Smooth and pleasantly fruity-sweet, with a fine wood barrel note – that's the taste of the popular Old Varieties. Decades of experience, love for fruit, joy in the art of distilling and a lot of patience enable us to produce these exceptional specialities. Discover all eight Old Varieties, including Old Apricot, Old Williams Pear and Old Forest Raspberry. Learn more here »
Smooth and pleasantly fruity-sweet, with a fine wood note – that's the taste of the popular Old Varieties. Decades of experience, love for fruit, joy in the art of distilling and a lot of patience enable us to produce these exceptional specialities. Discover all eight Old Varieties, including Old Apricot, Old Williams Pear and Old Forest Raspberry. Learn more here »
As with all schnapps from the Prinz Distillery, we use only the best fully ripe fruit for our Old Varieties. Other indispensable ingredients for our specialities are four generations of experience, a passion for fruit, processes developed in-house and modern technology.
The aroma-preserving fruit distillates are allowed to mature under best conditions. It sometimes takes eight years before a fruit is bottled as an Old Variety, and you can taste the quality and care in every sip!
The delightful fruity sweetness is provided by dried fruit extracts which are produced by the master distiller using Prinz's special process. Made from the same fruit as the distillates, these extracts are used to refine the distillates into our exceptional Old Varieties.
The time taken to mature gives each variety not only a fine wood note but also a characteristic amber shimmer, making each full bottle a pleasure to look at. You will immediately recognise the Old Varieties: traditional swing-top bottles with amber-coloured joy inside.
How many Old Varieties are
available from Prinz?
You can enjoy our Old Varieties in eight different fruit varieties:
All matured at the Prinz Distillery for your enjoyment.
Why do Prinz Old Varieties taste so smooth?
With an alcohol content of 41% vol, Old Varieties show the intensive varietal character of the fruits. There are also three special elements that ensure that this schnapps speciality tastes so smooth. First, the distillates are distilled in a particularly gentle vacuum distillation process. Then they are left to mature for a long time. At the appropriate time, the master distiller refines them with dried fruit extract, which is what gives this schnapps its subtle, sweet note. This means that the Old Varieties taste much smoother than a traditional fruit spirit.
What is so special about Prinz's dried
fruit?
As with all other ingredients, we only use the best fully ripe fruit for our dried fruit. After quality control at Obsthof Leiblachtal, the fruit is immediately washed and gently dried in our drying facility.
You can even buy the tasty dried fruit in our in-house Distillery Shop in Hörbranz. Unsurprisingly, this nutrient-rich snack tastes especially great with a schnapps!
Williams-Christ pears are gently dried
How to best enjoy Prinz Old Varieties
It is best to drink our Old Varieties from a Prinz Schnapps Glass with a stem – at a temperature of 17 to 21 °C.
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