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Blackcurrant turned syrup, the one grown-up flavor that tastes like velvet and regret.
means A dark, sweet liqueur or syrup made from blackcurrants, used to flavor drinks like kir or crème de cassis cocktails.
from From French cassis, meaning blackcurrant, a word whose own roots are murky — possibly tied to Latin cassia (a fragrant plant bark unrelated botanically to the berry) or to older regional French terms for the shrub. By the 17th-18th centuries French monks and distillers in Burgundy were fortifying the tart berry into liqueur, and the name rode along with the syrup as it spread across Europe.
- origin
- French blackcurrant liqueur, mostly from Burgundy
- cocktail fame
- turns champagne into a kir royale
- flavor profile
- tart, musky, oddly like cat spray
- proof point
- usually low alcohol, around 15-20 percent