Grand Brulot
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Distiller
Tardy Cognac
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Bottler
Tardy Cognac
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ABV
40%
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Age
NAS
- Price $30 to $59.99
Grand Brulot draws on a 200-year-old tradition of blending coffee with cognac, inspired by the Café Brûlot cocktail from early 19th-century New Orleans. Crafted by the Tardy family in France, it combines 51% VSOP cognac, aged four to five years and selected by fifth-generation cellar master Christoph Tardy, with 49% Ecuadorian Robusta coffee. The blend is aged in oak for an additional six months, yielding a liqueur that delivers the equivalent of one shot of espresso per serving.
- Raided Score: 92
- Wine Enthusiast
- But the palate delivers a wallop of booze, rounded out with bold black cherry, dark chocolate, vanilla and espresso, finishing with a flurry of cocoa and pulverized cinnamon bark.
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- Raided Score: 85
- Drinkhacker
- That said, I would like to have seen a stronger coffee influence here. In Grand Brulot, the coffee comes across more as a distinctly secondary element (and one which feels a bit overcooked).
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- Raided Score: 95
- Good Spirits News
- What makes it excel is a minute hint of sugar. This is more in line with a coffee liquor than a overly sweetened liqueur.
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- Raided Score: 88
- The Daily Pour
- This is one of the most interesting coffee liqueurs I've tried thus far, and it's no surprise that it makes a lively Espresso Martini.
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Nose:
Right away, I'm hit with a smack of coffee bean aroma, paired with undercurrents of cocoa, marzipan, peanuts, cherries and apricot.
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Taste:
The palate echoes — and amplifies — what's on the nose: black coffee, a roasted nuttiness and stone fruit. The cognac foundation rushes in soon after with raisin, dry oak and sweet toffee.
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Finish:
Milk chocolate, vanilla and aged brandy dominate the lengthy, spiced finish.
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Overall:
This is one of the most interesting coffee liqueurs I've tried thus far, and it's no surprise that it makes a lively Espresso Martini. Of course, enjoying it simply over ice is just as delightful!
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Score:
88
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