Is whisky wine? [closed]

Solution 1:

Without further qualification, wine is fermented from grape juice while fruit wine uses other fruit: cherries, elderberries, dandelions, even pineapple and bananas.

Whisky/whiskey is distilled from fermented grain mash. Both wine and whisky are aged in wooden barrels, but only whisky is distilled. Fortified wines such as sherry or port add grape spirit (brandy) at the end of the wine fermentation process (sherry), or before the process is complete (port), which prevents further sugar turning to alcohol.

Rum is made from sugar cane, and vodka, at least traditionally, from potatoes. Thus they are not types of whisky.

One reason your Chinese friend might be confused is an alcoholic drink popular in Korea, Japan, and China which is called plum wine in English. This “wine” is basically alcohol infused with fruit flavor and begins with already distilled spirits. The closest Western equivalent would be fruit brandy, though the process is different.