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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
In this case, I'm referring to a bottled malt beverage available in a variety of flavors. It has a fairly low alcohol content, and is sold wherever "normal" beer is sold in the US.
They really aren't wine anything, but the term became widespread back in the 80s because Bartles & Jaymes, the most popular brand in some areas of the US, made both actual wine coolers (Gallo, if anyone wants to know) and these malt beverages. The term "wine cooler" became synonymous with almost anything in that category.
There are malt beverage versions of popular drinks like daiquiris, Fuzzy Navel, Pina Colada, Blue Hawaiian, as well as fruit blends like mango-passionfruit and such.
So yeah, much of the time, "wine cooler" isn't a wine cooler at all. Though I do like real wine coolers as well.  |
OK,
think I've got it... We have ready-mixed drinks here with anything from vodka and gin through to Jack Daniels and other nectar of the gods, but we wouldn't refer to them as wine coolers.
We would call an actual wine mixer a "spritzer" usually - low alcohol content but great for that relaxing buzz on a warm summer day as the sun goes down. Shame it's p*ssing it down here at the moment (welcome to the UK summer-time).
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Originally Posted by maianhvk
or it may goes with the other name 'alcopop'.
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That's the word I was searching for