Eastern Mediterranean

The Eastern Mediterranean denotes the countries geographically to the east of the Mediterranean Sea (Levantine Seabasin).

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Eau de vie

An eau de vie (French for spirits, – French version of European Union spirits regulations literally "water of life") is a clear, colourless fruit brandy that is produced by means of fermentation and double distillation.

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Fernet

Fernet is an Italian type of amaro, a bitter, aromatic spirit.

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Fernet-Branca

Fernet-Branca is a brand of amaro, or bitter herbal liqueur.

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Fino

Fino ("refined" in Spanish) is the driest and palest of the traditional varieties of Sherry and Montilla-Moriles fortified wine.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Fortified wine

Fortified wine is a wine to which a distilled spirit, usually brandy, is added.

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French Foreign Legion

The French Foreign Legion (Légion étrangère) (FFL; Légion étrangère, L.É.) is a military service branch of the French Army established in 1831.

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Fruit brandy

Fruit brandy or fruit spirit is a distilled beverage produced from mash, juice, wine or residues of culinary fruits.

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Genoa

Genoa (Genova,; Zêna; English, historically, and Genua) is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy.

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Gin

Gin is liquor which derives its predominant flavour from juniper berries (Juniperus communis).

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Grand Marnier

Grand Marnier Cordon Rouge is an orange-flavored liqueur created in 1880 by Alexandre Marnier-Lapostolle.

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Grappa

Grappa is an alcoholic beverage, a fragrant, grape-based pomace brandy of Italian origin that contains 35 to 60 percent alcohol by volume (70 to 120 US proof).

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Happy hour

Happy hour is a marketing term for a period of time in which a venue (such as a restaurant, bar, bowling alley, stadium, or state or county fair) offers discounts on alcoholic drinks, such as beer, wine, and cocktails.

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Herbs de Majorca

Herbs de Majorca (Herbes de Mallorca; Hierbas Mallorquinas) is a Majorcan herbal liqueur made from anise and other aromatic plants such as camomile, fennel, lemon, lemon verbena, marjoram, mint, orange, and rosemary.

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Hors d'oeuvre

An hors d'oeuvre (hors d'œuvre), appetizer or starter is a small dish served before a meal.

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Irish Mist

Irish Mist is a brown Whiskey Liqueur produced in Dublin, Ireland, by the Irish Mist Liqueur Company Ltd.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Jägermeister

italic is a digestif made with 56 herbs and spices at a strength of 35% alcohol by volume (61 degrees proof, or US 70 proof).

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Kahlúa

Kahlúa is a coffee-flavored liqueur from Mexico.

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Kir (cocktail)

Kir is a popular French cocktail made with a measure of crème de cassis (blackcurrant liqueur) topped up with white wine.

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Kir Royal

Kir Royal is a French cocktail, a variation on Kir.

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Kräuterlikör

Kräuterlikör (herbal liqueur or spiced liqueur, also called "half-bitters") is a type of liqueur that is flavored with herbs or spices and traditionally drunk neat as a digestif.

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Latin America

Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Spanish, French and Portuguese are spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.

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Licor Beirão

Licor Beirão is a Portuguese liqueur with 22% ABV.

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Limoncello

Limoncello is an Italian lemon liqueur mainly produced in Southern Italy, especially in the region around the Gulf of Naples, the Sorrentine Peninsula and the coast of Amalfi, and islands of Procida, Ischia, and Capri.

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Liqueur

A liqueur is an alcoholic beverage made from a distilled spirit that has been flavored with either fruit, cream, herbs, spices, flowers or nuts, and is bottled with added sugars and other sweeteners (such as high-fructose corn syrup).

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List of duo and trio cocktails

Duos and trios are a family of mixed drinks.

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Lunch

Lunch, the abbreviation for luncheon, is a meal typically eaten at midday.

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Madeira wine

Madeira is a fortified wine made in the Portuguese Madeira Islands, off the coast of Africa.

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Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease affecting humans and other animals caused by parasitic protozoans (a group of single-celled microorganisms) belonging to the Plasmodium type.

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Meze

Meze or mezze (also spelled mazzeh or mazze; maze; meze; məzə; mezés; мезe / meze; мезе; мезе; muqabbilāt; Meze; мезе) is a selection of small dishes served to accompany alcoholic drinks in the Near East, the Balkans, and parts of Central Asia.

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Milan

Milan (Milano; Milan) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city in Italy after Rome, with the city proper having a population of 1,380,873 while its province-level municipality has a population of 3,235,000.

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Mirto (liqueur)

Mirto (licòre/-i de murta in Sardinian, licòr di mortula in Corsican) is a popular liqueur in the islands of Sardinia, Corsica and Capraia.

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Mosquito

Mosquitoes are small, midge-like flies that constitute the family Culicidae.

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North Africa

North Africa is a collective term for a group of Mediterranean countries and territories situated in the northern-most region of the African continent.

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Olive

The olive, known by the botanical name Olea europaea, meaning "European olive", is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, found in the Mediterranean Basin from Portugal to the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, and southern Asia as far east as China, as well as the Canary Islands and Réunion.

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Ouzo

Ouzo (ούζο) is a dry anise-flavoured aperitif that is widely consumed in Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon and Israel.

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Pastis

Pastis is an anise-flavoured spirit and apéritif from France, typically containing less than 100 g/l sugar and 40–45% ABV (alcohol by volume).

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Pâté

Pâté is a mixture of cooked ground meat and fat minced into a spreadable paste.

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Pomace brandy

Pomace brandy is a liquor distilled from pomace that is left over from winemaking, after the grapes are pressed.

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Port wine

Port wine (also known as vinho do Porto,, Porto, and usually simply port) is a Portuguese fortified wine produced exclusively in the Douro Valley in the northern provinces of Portugal.

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Quinine

Quinine is a medication used to treat malaria and babesiosis.

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Rakı

Raki or rakı is an unsweetened, occasionally (depending on area of production) anise-flavored, alcoholic drink that is popular in Albania and Greece (where it is distinctly different and comes as an unflavoured distillate, unlike its Turkish counterpart), Iran, Turkic countries, and in the Balkan countries as an apéritif.

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Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

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Rusty Nail (cocktail)

A Rusty Nail is made by mixing Drambuie and Scotch whisky.

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Schnapps

Schnapps or schnaps is a type of alcoholic beverage that may take several forms, including distilled fruit brandies, herbal liqueurs, infusions, and "flavored liqueurs" made by adding fruit syrups, spices, or artificial flavorings to neutral grain spirits.

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Sherry

Sherry (Jerez or) is a fortified wine made from white grapes that are grown near the city of Jerez de la Frontera in Andalusia, Spain.

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Tapas

A tapa is an appetizer or snack in Spanish cuisine and translates to small portion of any kind of Spanish cuisine.

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Tequila

Tequila is a regional distilled beverage and type of alcoholic drink made from the blue agave plant, primarily in the area surrounding the city of Tequila, northwest of Guadalajara, and in the highlands (Los Altos) of the central western Mexican state of Jalisco.

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Tsikoudia

Tsikoudia (τσικουδιά) – also commonly raki (ρακί) in the eastern part of Crete – is an alcoholic beverage, a fragrant, grape-based pomace brandy of Cretan origin that contains 25% to 32% alcohol by volume.

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Turin

Turin (Torino; Turin) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy.

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Underberg

Underberg is a digestif bitter produced at Rheinberg in Germany by Underberg AG, made from aromatic herbs from 43 countries, which undergo inspections and are based on a secret Underberg family recipe whose members are personally responsible for the production of the drink.

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Unicum

Unicum is a Hungarian herbal liqueur or bitters, drunk as a digestif and apéritif.

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Venice

Venice (Venezia,; Venesia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

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Vermouth

Vermouth is an aromatized, fortified wine flavored with various botanicals (roots, barks, flowers, seeds, herbs, and spices).

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Whisky

Whisky or whiskey is a type of distilled alcoholic beverage made from fermented grain mash.

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White wine

White wine is a wine whose colour can be straw-yellow, yellow-green, or yellow-gold.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apéritif_and_digestif

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