LIQUEURS AND CHAMPAGNES

ALiquoris onealcoholic beveragefresh (or dried), often flavored tofruits,herbs, orspices, and sometimes with flavour tocream.

Historically, derived from themedicinal herbsusually prepared bymonks, as theBenedictine. Liqueurs were made inItalySince the13th century.

Some liqueurs are prepared byinfusionof certainWoodsfruits,oflowers, inwateroalcohol,Brandy,ethyl alcoholand addingsugar, etc. Others are made bydistillationagentsaromatic. The distinction between liqueur andalcoholic beverageIt is not simple, especially because nowadays many alcoholic drinks are available with sweet flavors. However flavoured alcoholic beverages are not prepared by infusion