Drink Question

[Bluebell72]

I am planning to crack open my home-made sloe gin v.soon.

Now, if you have cassis, and put champagne in it, it's a Kir Royale, if I put Prosecco into the sloe gin, does it become a Kir Sloe, a Sloe Kir, or something else?
Someone I work with says it's a cocktail by the name of 'Sloe and Steady'.

Any ideas???

 

[Arch]

I have no idea, but when we where in France last year at this place:

http://villeprouve.pagesperso-orange.fr/bb/gb/accueil.htm

we were served Paillot, the local equivalent. I think it was Elderberry liquer, in cider. Gorgeous!

 

[djmc]

Kir is normally dry white wine with Cassis fruit liqueur. If you ask for Kir you are sometimes asked "Kir cassis?" as it is possible to use other fruit liqueurs such as mur(blackberry) or pêche(peach). Sloes are prunelles, so you could say Kir prunelles. All these are made by soaking the fruit in alcohol with sugar to make a sweet alcoholic syrup rather than fermenting the fruit to make a type of wine and then distilling that to make a drink such as kirsch or sliwowich which are made of cherries and plums respectively. Kir is very popular in Brittany, mostly with cassis, sometimes with fizzy wine (not normally with real champagne more likely with Saumur). After the Sunday morning ride the members of our cycling club normally drink kir as an apero before going back for dinner. "Midi moins kir" they call it, a pun on midi moins quart or quarter to twelve.

 

[Arch]

My Mum had her first experience of Kir in a little restaurant in Brugges. I was having a beer, because, well, it was our first night in Belgium, and she didn't want beer, but wanted something refreshing, but not a whole bottle of wine. The waitress explained a Kir, and she was spot on. My Mum is a lady of frugal means, and a Kir is now one of her prime ideas of a luxury on a special occasion.

I think a Kir Normande is cassis in cidre?

Oh, I want to be back in France!

 

[Bluebell72]

Thanks for your replies - cassis in cider sounds beautiful, and then I realise that the anglicised e-numbered, junk food version is the drink of choice for many a sixth former - cider and black(currant)!

 

[Melonfish]

oooh, what you planning with your sloes?
re-top with sherry or you going to de-stone and cover in chocolate?
i'm thinking of doing both tbh. i've got some sloe gin i made in dec i need to drink

 

[TheDoctor]

On a fine point of technical interest, kir was invented in burgundy by adding creme de cassis to Aligote wines. Aligote (the 'other' white grape in Burgundy, the main one being Chardonnay) has a tendency to be a bit thin and acidic, so adding something sweet and fruity makes it rather more palatable.
Adding cassis to a red wine makes a Cardinal.