Midori liqueur
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Muskmelon
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-flavored cordial
Liqueur
A liqueur is an alcoholic beverage that has been flavored with fruit, herbs, nuts, spices, flowers, or cream and bottled with added sugar. Liqueurs are typically quite sweet; they are usually not aged for long but may have resting periods during their production to allow flavors to marry.The...
made by Suntory
Suntory
is a Japanese brewing and distilling company group. Established in 1899, it is one of the oldest companies in the distribution of alcoholic beverages in Japan. Its business has expanded to other fields, and the company now offers everything from soft drinks to sandwich chains...
. It is manufactured in Japan
Japan
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, Mexico
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and France
France
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, though it was made only in Japan
Japan
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until 1987. It was first concocted in 1978, with a launch party held in New York
New York
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's famous Studio 54
Studio 54
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Midori is usually 20-21% alcohol
Alcohol
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by volume. The name comes from midori
Midori
Midori is the Japanese word for "green" and may refer to:- Places :* Midori, Gunma* Midori-ku, Chiba* Midori-ku, Nagoya* Midori-ku, Sagamihara* Midori-ku, Saitama* Midori-ku, Yokohama- People :...
, the Japanese word
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
for "green".
As it is extremely sweet, Midori is generally used in a mixed drink or cocktail
Cocktail
A cocktail is an alcoholic mixed drink that contains two or more ingredients—at least one of the ingredients must be a spirit.Cocktails were originally a mixture of spirits, sugar, water, and bitters. The word has come to mean almost any mixed drink that contains alcohol...
; for example, a Japanese slipper
Japanese slipper
A Japanese slipper is a cocktail made from Midori, Cointreau, and lemon juice. It is an International Bartenders Association Official Cocktail...
. It is usually used in a range of long drinks - with lemonade
Lemonade
Lemonade is a lemon-flavored drink, typically made from lemons, water and sugar.The term can refer to three different types of beverage:...
, fresh lemon
Lemon
The lemon is both a small evergreen tree native to Asia, and the tree's ellipsoidal yellow fruit. The fruit is used for culinary and non-culinary purposes throughout the world – primarily for its juice, though the pulp and rind are also used, mainly in cooking and baking...
juice, lime juice, pineapple
Pineapple
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juice or orange
Orange (fruit)
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juice. Sour flavours are often used to balance its sweetness
Sweetness
Sweetness is one of the five basic tastes and is almost universally regarded as a pleasurable experience. Foods rich in simple carbohydrates such as sugar are those most commonly associated with sweetness, although there are other natural and artificial compounds that are sweet at much lower...
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Midori manufactured in France is sweeter than the original Japanese formula.
Trivia
In the 2011 film Fright NightFright Night (2011 film)
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, David Tennant's
David Tennant
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character Peter Vincent consumes copious amounts of Midori.