Briottet Curacao Bleu (Orange Liqueur) 25% 70cl

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Briottet Curacao Bleu a.k.a. Blue Curacao is an orange flavoured liqueur with a rather exotic, funky bright blue colour.

Blue Curacao is a drink of legend, the blue liquid one always finds at the back of drinks cabinet. The one that no-one knows what to do with and certainly not one you want to mix up with Orange Curacao or Triple Sec Curacao in cocktails or recipes, unless you are looking for that particular blue colour. Be warned it can go very sludgy in colour if you don’t have the right recipe.

Maison Briottet is a family business, founded in 1836, and has been run by the 6th generation of the Briottet family, Claire and Vincent, since 2014. The Maison is located in the centre of the town of Dijon in the Burgundy wine-growing region. Originally, the family were negociants of Burgundy wine, involved with ageing, blending, bottling and selling the wines. Following the development, and massive popularity of the Blanc Cassis Aperitif (white wine with Crème de Cassis also known as a Kir), in the 1900s, the company progressively focused its activities on producing fruit crèmes, liquors, brandies and Marcs de Bourgogne.

Maison Briottet maintains a very high level of quality. It is the selection of the ripest fruit, locally sourced where possible, from the most suitable cultivars that provides for the finest flavours. The first step on the ladder in the process is contracting the right growers to produce the finest, best quality, ripe fruit. Then, at the headquarters, the fruits undergo carefully observed maceration with very pure neutral alcohol and blending with the correct proportion of sugars to achieve the balance between fruit flavour, sweetness, acidity and alcohol to create top of the range crèmes and liqueurs.

Briottet Blue Curacao, like its Curacao cousins mentioned above, is made by double distillation of dried peel of bitter oranges grown on the island of Curacao. The oranges are of the small bitter Lahara variety. The resulting clear liquid is sweetened and an artificial colour, in this case Brilliant Blue FCF, is added. This brilliant blue colour makes it a very unusual cocktail ingredient and it is an essential for all sorts of blue cocktails. 

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