Liqueur de Melon (Cantaloupe) Edmond Briottet

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. The "Cantaloup" melon, cultivated by Roman monks, was introduced into France, in c.1495, by an expedition of Charles VIII on returning from the Wars of Italy. Liqueur de Melon can be served as an aperitif or with desserts, alone or accompanied by champagne or white wine. Served chilled, it is excellent with sorbets, soups or fruit salads. Made exclusively from cavaillon melons, a type of charentais with smooth grey-green rinds and a very fragrant orange flesh. This liqueur has a heady, delicious aroma, sweet and slightly musky. On the palate it is light, sweet and fresh with a citrus tang to the melon flavour.

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