Post #293134 by DJ Terence Gunn on Mon, Mar 19, 2007 2:26 PM

On 2007-03-19 13:55, Ojaitimo wrote:
I forgot to mention that when I bought the bottle of Triple Sec at Beverages and More I spotted this bottle of Grand Chevalier by Gaetano and was told it is like Grand Marnier for about $13 instead of $35. for 750ml. I don't feel right about using expensive liquors for mixing so I picked up a bottle to try in mai tais after several of you mentioned you used GM in your mai tais. Close to the real deal at a third the price and quite nice.

[ Edited by: Ojaitimo 2007-03-19 14:03 ]

Very nice. Myself, I'd like to try that.

Basically when I provoked the whole orange liqueur throw-down, what I meant was that one needn't invest in expensive liqueurs, simply because the original recipe indicates so to do, when there are equally compatible good quality liqueurs at half the price. A great deal of wine drinkers could learn from this, as well.

Another issue is the 'All Natural Flavours'. Once again, who knows what the 'All Natural Flavours' are? Oranges, obviously. But what else? And from where? Though some labels give a run down of the traditional processing of the liqueur, there remains no ingredients list.

Have any of you TC'ers noticed the trend of '100% juice' posted on certain fruit juices -- frozen, cold, or room temperature? Yet when one examines the ingredients of these containers, one will often find apple and/or grape juice listed as a component -- even though the juice is marketed as Grapefruit Juice, Pineapple juice, or Pineapple Orange Juice, etc. I mention this as I don't think anybody is qualified (unless one works at one of the locations that make such liqueurs) to make a statement of what types of ingredients -- orange peels from a certain region, a certain type of oranges, etc -- are actually used to produce such liqueurs. Except when it comes to taste and price, we're all equally ignorant of such knowledge.

[ Edited by: DJ Terence Gunn 2007-03-19 14:27 ]