Short Drink

A short and small drink.

Siamapple

Is another word for Orange.

Sinaapple

Is another word for Orange.

Single Malt

Also Pure Malt or Unblended Malt. To be found on labels of Malt-Whisky, meaning that the Whisky has been filled into barrels after the distillation without being mixed with any other products neither in the barrel nor while it is filled up into bottles. This expression guarantees that the product contained is of only one vinetage and one distillation.

Sirop d'Erable

Is the French expression of marple syrup.

Slivovitz

The noblest Slivovitz is distilled from Pocegaca-plums. This kind of plum is especially fleshy, thick, juice-rich and full in aroma. In Serbian the plum is called "Sljiva" and Yugoslavia is something like a "Mother Country" of the distilled plum water, the Slivovitz. Every distiller is allowed to call its plum-water Slivovitz, when certain prescriptions of spelling are fulfilled. For example, plum water produced in Germany can be sold under the name "Slibowitz", too. Plum-water is distilled in many areas of Europe. Farmers in Steir and Tyrol produce "Schligowitz", Tschech farmers produce "Slivowitz" or "Slikowitz", Hungarians call their product "Schirotiza" and Slovenians plum-water is called "Slivooka". In Switzerland "Pflumli-water" is distilled, in the Black Forrest it is "Zwetschge-water" and in Alsass it is called "Quetsch". The trees of the blue plums have to be at least 20 years old. The mash ferments three months in very big barrels and after a second distillation, the storage time in 2,000 litres oak-barrels starts. The distillate removes the colour substances from the wood and turns it into a rye-straw-golden colour. Good Slivovitz is at least eight years old. Hot Slivovitz contains 40 % of alcohol or more, 38 % are lawfully prescribed in Germany.

Smirnoff

Vodka Smirnoff is produced according to a secret procedure from Moskau of the year 1818. The alcohol is filtrated in nine chambers of active charcoal, to reach a very clean and digestible quality. The old company Pierre Smirnoff was main-deliver of the Tsars Alexander III and Nicolaus II from 1886 to 1917. The Vodka won a lot of awards on international exhibitions, like in Philadelphia in 1876, in Paris in 1878 and 1889, in Barcelony in 1888, in Stockholm in 1897 and in Milan in 1906. Today, Smirnoff belongs to the American spirituous liquors Group Heublein in Hartford/ Connecticut. Besides in the US, Vodka Smirnoff is alo produced in France, England, Canada, Mexico, Spain, Italy, South-Africa and Asutralia. It is available in more than 90 countries in the world. Smirnoff is not only the biggest vodka-product, but also one of the biggest spirituous liquors product in the western world. Alcohol content: 40 %.

Soberano

On 1st July 1864, Johann Jacob Sohnlein and his six business partners asked the federal government of Nassau for a permission to found the "Rhinegau Sparkling Wine Factory" in Wiesbaden-Schierstein. On 27th July 1864, they got the permission and already in their first year the sparkling wine sale was pretty successful. Johann Jacob Sohnlein accidentally met Richard Wagner that year. Because of the meeting with the composer Sohnlein had the idea of calling his sparkling wine "Rhinegold"; therefore in 1865, the first German sparkling wine product was born. Sohnlein bought the wine of his Rhinegold Sparkling Wine from Prince from Metternich's main castle Johannisberg. In the 70's of the 19th century, the German sparkling wine industry had its first boom. In 1900, counsellor of comerce Friedrich (Fredric) Wilhelm (William) Sohnlein took over the management of the vinter's business. In 1912, his father Johann Jacob Sohnlein died. The following years, the company grew despite war and inflation. The plants were improved and expanded. The production process was improved and refined several times. A big change was made in 1926: On 1st July the banderole tax was introduced, being one Reichsmark per 1/ 1 bottle of sparkling wine. The sale dropped because of the now more expensive product, but in 1927/ 28, it went up again until the economic crisis in 1929. The lowest point of the company was in 1931, with a production of only 210,000 bottles. In December 1933, the sparkling wine tax fee was abolished. In 1934, Sohnlein made a contract with the castle of Johannisberg, which still regulates the relation of the two Houses together today. The start of the war in September 1939 reintroduced the sparkling wine tax. Again, it was one Reichsmark per 1/ 1 bottle and in November 1941 it went up to three Reichsmark. Finally, on 1st November 1952, it was abolished and replaced by a sparkling wine tax of one mark per bottle. At that time, the sparkling wine market started all over again; and the raise of the House Sohnlein, too. The production rose from 800,000 bottles in the year 1952 to 4.6 million 1/ 1 bottles in 1958, when the House was taken over from the heirs of Sohnlein by the Oetker-Group. (In 1978, Sohnlein produced more than 40 million bottles.) Available from Sohnlein are: Sparkling Wine products Brillant and Brillant Red Sparkling Wine are offered after being stored for at least nine months; Rhinegold is a dry sparkling wine with an origin description, it is made from Rhine-wines to 100 % according to prescriptions of the wine-law; Red Gold is a mild flowery Red Sparkling Wine, partly made from Rhine-Red-Wines as well; Johann Jacob's Old Excellence Extra Dry is composed from extra chosen Rhinegau-Rieslings; Johann Jacob's Assmannshause's Late-Burgund Red Sparkling Wine is made from the Burgund Vine Pinot Noir, which grows in Assmannshausen.

Soda Water

Drinking water with carbon dioxide (4 g/ kg) filled up airright into siphone bottles or containers or 0,2 Liter bottles with a crown cork or 1 Liter bottles with a screw cap. Soda water may also be produced in Heimsiphone-bottles with carbon dioxide.

Soft Drink

New American expression describing non alcoholic drinks. Opposite: Hard Drinks.

Solera

This is the name of a several years Sherry-mature-procedure, where younger wines are blended with older ones again and again.

Sommerlier

Expression of wine-waiter.

Soothe

It is biological preserved white egg kept in sprayers, produced in America, similar to Frothee.

Sorbetfruit

Is another word for Cherimoya.

Sour Dates

Is another word for Tamarind.

Sour lime

Is the English expression of Limette.

Sour Mash

To be found in the Bourbon-Whiskey-production, meaning that parts of fermented mash together with a rest amount of yeast will remain to start the next fermantation.

Souza

Souza Port comes from one of the oldest and most reputed Port-Wine Houses. Its name comes a world-known wine-expert from Portugal, Alcino Vieira de Souza. Souza Superior Tawny Port is a fine, semi-dry Port, its quality is the result of a careful choice of vintages and regions, an harmonic mixture of the Cuvées and storage in barrels for years.

Sparkling

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