Eaux-De-Vie de Fruits

Question 1

What means Eau-de-Vie?

Answer 1

*Alcoholic beverage distilled from fruit other than grapes.

Question 2

What you know about Calvados?

Answer 2

*Produced in the department of Calvados in the northern France.
*Distilling fermented apple juice (Cider) and fermented pear juice (Perry).

Question 3

Apricot?

Answer 3

*Made from distillation of of fermented apricots.

Question 4

Fraise?

Answer 4

*Made from the distillation of fermented strawberries.

Question 5

Framboise?

Answer 5

*Made from distillation of fermented raspberries

Question 6

Kirsch?

Answer 6

*Made from the distillation of fermented cherries.

Question 7

Mirabelle?

Answer 7

*Made from the distillation of fermented small yellow plums.

Question 8

Slivovits?

Answer 8

*Made from the distillation of fermented plums (Balkan Countrie)

Question 9

How Eaux-de-Vie are referred, and how would you serve it?

Answer 9

*Alcohols blancs & and aged in a glass NOT wood, except Calvaados.
*I will serve them slightly chilled in a cold glass.