Crème de Cassis
Crème de cassis is a sweet French liqueur made from blackcurrants, offering a deep, jammy dark-berry flavour and a rich purple-red colour. It is best known as the modifier in the Kir and Kir Royale. Its concentrated fruitiness makes it a popular float or mixer in wine- and sparkling-based drinks.
Common uses
- modifier in wine or sparkling wine cocktails
- floated for colour and berry aroma
Buying & storage
Keeps more or less indefinitely: Alcohol is preserving it. An open bottle keeps for a very long time, though aromatics do fade slowly.
Storage: keeps well once opened, store upright away from light
In depth
Understanding crème de cassis
How it is made, where it comes from, what it pairs with, and how it behaves in an alcohol-free drink.
Origin
A French liqueur historically associated with Dijon, Burgundy.
Recipes
Cocktails containing this ingredient
Stand-in
Where crème de cassis is a recommended substitute
Recipes that name it as a swap for something else, with what it replaces.
- Chambord Royalein place of chambord
Swap it
Possible substitutions
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