General Standard for Food Additives - CODEX Alimentarius

CODEX STAN 192-1995 Page 46 of 287
14.2.5 Mead:
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Alcoholic liquor made from fermented honey, malt and spices, or just of honey. Includes honey wine.
14.2.6 Distilled spirituous beverages containing more than 15% alcohol:
Includes all distilled spirituous beverages derived from grain (e.g., corn, barley, rye, wheat), tubers (e.g.,
potato), fruit (e.g., grapes, berries) or sugar cane that contain greater than 15% alcohol. Examples include:
aperitifs, brandy (distilled wine), cordials, liqueurs (including emulsified liqueurs), bagaceira belha (grappa
from Portugal; bagaceira is a drink distilled from bagaço (pressed skins, seeds and stalks of the grapes)), eau
de vie (a brandy), gin, grappa (Italian brandy distilled from the residues of pressed wine), marc (brandy
distilled from grape or apple residue), korn (grain spirit (schnapps) of Germany, usually derived from rye
(Roggen), sometimes from wheat (Weizen) or both (Getreide); also labelled as Kornbrantt or
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Kornbranttwein) , mistela (also mistelle (France) and jeropico (South Africa); unfermented grape juice
fortified with grape alcohol), ouzo (Greek spirit drink flavoured with aniseed), rum, tsikoudia (grape marc
spirit from Crete), tsipouro (grape marc spirit from certain regions in Greece), wienbrand (style of grape
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brandy devised by Hugo Asbach, Rudesheim, Germany; literally, “burnt wine”) , cachaça (Brazilian liquor
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made from fermented distilled sugar cane juice) , tequila, whiskey, and vodka.
14.2.7 Aromatized alcoholic beverages (e.g., beer, wine and spirituous cooler-type beverages, low-alcoholic
refreshers):
Includes all non-standardized alcoholic beverage products. Although most of these products contain less than
15% alcohol, some traditional non-standardized aromatized products may contain up to 24% alcohol.
Examples include aromatized wine, cider and perry; aperitif wines; americano; batidas (drinks made from
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cachaça, fruit juice or coconut milk and, optionally, sweetened condensed milk) ; bitter soda and bitter
vino; clarea (also claré or clary; a mixture of honey, white wine and spices; it is closely related to hippocras,
which is made with red wine); jurubeba alcoholic drinks (beverage alcohol product made from the Solanum
paniculatum plant indigenous to the north of Brazil and other parts of South America); negus (sangria; a hot
drink made with port wine, sugar, lemon and spice); sod, saft, and sodet; vermouth; zurra (in Southern Spain,
a sangria made with peaches or nectarines; also the Spanish term for a spiced wine made of cold or warm
wine, sugar, lemon, oranges or spices); amazake (a sweet low-alcoholic beverages (