The common name 'blackthorn' also references these and the shrub's very dark bark.Īccording to Wikipedia, "The word commonly used for the fruit, "sloe" comes from Old English slāh. The name 'spinosa' is a Latin term meaning thorny or prickly, a reference to the shrub's thornlike spur shoots. The flowers have five creamy-white petals. The shrub grows throughout the British Isles and is commonly seen in hedgerows growing to a height of around 5 metres (16 ft) with oval, long broad leaves which have a serrated margin. It has also been naturalised in New Zealand and eastern North America. Prunus spinosa is a deciduous shrub or small tree native to Europe, western Asia and parts of northwest Africa.
In Germany and neighbouring countries, schlehenlikör is made by infusing sloe drupes and sugar in vodka, gin or rum, sometimes also with herbs and spices. Annual sales of pacharán are around 8 million litres. In Spain, pacharán, a light reddish-brown sweet digestive liqueur (25-30% alc./vol.) from the northern province of Navarra, is made by the maceration of the sloe berries or "pacharanes" in alcohol to which aniseed essence is added. In Italy, the sloe drupes are infused with sugar and spices in neutral spirit to produce bargnolino (or sometimes prunella), a sweet reddish liqueur (40-45% alc./vol.). The French equivalent, crème de Prunelle liqueur (20-30% alc./vol.) is made by infusion and maceration of the fruit in neutral grape spirit. There are numerous other similar liqueurs made across Europe and other parts of the world where the shrub is native. Sloe drupes (sloe berries), the fruit of the blackthorn shrub have been infused in alcohol for centuries, most famously in England where they are steeped in gin with added sugar to make sloe gin liqueur.
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