Žalčio Balzamas is herbal liqueur made by Lithuanian company UAB Lietuviškas Midus. It have been working since 1959 at Skatliskes. The company produce traditional mead (honey wine), which is basically honey and water fermented by yeast. It is said to be oldest alcohol bewerage on mankind, older than wine or beer.…
Havana Club is the biggest rum producer in Cuba and one of the best known rum brandies in the world. It was established at 1934 by Arechabala family. During the Cuba revolution years the distillery was nationalized and the owners escaped to USA or Europe, or was thrown to prison.Nowadays it…
Dooley’s is toffee-cream liqueur made by German family company Waldemar Behn, which was established on the beginning of 20th Century. Dooley’s was invented on 2000 and was first international product of the company. Nowadays they have also Danzka Vodka, Heering Cherry Liqueur and Seaman’s Shot among others.Doole’s is made by premium…
Sierra tequila is owned by German company Borco. It was published at 1981 and after a year it was already most sold tequila in Germany. Due to producer, it nowadays have 87% market share for all sold tequilas in Germany. Also it’s most sold tequila in many other countries in Europe,…
Aperitivo is Luxardo’s counter-traction to Aperol, an enormously popular Italian bitter aperitif. Aperative Luxardo is made by different herb infusions, roots and citrus fruits. Alcohol volume is the same as for Aperol, 11%. Luxardo is more popular from their Maraschino liqueur, which they published at the end of the 19th century…
Gancia wine house was established at 1850 by Carlo Gancia. He was the first italian, who develop sparking wine with traditional champagne method from moscato grapes. Gancia vermouths are well known for concept ‘Classic Italian Aperatif’. The secret recipe have been same from the beginning and consist exotic herbs from the…
Bleu D’Argent comes from Northern-France, Petersbach, close to German border. They named itself as ‘Gentleman’s Gin’, whatever that means. There is 9 different herbs and roots used: juniper, coriander seeds, ginger, lemon- and orange peel, angelica root, lavender, fennel and anis. Distilled on traditional copper still. Purchase price for 70cl bottle…
Ürdimeister (ürdi ~ herb) is a herbal liqueur made by Estonian company Remedia. It was registered in 2007 and took a role model from Jägermeister. In the beginning the sales were quite weak, but after Remedia copied bottle and label design from Jägermeister the sales grew ten times bigger for a…
Bacardi is the biggest family owned alcohol company on the world. It was established at 1982 by Don Facundo Bacardi Masso, who bought a distillery from Santiago de Cuba. Nowadays the production is at Puerto Rico, maturation and bottling in Florida. Bacardi have distilleries also in Spain and India. Carta Negra…
Four Roses Distillery, situated at Kentucky USA, established at 1910. Bought at 1943 by Seagram, Canadian company, who decided to focus to European and Japan markets with Four Roses. So it was not available at USA during 50 years. 2002 Japanese Kirin Brewery bought it from Seagram and increased the production…