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> Brandy is a spirit made out of wine. Fruit brandy just uses things besides grapes. Not really. "Fruit brandy" that people traditionally make and drink in thi
by babuskov 7y ago
> Brandy is a spirit made out of wine. Fruit brandy just uses things besides grapes.
Not really. "Fruit brandy" that people traditionally make and drink in this region is made directly from fruit, without the vine step. There is a brand of it that's made from vine called "vinjak", but that's not the traditional drink everyone is drinking here.
You can also make rakia directly from grapes. That's called "loza" and it hasn't got anything to do with vine.
- boomboomsubban 7y agoYeah, I am grossly oversimplifying things with my definition. For these belts, "wine" is used to describe anything made from fruit. They also mention cider drinking regions of the UK as potentially part of the wine belt. Really there should probably be a fourth belt covering SE Europe, but as these are only used for informal discussion it doesn't really matter.