Liqueur

Creme de cassis

Crème de cassis is a sweet, dark-red to deep-purple blackcurrant liqueur strongly associated with Burgundy and the city of Dijon in eastern France. Made by steeping blackcurrants (cassis) in spirit and sweetening heavily with sugar, it is bottled at a modest strength of roughly 15 to 20 percent alcohol by volume and is best known as the splash that turns a glass of white wine into a Kir, or sparkling wine into a Kir Royale.

Sweet17.5% ABV

At a glance

Signature

Blackcurrant & Fruity

Berry

Strength

Strong

17.5% ABV

Rich, sweet and syrupy, crème de cassis leads with an intense ripe-blackcurrant and berry-jam aroma carried on the fruit's distinctive musky, slightly green, blackcurrant-leaf tartness. The texture is thick and almost liqueur-jammy from the high sugar, the alcohol gentle for a liqueur at around 15 to 20 percent ABV, and the finish long, deeply fruity and sweet-tart with a faint berry-skin tannin.

Taste balance

SweetnessSweet

DrySweet

AcidityMedium

SoftTart

BitternessSmooth

SmoothBitter

StrengthMedium

LightStrong

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