Liqueurs in cocktails
Originally, liqueurs were made with real, orchard-grown fruit.
Today, many popular brands gain their flavour from 'essences' - abstractions that may bear little or no relation to the original fruit. Waitrose spirits buyer Giles Fisher approached Gabriel Boudier, a family-owned producer established in 1874 and based in Dijon, France, to create four authentic liqueurs.
Boudier dusted off 19th-century recipes and reproduced vintage labels. Try these new classics on their own or mix the cocktails below; just shake all ingredients with ice and fine-strain into a chilled glass.