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Non grape wines? You surely mean liquors, schnapps,distills of berries, ... but wine?

E.g., Patxaran, a distilled of blackthorns macerated in a mix of anise spirit and the spirit of the pomace of the grape (I hear that the percentages vary), and sometimes cinnamon and coffee beans, made in the north of Navarre and Aragon.



A nice presentation above, but you find more often this classic presentation, for home-made patxaran.




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