CORDIALS

This is a connoisseur's treasure. Robert Parker said: "Never have I been so enchanted by a before drink as this." That sounds like fair praise to me. Christian Drouin Coeur de Lion Pommeau de Normandie is a delicate blend of young Calvados with un-fermented apple juice. After fortifying the apple juice (with the Calvados) it is aged a minimum age of 14 months in oak barrels (for the appellation rules.); Christian Drouin's Pommeau is aged 3 or 4 years to achieve a more integrated balance with no alcohol showing. The nose reveals an ebullience of fruit characteristics, starting at concentrated apple juice, blossoms soaked in honey and evolving to caramel and dark wood. The taste displays the aromas, but it's not as sweet as implied by the scents and eminently much more complex. It also shows delicate spices and herbs dancing in the juicy sweetness— so delicious. The finish carries all this in a clean, full and lingering display. Try this neat, chilled, with food, before food, with bleu cheese, melons, dark chocolate... you get the idea.

Cinzano Dry Vermouth is off-dry and an inviting pale yellow. The flavours are vibrant and alive with notes of aromatic herbs. It's round, carefree and tempting.

Creole Shrub: In making Creole Shrubb liqueur, Rhum Clement uses white Curacao orange peels that are sun-bleached because they feel that they have an unmistakable quality. Then they add certain spices in a secret recipe, but vanilla, nutmeg and cloves are some they did disclose to me. The peels and spices are macerated together with their own pure sugar cane syrup and slowly infused and infused into a blend of their white and aged rums. Then the mixture rests for 6-8 weeks in oak casks to let all the flavors come together into a harmonious whole.

Cointreau, the crystal clear Orange Liqueur, founded in Angers, France, remains one of the world's most distinguished spirits with over 160 years of history. Renowned for its perfect balance of 100% all natural sweet and bitter orange peels, Cointreau has a uniquely refreshing and complex taste. A versatile, 80 proof spirit, Cointreau can be enjoyed as the base spirit in many cocktails, such as the Cointreau Rickey, but is also an essential ingredient in the most popular cocktails including the Margarita, the Cosmopolitan, and the Sidecar. Cointreau won the 2016 Ultimate Spirits Chairman's trophy & seal for "Extraordinary, Ultimate Recommendation."
Appearance: Crystal-clear.
Overall: Intensely zesty, bright sweet and bitter orange. Very refined, clean, with balance.

Cointreau, the crystal clear Orange Liqueur, founded in Angers, France, remains one of the world's most distinguished spirits with over 160 years of history. Renowned for its perfect balance of 100% all natural sweet and bitter orange peels, Cointreau has a uniquely refreshing and complex taste. A versatile, 80 proof spirit, Cointreau can be enjoyed as the base spirit in many cocktails, such as the Cointreau Rickey, but is also an essential ingredient in the most popular cocktails including the Margarita, the Cosmopolitan, and the Sidecar. Cointreau won the 2016 Ultimate Spirits Chairman's trophy & seal for "Extraordinary, Ultimate Recommendation."
Appearance: Crystal-clear.
Overall: Intensely zesty, bright sweet and bitter orange. Very refined, clean, with balance.French orange liqueur

Cointreau, the crystal clear Orange Liqueur, founded in Angers, France, remains one of the world's most distinguished spirits with over 160 years of history. Renowned for its perfect balance of 100% all natural sweet and bitter orange peels, Cointreau has a uniquely refreshing and complex taste. A versatile, 80 proof spirit, Cointreau can be enjoyed as the base spirit in many cocktails, such as the Cointreau Rickey, but is also an essential ingredient in the most popular cocktails including the Margarita, the Cosmopolitan, and the Sidecar. Cointreau won the 2016 Ultimate Spirits Chairman's trophy & seal for "Extraordinary, Ultimate Recommendation."
Appearance: Crystal-clear.
Overall: Intensely zesty, bright sweet and bitter orange. Very refined, clean, with balance.