406 WINE LAW - by adding flavourings, sugars or other sweetening products listed in point 3 of Annex I of Regulation (EC) No 110/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2008, and/or other agricultural products and/or foodstuffs to ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin and/or to distillates of agricultural origin and/or spirit drinks within the meaning of this Regulation, ii) Either by mixing a spirit drink with one or more of the following products: - other spirits, and/or - ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin or distillates of agricultural origin, and/or - other alcoholic beverages, and/or drinks. However, the drinks falling within the Combined Nomenclature (CN) codes are not considered spirit drinks, these are: malt beers (2203); wines made from fresh grapes, including fortified wines; grape musts (2204); Vermouth and other wines made from fresh grapes flavoured by plants or aromatic substances (2205); other fermented beverages (e.g. cider, perry, mead); fermented drink mixes and fermented drink mixes with non-alcoholic beverages, not elsewhere specified or included (2206); and denature ethyl alcohol, with an alcohol content, by volume equal to or greater than 80% vol; ethyl alcohol and brandies, denatured, with any alcohol content (2207). Moreover, if the generic definitions of “spirit drink” and “agricultural distillate” were seen above, it is now important to concretise the different specific and legally defined categories of spirit drinks, doing as only the drink (liquid) and not as to their possible origin (a different problem that can and should arise from the respective Denominations or Indications of Origin of some of these spirit drinks). Therefore, we have: 1) Rum a) It is understood by rum: i) A spirit drink produced exclusively by alcoholic fermentation and distillation, either from molasses or syrups from the production of cane sugar, or from the sugar cane juice itself, distilled at less than 96% vol. the distillate has noticeably the specific organoleptic characteristics of the rum, or
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