Creme de Cassis
⏳ Drinking Window
Best enjoyed chilled neat, over crushed ice, or as an aperitif modifier in cocktails such as a Kir or Kir Pétillant.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic Kir or Kir Royal with dry sparkling wine, poured over vanilla bean gelato, or paired alongside dark chocolate ganache tarts.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted through the slow cold maceration of ripe blackcurrants (Ribes nigrum) in neutral spirit, this traditional French fruit liqueur captures concentrated berry essences before fine filtration and blending with sugar. Free from artificial flavorings and unaged by design, it yields a viscous, deep-purple liqueur distinguished by pure tart dark fruit, bramble, and balanced sweetness.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1959 at the southern gateway of the Route des Vins d'Alsace, La Cave du Vieil-Armand takes its name from the legendary Hartmannswillerkopf peak, where local winegrowers united after the devastation of World War I to revive the region's historic slopes. Today, this cooperative unites approximately 75 to 80 winegrowing families managing roughly 150 hectares spread across the sub-Vosgian hills between Cernay and Guebwiller. Viticulture benefits from east-to-south exposures, sheltering Vosges microclimates, and diverse clay-limestone and marno-sandstone topsoils, prominently exemplified in the Grand Cru Ollwiller and the historical Château Ollwiller estate. Farmed under Haute Valeur Environnementale (HVE 3) guidelines with expanding certified organic parcels, the estate focuses on terroir-driven precision and purity of varietal fruit. Winemaking emphasizes gentle handling and temperature-controlled stainless steel vinification, yielding expressive dry bottlings, classic Crémant d'Alsace, and celebrated, botrytis-affected Gewurztraminer and Pinot Gris Vendanges Tardives and Sélections de Grains Nobles.
🍇 Base Material
None (produced from blackcurrants)
🍷 ABV
15%