Location: Home > food > Liqueur Notes: Cointreau Liqueur
Liqueur Notes: Cointreau LiqueurPosted Dec 9th 2006 1:34PM by Jonathan M. ForesterFiled under: Lush Life, Raves & Reviews, France, Spirits, Liquor Cabinet, LiqueursCointreau Liqueur is 40%abv / 80 proof and comes in a square glass bottle. This perfectly clear spirit is of the Triple Sec style of orange liqueurs. It has a very light and clean body with an aroma that is very simple to describe. Just clean and sharp oranges with alcohol. The flavor is not very sweet for a liqueur, just the very refined, mild, and clean taste of sweet and bitter orange zest, nothing more. The perfect triple sec for when all you want is the essence of oranges. The taste has a very long and surprising finish that stays on your tongue for ages, and actually seems to get sweeter and more complex over several minutes.Cointreau Liqueur is one of those liqueurs that's drunk as an aperitif, a digestif, and for making fine cocktails. It is actually to strong to sip straight and is better on the rocks or with soda or a mixer. It goes very well with almost any juice, especially fresh squeezed and when paired with fresh citrus juice it really amps up the flavors tremendously.In 1849 Adolphe Cointreau a candy maker, and his brother Edouard-Jean, built a distillery in France. Then in 1875 Edouard Cointreau, son of Edouard-Jean took over running the distillery and created Cointreau. He said, "I have searched passionately for the quintessential flavour of Cointreau ; I wanted to combine crystal-clear purity with the subtlety of tastes made from the perfect blend of sweet and bitter orange peels." During the 1878 World's Fair Cointreau Liqueur was awarded it's first, but far from last, prize. There were many copiers of this original liqueur and they had to trademark it and then did something unheard of. Just a few years after the first public showing of a movie by the Lumière brothers, Cointreau developed a movie commercial produced by a Lumière technician and it is thought to be the first genuine commercial in the world.
|
Artical Related:
Liqueur Notes: Licor 43 "Cuarenta Y Tres" Liqueur
Liqueur Notes: Chambord Liqueur Royal de France
If C-3PO and Snap (of Crackle and Pop) had a love child
Houston Chronicle on Dunkin's French Toast Twist
Korean pine nuts can help curb appetite
