Triple sec

Triple sec, originally Curaçao triple sec, is a type of strong, sweet and colorless orange-flavored liqueur. It is a variety of Curaçao liqueur, an orange-flavored liqueur made from the dried peels of bitter and sweet oranges.[2]

Triple sec
TypeLiqueur
Country of originFrance
Introduced19th century
Alcohol by volume15% to 40%[1]
ColorClear, golden, blue
FlavorOrange

"Sec" is the French word for dry. The etymology of the term "triple sec" is unclear.[2][3][4]

Triple sec may be consumed neat as a digestif, or on the rocks. However, it is more typically used as an ingredient in a variety of cocktails, such as sangria, Margarita, Kamikaze, White Lady, Long Island Iced Tea, Sidecar, Skittle Bomb, Corpse Reviver #2 and Cosmopolitan.

History

The Combier distillery claims that triple sec was invented in 1834 by Jean-Baptiste Combier in Saumur, France.[5] However, the Combier distillery was more famous for its élixir Combier, which contained orange but also many other flavorings.[6]

According to Cointreau, its orange liqueur was created in 1875.[4]

Triple sec was certainly widely known by 1878; at the Exposition Universelle of 1878 in Paris, several distillers were offering "Curaço [sic] triple sec", as well as "Curaço doux".[7]

See also

References
  1. "Triple Sec". Bar None Drinks. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  2. English, Camper. "Orange You Glad You Know This?". Fine Cooking. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  3. Dietsch, Michael. "The Serious Eats Field Guide to Orange Liqueur". Serious Eats. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  4. "Cointreau". Rémy Cointreau. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  5. "Original Combier". Combier. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
  6. "Les liquoristes saumurois" in Saumur jadis, anonymous Web publication at cites Richard Gasnier, Les liquoristes saumurois de 1830 à 1910, mém. de maîtrise, Angers, 2000, B. U. de l'U.C.O., 15 747 ; François Bouyssi et Isabelle Emeriau, "James Combier (1842–1917 ). Essai biographique...", S.L.S.A.S.,, 1992, pp. 46–89 ; Alain Mariez, "Un zeste d'orange, deux doigts d'ambition", L'Anjou, décembre 1995, pp. 70–77 ; Christelle Couvreux, Marie Bardisa, La Distillerie Combier. Saumur, Itinéraires du Patrimoine, 1999.
  7. The Lancet Analytical Commission, "Report on the Food Products exhibited in the French and English Departments of the Universal Exhibition of Paris", The Lancet, September 21, 1878, p. 417f.
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