Tablespoon

Big spoon to eat. Also used to describe measurement (short: tbs) in English-Cocktail-book. Is the same like 15 grams or 1,5 cl.

Taittinger

Taittinger in Reims belongs to the most traditional Champagne Houses. Its history dates back to 1734, when Jacques Fourneaux founded the company. The Taittinger-Family took over the management of the House after World War I. The reputed and world wide represented company is called "Taittinger-compagnie Commerciale et Viticole Champenoise, Reims" today. Guy Taittinger is the manager. A hotel-group is linked to the company. When the father of the today's owners, Piere-Charles Taittinger (1887-1965) ran the company, the company raised qickly. Bound by tradition, Pierre-Charles expanded the former castle of "the Dukes from Champagne" from the 13th century, situated in the centre of Reims, to a guest house of his company. He also named the Taittinger best product "Comtes de Champagne". In 1932, he expanded the vineyard possession by buying "Château de la Marquetterie", which is situated south of Epernay and belonged to King Ludwig XV. In former times. Taittinger owns 230 hectares of vineyard today and is therefore third in the hierarchy of champagne producers. About 80 years ago, heavy, sweet champagnes were most consumed. They were producer from the red Pinot-grape, which was pressed white, like it is still done today. They also harmonised very good with heavy French cuisine of that time. When there was a change to lighter cuisine at the turn of the century, slightly bitter, light and especially acid poor champagne was favoured, like the wines made from the Chardonnay-grape. Pierre-Charles Taittinger realised this development early and influenced it in a big deal. He grew Chardonnay in bigger amounts, which caused the wanted flavour of the Champagne. Chardonnay-grapes are not that productive, therefore Champagne is fairly more expensive to produce than Pinot-grapes. There is one strict rule for Taitting's products: Only cider of the first press is used. The qualitative less good second press is exchanged with Chardonnay-grapes of made friend-companies. 100 % Chardonnay-grapes are used to produce the top-product of the House "Comtes de Champagne", all other products are made from 50 % Chardonnay and 50 % Pinot. The champagnes of the standard product "Taittinger Brut" are stored for three years, Vintage Champagne is stored five years and "Comtes de Champagne" for six years. The House uses the big, by now world famous, chalk cellars, which were built from the 4th to 13th century and which belonged to Abbey St. Nicaise once. Available by Taittinger in Germany are: Demi-Sec, Brut Réserve, Brut Vintage, Comtes de Cgampagne, Rosé Brut Vintage and Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs Brut Vintage. The Champagnes "Comtes de Champagne" are filled up into special bottles. Their elegant shape is a copy of the proven oldest sparkling wine bottle-shape from the 18th century.

Talisker

In 1830, Dailuaine-Talisker Distillers Ltd. Was founded, which produces the 12 years old Single Malt Scotch Whisky "The Golden Spirit of the Isle of Skye" (43 %). It is the only whisky-distillery on this in north-west situated island. A reason for the good reputation of Talisker Malt Whisky is the quality of the short-stalked, but fine and seed-rich barley from the soil of Lothains, Morays and Bantfshire. It contains an extremly high amount of protein. Talisker gets its special charcter through kilning of barley above sulphuourus peat-fire, added through heath bush, beech chips and saw dust of birch, marple and alder. This way, the brown-malt produced from barley, is impregnated with specific aromas, which can be tasted consuming the finished distilled whisky.

Tamarillos

These are fruits of the tomato tree, belonging to the family of night shades. It migt originally come from South America. Its fruits are egg-shaped and orange or red, the pulp is rich in vitamins and its taste is sweet-acrid with a slightly aroma of Marillen. If you want to enjoy the fruit fresh, peel it first because the skin of the fruit is very bitter. Today the fruit is growing in many parts of South America, Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and Australia. Tamarillos are used fresh for decoration or as pulp and syrup. Other word for it: Tree Tomato

Tamarind

It is a legume plant (pulse) coming from the tropical part of Africa. Its skin is brown and easy breakable, its pulp is yellowish or brownish and very sour. It is used as mashed fruit or syrup for Tropicanas. Other word for it: Sour Dates.

Tangerine

It is a small orange where you get off the skin easily, sweet, used for decoration and fruit juice.

Tankard

Expression of a many years in wood stored old yellowish brown Port. Tawny = light coloured, straw colour.

Tanqueray

In Finsbury, a suburb of London known for its fresh and clean watewr, Charles Tanqueray started the distillation of gin in 1740. In those years, the so-called Gin-century, many raugh, hard spirituous liquors were produced and sold as Gin. Charles Tanqueray developed a new recipe, because he wanted tp produce a high qualitative Gin. His product was good, got known very fast and was therefore sent to many British colonies. Tanqueray's secret formula still exists today, it is in the possession of his great-great grand child P. John Tanqueray. In 1898 Tanqueray merged with the Gordon Company. In the 40's, American consuments started to discover Tanqueray-Gin, and soon they imported 80 % of the whole production. Until today, the USA is the biggest market of Tanqueray-Gin, which is bottled in very typical bottles built similar to an English hydrant. Tanqueray is No 2 amongst the imported Gins in America. Available in Germany is Tanqueray Distilled English Gin - Special dry having an alcohol content of 43 %.

Taylor's

The port-wine House Taylor, Fladgate & Yeatman, founded in Oporto in 1692, is very famous for its vintage-wines. The history of the big House dates back to Job Bearsley, whose son Peter was the first Engflish, who discovered the region of Alto Douro being a wine-shopper. His brother Bartholomew bought the first possession in Douro, the "Casa Dos Alambiques" close to Régua, which belongs to taylor's today. The Bearsley-Family was linked to the company until 1806. In 1808 Mister Camo joined the company. He was American, the only one ever becoming a partner in an Oporto-Export-House. The first Taylor entered the company in 1816, the first Fladgate in 1837 and the first Yeatman in 1844. Since these days, the name remained unchanged. Today, the house is run by Alastair Robertson, Huyshe Bower, Bruce Guimaraens and Jeremy Bull. Since 1894, the famous "Quinta de Vargellas2 is in possession of Taylor's. In 1973, two further Quintas in the Alto Douro region were bought, which have supplied the wines for the Taylor's Vintage Ports since the beginning of the last century. These wines have a very good reputation. Exported to germany are: Taylor's Ruby Port and Tawny Port - 10 Years Old.

Tchaika

Tchaika is a mild Vodka produced in the West. It has a Russian name Tchaika (=gull). The design of the bottle is also shaped by typical Russian elements. But the Vodka comes from France. It is produced from the House Moët-Hennessy in Cognac. This relativly new Vodka is a rarity on the market: it is not a fruit-, but a wine import. Moët-Hennessy worked on this product for many years. After the idea to produce in France, was accepted from the company's management, a specialists-team was sent to the Ukraine to learn the Russian production methods while staying for months now and again. Long testings followed, until the Vodka of the french House reached its today known quality. Tchaika fulfils all demands asked for a first.class vodka, whereby the care of the distillation and filtration is most important for the quality. Tchaika is a grain-distillate from purest wheat. The distillate is filtrated about eight times above selected coal-types to get the absolutly neutral, smooth taste, which is typicak for vodka. Alcohol content: 40 %.

Teacher's

William Teacher founded his company in 1830, at the age of 19. The reason of foundation was a licence he got to open a "Schnapps Shop" for beer, wine and spirituous liquors. It was the start of a successful career: At the age of 40, Teacher owned 18 shops, which were the biggest shop-chain in Glasgow. He served generous portions of whisky for three pence, a bottle cost about two Shillings or half a Crone, depending on quality. And he always served his whisky pure. When his single-trade was flowering, he started in the wholesale business: He produced bigger amounts of blended whisky according to the wishes of his customers. One of his blends was so excellent, that he registered it as "Teacher's Highland Cream" in 1884. The business was successful and in 1866, an office was open in Manchester, ten years later another office opening followed in London. William Teacher died in 1876, and two of his eleven children took over business. In 1873, Teacher's also started to make an effort for the export-market. It started with a ship-load to New Zealand. In 1903, the first shipping load went to the US. In 1891, Teacher's built its own distillery near Ardmore in Aberdeenshire. In 1960, it also bought the in 1826 founded 'Glendronach Distillery', which was one of the oldest registered distilleries of Scotland. Most of the Glendronach whisky is used for blending, only a part of it is sold as Single Malt on the market. In 1913, Teacher's introduced the first self-opening cork. Until that day all bottles had been closed like wine bottles with a wine-cork, and a corkscrew was necessary to open the bottle. In 1949, Teacher's became a joint-stock company. Teacher's is the biggest independent whisky company, still controlled by the descendants of the founder. Teacher's offers following products in Germany: the standard quality Highland Cream (40 %), the top product Royal Highland 12 Years Old de Luxe Blended Scotch Whisky (43 %) and furthermore The Glendronach Single Malt Scotch Whisky 12 Years Old (43 %).

Teaspoon

Small spoon often used for having tea and sugar. Measurement (short: tsp) in English- Cocktail-books. Is about 5 grams or 0,5 cl.

Tequila

The national drink of Mexico, Tequila, got its name from a town of the State Jalisco. Tequila is produced from the trunk of the Maguey-Agave. This blue-greenish shinning cactus-type is also called "Mezcal-Azul" (Blue Cactus). The word Mezcal comes from Metl, the Indian word for Agave. Often Mexican drinks, like Pulque, Mezcal and Tequila are mixed up. All three are made ofrom the same basic product , the Agave; but Pulque is the alcoholic liquuid, produced after the fermentation of Agave juice and drunk fresh. Mezcal are all Agave's spirits, therefore Tequila is also a Mezcal. But a Tequila is only a product, which is produced from only one type of Agave, which is the Maguey-Agave from Jalisco and its neighbouring State Nayarit. Tequila is colourless at first, like all other distillates. It is stored in wax-treated containers or oak barrels. Tequila stored in barrels gets a light yellow colour, which gets more and more intensive the longer it is stored (four years the most). Alcohol content: 40 to 45 %.

Terry

The history of the Family de Terry, known for its Sherries and Brandies, dates back in England to 1066. While Queen Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603) was ruling the country, the de Terrys emigrated from South-Ireland to Spain. A few members of the Family have lived in the heart of the Sherry region, in Puerto de Santa Maria, since the 17th century. Today, the family owns about 500 hectares of vineyards and about 40,000 square metres of wine-cellars.Available from de Terry in Germany are: Fino, Amontillado, Oloroso and Cream. Around 1880, de Terry started producing brandy. Special care and storage in oak barrels for years caused the full, round taste and the dark colour of De-Terry-Products. Three brandies of de Terry are available in Germany: "Centenario" (38 %), the biggest product of the House and Terry "1900" (38 %), a higher quality. These products are sold in gold-cord-covered bottles. A top product is sold in a satin bottle, this is Gran Reserva "Terry I" (40 %).

Texier

The wine-distillery Texier was founded in Bingen at the river Rhine in 1887. It has experience in the wine-distillation production for years. The best distillation wines of the House come from France, they are used to produce Texier Extra Old, which is distilled according to the cognac-way and stored in oak barrels. Texier Extra Old has an age-certificate, which says, that the 38 % brandy was stored much longer than prescribed by law.

The Antiquary

The Anitquary 12 Years Old is a Scotch Whisky Mixture of highest quality. It was introduced by J. the local consultion book (reference book) of the post office says, that he had opened a shop in Edinburgh in 1857. Around 1860, John's brother William Blackworth Harthe became his partner. There are no exact signs, when Harthe sold "the Antiquary" for the first time. But hardly readable copies of an old correspondence book say, that Harthe already started very early to produce good Blend and Scotch Whiskies. In 1964, William Sunderson & Son Ltd., producer of the world-known "Vat 69", was asked to take care of the commercial and sale of Antiquary. In 1966, the carafe-bottle was introduced. "The Antiquary" is said to be one of the best De-Luxe-Whiekies in the world. Alcohol content: 40 %.

The Glendronach

The Glendronach Distillery was founded in 1826 and is said to be one of the oldest registered distilleries in Scotland. The name comes from the river Ronach. In 1960, it was taken over by Wm. Teacher & Sons Ltd., a company, which was founded by William Teacher in Glasgow in 1830. Available in Germany is: The Glendronach Single Malt Scotch Whisky 12 Years Old (43 %).

Tia Maria

Tia Maria (Tia = aunty) is a Blue Mountain Coffee, Jamaica Rum, Cocoa, Vanilla and herbs produced sweet coffee liqueur. It comes from the Caribbean Island Jamaica. Romance adventure-stories are told about the origin of the recipe: Spanish families ruled Jamaica, which was disvovered by Columbus in 1494. In the 17th century, the English conquered the island. Many Spanish fled taking as much as they could carry of their belongings. One of them was Tia Maria, a slave of rich people. She saved besides valuable family-jewlery, an old pergament with the liqueur-recipe for her mastress while the muddle of the escape. It had been passed on from generation to generation. The liqueur, which was named "Tia Maria", in honour of the slave, was only produced for the need of the family. Centuries later , Dr. Kenneth Leigh Evans, a popular academic, doctor and gourmet, tried a liqueur while he was staying at a friend's house, which fazinated him. He got to know from the old family recipe and the liqueur, which could only be produced in small amounts, because it did not last very long. Evans experimented with the recipe until he got a product, which could last longer. Then he founded a trading society (trading company) and started to sell "Tia Maria" in a big deal. The 31 % coffee-liqueur is exported to 120 countries in the world.

Tom Dooley

Tom Dooleyis a Straight Bourbon Whiskey from Kentucky. Its round, piquant bouquet and mild taste are results of a careful selection of grain, professional distillation and a ripening time of six years in white-oak barrels. Alcohol content: 40 %.