Cointreau: What It Is and How to Use It. Kelly Magyarics, DWS, is a wine, spirits, cointreau, food and lifestyle writer and wine educator.
You bought a spirit or liqueur because a cocktail recipe called for a very minute amount. It is a key ingredient in some of the world’s most beloved cocktails yet often gets unfairly mixed up with other orange-flavored bottles. Cointreau’s production method is what gives it its heady yet relatively dry character, according to Dominic Alling, the brand ambassador for the spirit. It’s distilled with a blend of sweet and bitter orange peels and retains a high level of essential oils, resulting in an aromatic spirit that doesn’t require much additional sugar. It lends an extra boost to drinks incorporating jams or fruit purées, and its tinge of orange works well with herbs or spices in drinks.
The backbar at Nightmoves in Brooklyn is small, with just one type of alcohol in each category. Cointreau fills the orange liqueur niche. It’s also used as a stabilizer in the bar’s citrus solution, in which it’s mixed with acid, cane syrup and water and used for the bar’s forced carbonated draft cocktails such as the Sparkling Cosmopolitan. Zacks Investment Research from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report issued on Friday, Zacks. The company’s portfolio consists of Rémy Martin and Louis XIII cognacs, the Cointreau liqueur as well as the Metaxa, Mount Gay, St-Rémy, Bruichladdich, Port Charlotte, Octomore and The Botanist spirits. Remy Cointreau SA is headquartered in Cognac, France.