Liqueur de Rose (Rose) Edmond Briottet 18%

Wine information: Maison Briottet is a family business, founded in 1836. Originally, the family were primarily negociants of Burgundy wine, involved with ageing, blending, bottling and selling the wines. Following the development of the blanc cassis aperitif (white wine with Crème de Cassis), the company progressively focused its activities on producing fruit crèmes, liquors, brandies and marcs de Bourgogne. The current managing director, Gérard Briottet, represents the fourth generation, and maintains the tradition started by his great grandfather, Edmond Briottet. Maison Briottet maintains a very high level of quality. It is the selection of the ripest fruit from the most suitable cultivars that provides for the finest flavours; therefore contracting the right growers to produce the correct fruit is the first step on the ladder. Subsequently, properly 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 create these excellent crèmes and liqueurs. It was the Chinese who first used rose in cooking by making preserved rosebuds. The first cookery theoretician, the Roman Apicius, used to make rose wine. Widely used around the Mediterranean, its use spread through Europe during the Middle Ages following the return from the Crusades. At that time, rose water was served in all the lordly households for ablutions before and after the meal. Briottet Liqueur de Rose can be use with champagne or sparkling wine - pour a small amount into a champagne flute, add the champagne and garnish with a rose petal. Liqueur de rose can also be drunk as a digestif, on ice, in a frosted brandy glass.

 
     

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