Cointreau Fizz – the Summer Drink

Fill a glass with ice add Cointreau and the juice of half a lime. Top off with sparkling water. Drink and be refreshed. Move over Aperol, my new summer friend is Cointreau Fizz.

Cointreau Fizz

It’s a revelation to rediscover a drink that I only considered for use after dinner. Nice surprise, it’s versatile as an apéritif and digestif. Of course, you’ll already know it from a margarita, sidecar and cosmopolitan – as used in the “original” recipes.

As long as I can remember, we’ve always had a bottle in the house, whether it was tucked away under the stairs kept for Christmas or brought out to celebrate one of the great TV adverts of all time.

Who can forget the immortal “Cointreau has the warmth of the French. The ice has the cool of the English. Put them both together and the ice melts.”  It’s still got some fiery orange bite, perfectly chilled with the ice and sparkling water.

The triple distilled orange recipe is still secret from the 1850s, the square-sided bottle has never changed and the family is still involved six generations later. Oranges were rare in those days and the founder brothers, Edouard and Adolphe Cointreau, confectioners, wanted to branch our to create a unique and exotic liquer.

There have been many strong woman connected to the brand from Edouard’s wife, Louisa Cointreau, who looked after the business during war to the current  Master Distiller, Mdme Bernadette Langlais, and brand ambassador French actress and supermodel Laetitia Casta.

Cointreau fizz

“It’s both elegant and easy to make, with infinite possibilities to twist and infinite variations to take”

It’s a must in my bar – and we quite fancy ourselves in Brideshead Revisited garb: “We sat on sipping Cointreau.

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