My favourite drink was the Coronation Variation, although the Apricot Brandy was just as delicious on its own.ĭeKuyper XO Apricot Brandy is avaialble for around £30 for 50cl from The Whisky ::' Copjr?i|hUfo r Shelf. From my research, I was also intrigued at how many of the drinks that I mixed seemed to be inspired by events of the 20’s and 30’s, a period of history that I have something of an affinity to. I found that using a fine product like DeKuyper XO Apricot Brandy made a huge difference to the more sophisticated cocktails. I’ve enjoyed having a look at this liqueur and the cocktails that you can use it in. When mixing this particular cocktail, I think it’s important to ensure that your Apricot Brandy isn’t too sweet. Without this and the bitters, it would be rather dull, but these allow its development into a very notable drink.
This is a wet Martini with an added complexity from the Apricot Brandy. This was a neat cocktail, where the importance of each individual ingredient is well felt.
To try and keep this great dry/sweet balance, I decided to use a homemade cocktail cherry. There is a stone-fruit aspect to the Calvados and its dryness balances well with the sweeter Apricot Brandy. All of these flavours were perfectly balanced in this drink, creating a smooth, easy-to-drink cocktail with a lot of character.Īnother Calvados and Apricot Brandy cocktail not that this is much of a surprise, given how well the two work together. This was a drink with a few different personality traits: warm, tart apple from the Calvados, bittersweet herbal notes from the vermouth, and an apricot jamminess from the Apricot Brandy. I also thought this had more personality and depth than your average Apricot Brandy. Sweet, but not too syrupy, this had a silky smooth texture it had the viscosity, sweetness and fruitiness of a liqueur, but combined with a dryer, more complex flavour of a fruit eaux-de-vie on the finish. After this, there’s the light flavour of grapes and a hint of oak from the underlying brandy. Taste: The flavour immediately fills your mouth: a great, fresh, succulent and jammy apricot, almost as if you have the flesh of the fruit in your mouth.
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Nose: Rich, jammy apricot, which reminds me of fresh apricot jam, plus a little hint of vanilla and hints of wood at the end. The apricots are blended with 10 year old Grande Champagne Cognac (Charente) and a Single Cask Pot Still Rum from Guyana.ĭeKuyper XO Apricot Brandy is bottled at 28% ABV. The liqueur uses untreated apricots from Turkey for extraction, as well as extracts of some famous apricot varieties: Rouge the Roussillon and the Bergeron from France. In terms of ingredients and its bottle, it is, indeed, luxurious. Thomas does, however, use Peach Brandy in a number of cocktails.Ībricota was another Apricot Liqueur (although seldom made with brandy) and Garnier made Abricotine, which included the flavour of almond in addition to apricot.ĭeKuyper XO Apricot Brandy follows on from the success of their XO Cherry Brandy and is designed to be “one of the finest Apricot Brandies in the world”. The 1862 edition of Jerry Thomas’ “How to Mix Drinks” or “The Bon Vivant’s Companion” provides recipes for Apricot Water and Apricot Ratafia (forebearers of modern Apricot liqueurs), as well as Brandy Apricots, but this seems to be more of a means of preserving the fruit than a way to produce liquid for consumption.
By the mid-1930s, books tended to include several cocktail recipes calling for this ingredient. spirit distilled from apricots), but it is very unusual for a cocktail recipe to call for this type and so this is not the focus of today’s post.Īpricot Brandy has been appearing in cocktail books since at least the beginning of the 20th Century, with brands such as Bols, Garnier and DeKuyper being specifically mentioned in books. Originally, brandy was used as the spirit, but, today, that is not necessarily the case, with the liqueur potentially being based on neutral grain spirit or vodka.Īpricot Brandy is also the term for Apricot Eaux-de-Vie (i.e. Apricot Brandy is a spirit infused with apricot flesh and kernels and added sugar.
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