Sloe-aromatised spirit drink or Pacharán is a spirit drink:

1. (a)

   which has a predominant sloe taste and is obtained by the maceration of sloes ( Prunus spinosa ) in ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin, with the addition of natural extracts of anise and/or distillates of anise;

2. (b)

   which has a minimum alcoholic strength by volume of 25 %;

3. (c)

   for the production of which a minimum quantity of 125 grams of sloe fruits per litre of final product has been used;

4. (d)

   which has sugar content, expressed as invert sugar between 80 and 250 grams per litre of the final product;

5. (e)

   the organoleptic characteristics, colour and taste of which are provided exclusively by the fruit used and the anise.

The term ‘ Pacharán ’ may be used as a sales denomination only when the product is manufactured in Spain. When the product is manufactured outside Spain, ‘ Pacharán ’ may only be used to supplement the sales denomination ‘Sloe-aromatised spirit drink’, provided that it is accompanied by the words: ‘produced in …’, followed by the name of the F2... country of the manufacture.

F3In the second paragraph, in relation to the United Kingdom, ‘country of the manufacture’ means the United Kingdom as a whole and does not mean England, Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales individually.