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- Beverages containing wine to which ingredients such as fruit juice or other flavorings have been added
- Beverages containing distilled alcohol and sweet liquids such as fruit juices or other flavourings
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The Coca-Cola Company's formula for Coca-Cola syrup, which bottlers combine with carbonated water to create the company's flagship cola soft drink, is a closely guarded trade secret. Company founder Asa Candler initiated the veil of secrecy that surrounds the formula in 1891 as a publicity, marketing, and intellectual property protection strategy. While several recipes, each purporting to be the authentic formula, have been published, the company maintains that the actual formula remains a secret, known only to a very few select employees.
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Various flavors of anyżówka or anise-flavoured vodkas if not so popular in Polish noble manors in the 17th CE as other well-known nalewkas, still were popularised probably until the beginning of the 20th CE. Because of their typical sweet taste other brands were preferred over them. After the Great War they have not been re-introduced by commercial producers and nowadays if exquisite, remain forgotten and no one has decided to produce them apart from "Nalewki i inne".
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Belvedere Vodka is a brand of Polish rye vodka produced and distributed by LVMH. It is named after Belweder, the Polish presidential palace in Warsaw, whose illustration appears on its bottles. It is produced in Żyrardów, Poland.
Soplica is one of the older brands of Polish pure and flavoured vodka, having been first produced in 1891. Although the origins of vodka in Poland can be traced back to as early as the 8th century, Soplica is one of the older industrially produced brands of vodka in the country. Żubrówka, for example, is based on a much older recipe than Soplica but exists as an industrially produced brand only since the 1920s.
References
- ↑ (in Polish) Jan Cieślak (1999) "Domowy wyrób win" , Warsaw,Watra
Jan Rogala (2003). Nalewki: Stare i nowe przepisy, czyli jak mocny alkohol uczynić szlachetnym (in Polish). Warsaw, Ex Libris. p. 104. ISBN 83-89351-86-2.Jan Rogala (2003). Nalewki zdrowotne, czyli 102 przepisy na alkohol który wspomaga organizm. Warsaw, Baobab. p. 108. ISBN 83-89642-00-X.
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