Cacao Blanc Liqueur

• White cacao liqueur made in Nuits-Saint-Georges in Burgundy, France, by Joseph Cartron
• Cacao beans sourced from small family farms on the Ivory Coast are lightly roasted and crushed in-country before being transferred to Nuits-Saint-Georges
• The cacao beans are combined with neutral sugar beet distillate, boiled lightly, and macerated for one day before the infusion is clarified; more cacao beans and alcohol are added and left to macerate for another day before the final infusion is distilled in a copper pot still
• The resulting “spirit of cacao” is blended with crystalized sugar beet sugar
• 24% ABV

A classic cacao blanc might best be known for it’s role in milkshake cocktails such as the Grasshopper and Pink Squirrel,  but it also shines as a complementary note to gin, tequila, bourbon, Scotch, and more; shaken or stirred applications are made complex without becoming cloying. Begin by trying Cartron’s exemplary cacao blanc in a 20th Century cocktail.